Galleria virtuale di arte climatica immersiva

Introduction
Multiverz, a social impact enterprise, and the City of Portoviejo (Ecuador) plan to develop an international virtual gallery of climate art to promote climate awareness and smart tourism. The project hopes to engage with students, virtual reality enthusiasts, designers, and digital artists worldwide to establish the gallery. The gallery should offer an immersive experience to evoke a sense of wonder and spark the viewer's imagination while sharpening perceptions of climate change.

This competition solicits ideas for creating designs for an exceptional virtual art gallery that can then be implemented with the help of technology and art enthusiasts from around the world. The proposals should offer an overall architectural design, concepts of innovative spaces within the gallery, and the experiential display of art objects. The concepts and designs should be accompanied by advice on the technology platforms that could be considered for implementing the idea. The project designs should be modular and accompanied by recommendations on how they could be subsequently divided into modules/subprojects to allow multiple teams to collaborate in making the virtual gallery come to life.

Description and Scope
The virtual gallery could be initially conceptualized over 45,000 sq ft of virtual floor space, with flexibility for future expansion.

The gallery should have an iconic design. See, for example, Dubai's Museum of the future: https://tinyurl.com/y7l26etv. Also plans for Liberland: https://tinyurl.com/y82f97xd. The gallery should be designed as a series of interconnected spaces that could display static, dynamic, and immersive art submissions. The designs should be original and unique and should not infringe upon any intellectual property rights held by any individual or entity.

Selection criteria
The designs will be evaluated on the following criteria:
The overall design of the gallery: 20%
Quality of the various elements of the gallery for experiential impact: 40%
Suggestions on technology platforms and the modularization of spaces that could be developed as sub-projects: 20%
Creativity: 20%

Schedule
March 18, 2022 launch of the competition
April 12, 2022 Deadline for design submissions
April 19: Evaluation and awards

Submission guidelines
Deliverables
1. Brief description of the concept (maximum 250 words)
2. Plan view, on an appropriate scale
3. Section elevations on an appropriate scale
4. Perspective/Axonometric views:
(I) interior free perspective/axonometric views that best capture the design
(ii) additional digital materials such as animations and VR are optional.
(iii) 3D model for immersive presentations to evaluate the design.
5. Submitted images shall not identify names of individuals, firms, or organizations.

The objective is to conceptualize an iconic virtual gallery of climate art that can help teams to collaborate and bring to life.

The designs should be developed with a view to establishing the gallery in the metaverse.