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Echoes of the Land: Narrative Playscapes
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Echoes of the Land: Narrative Playscapes

Maui Public Art Corps

April 7, 2026Maui County, Hawaii

This major civic initiative is a quintessential example of trauma-informed environmental commissioning, seeking multidisciplinary design teams to create permanent, story-grounded playscape installations in public parks. It explicitly invites teams to integrate salvaged timber from the devastating 2023 wildfires, transforming charred detritus into sites of intergenerational play, rest, and story...

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Funding for permanent, story-grounded playscape installations in public parks. Opportunity to integrate salvaged timber from wildfires, creating intergenerational land-based spaces. Profound exercise in ecological mourning and circular material economies.

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Open to established artists and multidisciplinary design teams, including landscape architects and structural engineers. The initiative invites teams to integrate salvaged timber and stumps recovered from the devastating 2023 wildfires in Lahaina and Kula.

Dates & details

Deadline
11:59 pm HST
Programme dates
Permanent installations
Duration
Permanent installation
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$1.5 million total budget ($500,000 per site)

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