The Walled Garden is now empty; please see Hadspen in Pictures.

• The first stage of the Competition will be anonymous, and open to all.

• A formal call for submissions will be made via the website to everyone registered on the site in the late spring of 2007.

• There will be a series of open days (announced on the website) after this date for anybody who wishes to come to the garden.

• Competitors will be asked to submit on a single sheet in A3 format. The system for anonymity will be explained at the time of the formal submissions.
  

• The sheet should consist of any assemblage of words and images that evoke their concept for the Parabola Garden. It should include an explanatory statement of a minimum of 150 words.

• At this stage, neither examples of previous work by the applicant, nor planting proposals for the Parabola, will be accepted.

• The submissions will be circulated amongst those who have been most involved with the development of the project.

• An initial shortlist of candidates will then be compiled who will be asked for further information.

Without wanting to prejudge what happens then, we possibly envisage:

Stage Two: Asking the initial shortlist for portfolios, CVs, and a brief statement about what they feel they could contribute to the project. Judging mechanisms to be determined. We can then move forward to a very much shorter shortlist (5 or 6, say).

Stage Three: The candidates on this final shortlist would be paid to develop a detailed planting proposal which they would present at interview to the formal jury. Composition of this jury to be announced.

We are currently building a model of the larger site; this will have an inset element that represents the Walled Garden alone. The inset will be distributed to the final shortlist candidates, and should form part of their interview submission.

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