Healing Garden

Non-A tarafından düzenlenen "Sleeping Beauty" serisinin ilk yarışması "Healing Garden" için 15 Ağustos 2026 tarihine kadar başvuru yapılabiliyor.

Participants are invited to design a buildable Healing Garden within the defined intervention area of Parco della Certosa.

The proposal should create a landscape environment that supports biodiversity, social interaction, and sensory experience, while respecting heritage constraints and the 60.000 EUR construction
budget.

The project should function as an urban prototype demonstrating how design can foster well-being and ecological regeneration.

What does it mean to design for healing?

This contest is part of the Sleeping Beauty – Nature Meets Bauhaus European project, which explores how Nature-Based Solutions inspired by the New European Bauhaus can transform underused cultural landscapes across Europe. The Healing Garden in Collegno represents the first pilot intervention within this network of six sites, contributing to a broader experimentation on regenerative, inclusive, and nature-based public spaces.

Collegno, in the metropolitan area of Turin, is home to the historic Certosa complex, a site shaped by memory and transformation. Once associated with institutional care and separation, it is now gradually opening to the city as a public landscape for cultural, social, and ecological life.

Within this context, the contest focuses on a green area inside Parco della Certosa with the potential to become a space for restoration and encounter.

Participants are invited to design a buildable Healing Garden, not as decoration, but as an environment that supports physical, psychological, social, and ecological well-being.

The proposal should act as a real urban prototype, showing how landscape design can contribute to regeneration, inclusion, and environmental resilience.

The brief builds on stakeholder workshops, a public survey, and spatial-emotional mapping conducted with park users.

Contest Theme & Design Considerations

Design a Healing Garden in Parco della Certosa, creating a buildable space for care, inclusion, and ecological renewal within a defined site and budget.

The Healing Garden should function as a prototype for regenerative urban landscapes, demonstrating how New European Bauhaus–inspired Nature-Based Solutions (NEB–NbS) can enhance biodiversity, well-being, and social inclusion in ways that can be replicated or adapted in other public spaces.

Participants are invited to define the main character of the garden. The project may focus on sensory immersion, biodiversity restoration, social gathering, education, contemplation, or a balanced combination of these dimensions.

Ask yourself: What kind of healing is needed here? Is it about reconnecting people with nature? Strengthening community bonds? Supporting mental well-being? Reviving ecological diversity?

The landscape, together with architectural elements such as structures, forms, materials, colors, and spatial compositions, should express these intentions and shape the identity and atmosphere of the garden.

The Healing Garden is the first of six design contests taking place across the Sleeping Beauty pilot sites, each exploring innovative approaches to regenerative public space through Nature-Based Solutions and New European Bauhaus values.

Project Requirements

Participants are invited to design a buildable Healing Garden within Parco della Certosa that enhances biodiversity, accessibility, and social well-being, while respecting heritage constraints and the construction budget.

The project should be conceived as a small but impactful landscape intervention, capable of transforming the character of the intervention area through spatial design, vegetation, and selected built elements.

Main Program Elements:

● Biodiverse Healing Landscape
● Accessible Paths & Spatial Journey
● Spaces for Rest, Reflection, and Social Interaction
● Buildable Landscape or Architectural Element

Calendar

15 April 2026: Registration OPENS

15 July 2026 (11.59 PM): Registration CLOSES

15 May 2026: Q&A Deadline*

15 July 2026: Submissions OPENS

15 August 2026 (11.59 PM): Submission CLOSES

28 September – 2 Oct.ober 2026: Winner announcement

Prizes

Winner (1 Prize)*: 7500 EUR to further develop the project. The winning proposal will serve as the basis for the realization of the Healing Garden. The prize will be awarded as a compensation fee to further develop the design for construction in collaboration with the Municipality and project partners.

Honourable Mentions (9 Prizes): Selected projects will be published on the Non-a contests website, gaining international visibility within our global community.

FIisnalists (Up to 20 Prizes): Finalist proposals will be featured on the Non-a contests website, showcasing outstanding ideas and design excellence.

Special Prize: Additional special prizes and recognitions may be introduced during the contest and evaluation process, highlighting exceptional approaches and innovative contributions.

Jury

• Paola Granero, Architect | Studio Gonnet

• Marco Allocco, Environmental Expert | SeaCoop

• MMag. Dr. Gudrun Haindlmaier, Senior Scientist, Center for Innovation Systems & Policy. Project Coordinator of Sleeping Beauty

• Prof. Arch. Mag. arch. Silja Tillner, Architect & Urban Planner, Architekten Tillner & Willinger ZT GmbH. Professor at Politecnico di Milano

• Municipality of Collegno, Institutional Representative

• Zona Ovest di Torino, Territorial Partnership Representative

• Orto che Cura, Social and Community Representative | Social Cooperative Il Margine

• Sleeping Beauty’s Gender, Generations and Diversity Board (GGDB), Territorial Partnership Representative