The award seeks to stimulate proposals that articulate art and architecture for the benefit of the City and its inhabitants, through a contemporary language in their works.

Rainmakers is a sculpture consisting of a wooden ring of 5 meters of diameter and 1.5 of width. The piece is in contact with water in its lower part and it’s designed to dialogue with landscape as a sculpture. As a result of its connection to water, it produces rain when people walk in it. Miler Lagos practice gravitates towards consciousness on the conservation of the environment. Not only he denounces human’s action negative impact on nature, but also reflects on the scientific side of the elements that define landscape. Connection to water plays a main role here in Rainmakers. Water’s energy features serves the artist to comment on the idea of vital energy, also known as prana by Hindis, chi in China, ki by Japanese, ka in Egypt or divine breath in Christian religion. The sculptural nature of the work and becoming part of landscape, defines an additional line of reflection, that is, interaction between culture and nature. Highlighting the potential positive impact by humans through culture counteracts the critique on the damage caused by big corporations. There’s also a kinetic and interactive part in Rainmakers. Audience may activate it. Furthermore than a mechanical relationship, it is the individual’s energy that portraits the energy flux from a human being to nature, and through water.