Designing energy and water systems for a changing climate.
Ligavatuvuce (Hands that Offer and Uplift), a winning submission by Young Kang incorporates solar photovoltaic, rainwater harvesting with biofiltration, and gravity-fed distribution to produce 120 MWh of electricity and 4.5 million liters of filtered water each year. A submission to LAGI 2025 Fiji, which was held in collaboration with the
Village of Marou.
Coastal island communities are especially vulnerable to climate change. Stronger cyclones, rising sea levels, warming waters, biodiversity loss, prolonged droughts, and major flood events threaten their existence.
Marou Village in the Yasawa archipelago of Fiji is one such community.
The residents of Marou Village and LAGI partnered to co-create a unique design competition. Together we invited the world to design a work of art in the landscape to supply clean and reliable electricity and drinking water to the coastal village’s 67 households, support tourism, and help to build a sustainable future for generations to come.
Can a small island community—through art, innovation, and co-design—demonstrate what’s possible for sustainable infrastructure across the Pacific and beyond?
In 2025, the Village of Marou and the Land Art Generator Initiative invited the world to imagine how renewable energy and water systems could be co-designed for people and place. The response was extraordinary—205 submissions from 45 countries.
Two winning teams have been selected and will receive $100,000 USD to develop and construct working prototypes in Fiji, demonstrating their solutions in real-world conditions. Dozens of additional submissions will be featured in a full-color hardbound book and exhibited across Fiji in 2025 and 2026.
Explore the innovations, meet the jurors, and follow the journey as LAGI 2025 Fiji becomes a model for community-led climate infrastructure.
Lagi has a special meaning in the Pacific Islands.
It means sky or universe —
and when combined as vakalomalagi means heaven — evoking feelings of hope and harmony.
LAGI 2025 Fiji has been
co-created with Marou Village,
a community on the southeast coast of Naviti Island in the
Yasawa Group archipelago in the Western Ba Region of Fiji,
to secure a future in harmony with nature.
In partnership with
The Village of Marou
