CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OPENED 23rd MARCH 2007

The Hadspen Garden Competition is open. If you wish to enter the Competition please see the information below.

Anonymous Submission

• The first stage of the Competition is anonymous, and open to all
• To register your wish to enter please send an email to: anonymous.hadspen@btinternet.com
• Your email should state only your intention to enter the competition, your name, address, email and daytime telephone number
• A reply will be sent within 5 working days confirming receipt, and allocating each competition entry a pseudonym. Pseudonyms will be chosen at random from The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Manguel and Guadalupi
• You may enter as a team. Please give the names of all team members when applying for a pseudonym
• Each individual is strictly limited to participation in two entries, whether on their own or as part of a team, or teams
• If you have not received confirmation within 5 working days you should contact teresa.cash@btinternet.com
• No-one directly involved with the judging process will have access to your true identity until the initial shortlist has been finalised

Entry

• The final deadline for entries is 5.00pm on Thursday 2nd August 2007
• Competitors are asked to submit on one printed sheet, in A3 format. The submission should not be printed on card, should not be laminated, or laminated onto card: the organisers must be able to photocopy sheets for distribution to judges. Only hard copies are eligible for submission. Please supply 2 copies of your entry.
• The sheet should display any assemblage of words and images that evoke the competitor’s concept for the Parabola Garden. It should include an explanatory statement of a maximum of 300 words in English. The submission sheet should include no more than 350 words (including the explanatory statement) in total
• At this stage a submission needs only to convey a powerful imaginative response to the possibilities of the site. The judges will examine the practicalities of delivery and management in the next stage of the Competition
  
• Neither examples of previous work by the applicant, nor specific planting proposals for the Parabola, will be accepted
• Your entry sheet should be marked clearly at the top right hand with your entry pseudonym. Plese do NOT attach any other form of identification to the entry
• Applicants are responsible for obtaining permission, as necessary, to use any copyrighted text or images incorporated in their submission sheet. Any copyright acknowledgement of this kind should be handwritten on the reverse of the submission sheet; no other information may appear on the reverse of the sheet
• Entries should be posted, or delivered by hand, to: The Hadspen Parabola Competition, c/o The Assistant to the Director, The Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7LB. NB your envelope, or mailing tube, should also be clearly marked to the left of your address label with your entry pseudonym
• The Museum of Garden History is open from 10.30am to 5.00pm Tuesday to Sunday. There will be nobody at the Museum to receive hand delivered submissions on Mondays
• Hand delivered submissions will be given a receipt by the The Museum of Garden History
• You will be sent an email confirming the arrival of your entry. If you have not received this email within 14 days of dispatch by first class mail (or overseas equivalent), please contact teresa.cash@btinternet.com

Additional Information

• Candidates are required to study the following before entering their submission:

• A New Walled Garden at Hadspen (a summary of project progress and website correspondence)
• A survey of the Hadspen Parabola Site The pdf scale is 1:1000, which fits on A3 in portrait
• A PDF of the Foreign Office Architects 2006 project for the garden, corrected but not amended FOA Revised Walled Garden Plan. (For the status of this project within the overall competition please refer to A New Walled Garden at Hadspen)

• There will be a series of open days at Hadspen for those planning to enter the competition. These will be on the first Sunday of May, June and July, (6th May, 3rd June, 1st July). There will be two further Open Days on Friday the 20th July and Sunday the 22nd of July. The garden will be open from 10.00am until 5.00pm. Entry will be through the Back Drive of the Hadspen Estate, off the A359, following the County Council signage. Please park in the car park at the garden and feel free to explore inside and outside the Parabola. Please respect the obviously private areas of the garden and Estate. For further information go to Hadspen Open Days

• We are anxious not to compromise the anonymity of entrants; nobody directly involved in the judging process will be in or near the garden on Open Days

• During July 2007 it is proposed that the The Museum of Garden History will hold an exhibition and public events based on the Competition process

• A further exhibition of submissions, shortlisted entries and winners may be held in early 2008

Judging of initial submissions

• From the 6th August, in a ‘rolling’ process that we expect to complete by mid-September, the experts closely involved with the genesis of the project, and subsequent website correspondence, will be invited to see and comment on each submission. These commentators will include the four final panel participants named below. We will post a list in due course, and update it from time to time.

Next Stages

• All entrants will be contacted by the end of September with the result of their submission

• The judges’ decision are final; no further feedback on the entry will be given to candidates who are not shortlisted

• Copyright of all submissions will remain the property of the originator(s) (as identified on our database from your original email application).

• Submission sheets will not be returned to entrants, but retained at Hadspen as part of the Project archive. They may be reproduced or exhibited by the organisers only in the exclusive context of the Hadspen Parabola. In addition to the 2008 exhibition mentioned above, a number of magazines have asked for the opportunity to publish a selection of the submissions after July 31st 2007. We intend to post all the shortlisted entries on the website in the Autumn.

• We would appreciate it if entrants kept a file copy of their submission electronically.

• The anonymity of all projects will be preserved unless permission is sought by the organisers for publication or exhibition under the originators’ names

• An initial shortlist of candidates will then be asked for further information, including portfolios, CVs, and a brief statement about what they feel they could contribute to the project, and how

• A final shortlist will be developed by late Autumn

• The candidates on the final shortlist will be offered a fee to develop a detailed proposal that they will present to the full panel of judges at formal interview in early 2008

• 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. A photograph of this model is available at Hadspen in Pictures

• The composition of the panel of judges for the final interviews remains in part a question of timing and availability. There will be an uneven number of members; Niall Hobhouse will be Chair. Victoria Glendinning, John Hubbard, Patrick Kinmonth and Richard Sennett will definitely participate

• Further information on the composition of the final panel will be posted on the website in due course. We still favour a panel composed of non-professional gardeners, each with international reputations in other creative fields

QUERIES ON HOW TO ENTER THE COMPETITION ONLY SHOULD BE SENT TO anonymous.hadspen@btinternet.com