Memorial to the Sixth Extinction – An Open International Ideas Competition is open for submissions. Full details can be found at this link Sixth Extinction document FINAL
TCL, through the Kevin Taylor Legacy, is proud to be collaborating with the Australian Urban Design Research Centre and The University of Western Australia’s School of Design on the Memorial to the Sixth Extinction.
This competition was conceived by and is held in memory of Richard J. Weller (1963– 2025), designer, author, and emeritus Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Richard was also a professor and former director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre at the University of Western Australia, the host of this competition.
This open international ideas competition invites designers, students, artists and thinkers to imagine a physical memorial to one of the defining conditions of our time: a global extinction event that is happening now, across species, landscapes and systems.
The brief asks how design might give form to something planetary, ongoing and difficult to see in its full scale. A memorial that does not need to remember the past, but instead asks us to look more carefully at the present.
Open to entrants worldwide, the competition invites conceptual rigour, research, novelty and ingenuity in responding to the idea of a memorial to the sixth extinction.
Submission deadline: 1 November 2026, 11:59 pm AWST
Prize pool: $15,000 AUD
Who Can Enter
The Memorial to the Sixth Extinction Ideas Competition is an open international competition. Entries are accepted from students or professionals worldwide. We anticipate most entrants will come from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and fine arts, although we welcome entries from other relevant disciplines. We encourage multidisciplinary teams of up to six participants.
The Memorial to The Sixth Extinction Competition is funded by the Kevin Taylor Legacy, a creative grant in memory of Kevin Taylor, one of Australia’s leading landscape architects and hosted by the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) and the University of Western Australia’s School of Design. The grant program was established in 2014 by the multi-award-winning Australian landscape architecture firm, T.C.L.
Competition Link – https://www.audrc.org/competitions
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