Share Prize 2012 – THE SHORTLIST

October 8, 2012 4:44 pm

Share Festival is upon us!

Open Your City is the guiding theme for the Share Festival 2012. A theme that contains three key, simple and direct words, the pillars on which this year’s festival programme will be built. ‘Open Your City’ will also provide the blueprint for this year’s Share Prize.

Open is meant in the sense of being in the making, of being unfinished, experimental, transparent and boundless.

Your is meant as the direct participation of people who possess, own, use, occupy and command something that belongs to them. It identifies the person who plays a leading role in driving change—someone who takes action, steps in and gets involved; someone who makes plans, collaborates, transforms, brings together and acts as part of a community.

City is meant as the venue or theatre of action; it is the common good, the backdrop to changes underway. An urban space abuzz with social and technological ferment, made up of streets and roads, squares and parks and everyday locations.

Answering the call with great enthusiasm, more than 200 artists sent in their submissions for Share Prize 2012.
The jury, consisting of Simona Lodi, Mirjam Struppek, Bruce Sterling and Carlo Ratti, has selected the six finalists that will be presented from 30 October to 11 November 2012 at the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin:

Jonathan Baldwin , Tidepools, 2011

Julian Koschwitz, On Journalism #2 Typewriter, 2012

Mariano Leotta, SYN, 2011

Mark Shepard, The Sentient City Survival Kit, 2010

Stanza, Capacities Life In The Emergent City, 2009

VR/Urban, SMSlingshot, 2009

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