Engineers and artists may not be the peanut butter and jelly of the working world, but the City of Vancouver is hoping to strike some magic by bringing the two fields together through a new program.
The City's Engineering department has an open call for applicants for an Artist in Residence program.
Basically what the CoV is looking for is for the artists to do their creative thing, and come up with executable ideas.
The Main St. Poodle (Photo: Rachel Topham via City of Vancouver)
“We are really looking forward to opening our doors to someone with a completely different world view, to come in behind the scenes and reshape, explore, and create based on what they discover here,” says Jerry Dobrovolny, General Manager of Engineering for the City of Vancouver. “We hope that an artist can find inspiration from the variety of work that we do, from geometrics to fluid dynamics to pouring a great concrete slab.”
With an aim of bringing on three artists on board for a series of consecutive 18-month terms, the City hopes the experience will net new "public art within the City’s operations, facilities and capital construction projects," according to the call for applications.
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"The artist will also identify opportunities for temporary and future artworks that interact with ideas and practices of city planning, infrastructural development, engineering operations and sustainability."
The application period is open until November 24, 2017, and more details are available online via the City.
Previously, Vancouver has had similar programs for artists in residence in Parks and Sustainability.
