The challenges of architecture are "best explored through the production of media" says Liam Young

Architectural ideas can best be realised through imagery and movies rather than buildings, according to architect Liam Young, who is head judge of the Dezeen Awards media categories this year.

"I think the challenges that architecture faces today are sometimes best explored through the production of media," said Young.

"Media is so powerful in shaping who we are," he added, speaking to Dezeen from his studio in Los Angeles. "The onus is on us to create the right kinds of stories and to launch them with such force that they find traction."

Young will oversee the judging of the five media categories, which will reward photography, video, visualisations and websites across the industry.

"The sorts of projects I would be looking to support and reward in that context would be projects that use media as a way to share important ideas about who we are, the world that we live and the world that we want to live in," Young explained.

"The scale of the audience of Dezeen is undeniable"

Now in their second year, the Dezeen Awards media categories will reward excellence in the way architecture, interiors and design are communicated and promoted. Media categories are just £40 during early entry period which closes 30 March. Prices will go up to £100 in the late entry period between 2 and 8 June.

"I think if we value the ideas and projects that we're producing it's our responsibility to find ways that we can best connect those projects to audiences and the scale of the audience of Dezeen is undeniable," explained Young.

"Dezeen Awards shouldn’t be seen as just a mechanism for advertising yourself but rather, it should be seen as a platform to connect people with ideas that you think are important."

Liam Young's Planet City is a fictional city for Earth's entire population

Young is a Los Angeles-based speculative architect and director who uses visual arts, filmmaking and fiction to imagine new futures.

He is co-founder of Tomorrow's Thoughts Today, an urban futures think tank that explores the implications of new technologies, and Unknown Fields, a nomadic research studio that travels to chronicle these emerging conditions.

Regulation is "critical tool" for diversification

According to the BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, regulation is a critical tool when thinking about diversifying platforms.

"Unregulated media platforms has produced not a diversity of possibilities, but a very small network of monopolies," he said.

Young recently spoke about the opportunities and threats posed by the rise of the metaverse [link] on a panel organised by Dezeen with speakers Refik Anadol and Space Popular as part of NeueHouse Hollywood's programming during the Frieze Los Angeles art fair.

"Being responsible and mindful of the power of stories is important, making sure we're telling the right kinds of stories for today, stories that are relevant and critical and meaningful, not stories that are just designed to entertain or sell us things," said Young.

"If we understand that the act of making a building requires understanding the rules of materials, and the laws of physics and the conditions of a site, so too does media," described Young.

"It has rules that govern it, it has a material substrate that we work within, it has site conditions."

We now "measure time in apocalypses"

Young feels that we’re living in a dystopia with no time to reflect. "We're at a point where we now measure time in apocalypses," says Young. "Events that we once thought were once in a generation are now happening on a weekly or monthly basis."

"The power that media can play in mitigating and offering alternatives to these disastrous conditions that we find ourselves in is really important and cannot be underestimated," he added.

"Although the media landscape is owned by a small number of monopolies it's accessible and relatively easy to carve out a space within it."

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Blockchain technology has the potential to create a substantial shift in systems of power, according to Young. This digital system is a type of shared database that stores information in blocks that are linked together in chronological order by cryptography.

"The potential of blockchain systems to create entirely new social structures and economic structures is without question," said Young.

Young's Planet City would be made from recyclable materials

For the first time this year, you can enter Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for the Dezeen Awards 2022 visualisation of the year media category.

NFTs are cryptographic funds that exist on a blockchain system. These assets cannot be replicated and can depict objects such as artwork.

"If I were to see NFT inspired projects coming through the media submissions I would love that they're questioning the medium and trying to be reflective on the real potential for change," encouraged Young.

Young has held guest professorships at Princeton University, MIT, and Cambridge and now runs the masters in fiction and entertainment at SCI Arc in Los Angeles.

He has published several books including the recent Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene and Planet City, a story of a fictional city for the entire population of the earth.

Besides the media categories, there are three sustainability categories, 33 project categories as well as six categories for the best studios. See all the categorieshere.

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Liam Young and Katie Treggiden are head judges for Dezeen Awards 2022 sustainability and media categories

Filmmaker and architect Liam Young and sustainable design expert Katie Treggiden will lead the judges for the Dezeen Awards 2022 sustainability and media categories.

The three sustainability categories will reward buildings, interiors and designs that strive to reduce their impact on people and the planet.

The five media categories will reward excellence in the way architecture, interiors and design are communicated and promoted.

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Liam Young is the Dezeen Awards 2022 media head judge

Speculative filmmaker Young joins us this year as head judge for the Dezeen Awards 2022 media categories.

The media categories award the best architecture photography, video and visualisations plus websites for studios and brands. The categories will reward mastery in digital communication across the industry.

"It's our responsibility as designers if we value the ideas that we're trying to put into the world, that we explore all the mechanisms of media as a way to disseminate our ideas more widely," Young said to Dezeen.

Australian-born film director and architect Young works within the boundaries of architecture, film, storytelling and fiction. He is co-founder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today, an urban futures think tank exploring the local and global implications of new technologies and Unknown Fields, a nomadic research studio.

Young is also a BAFTA-nominated producer and has worked with platforms including Channel 4, TED, SxSW, the New York Metropolitan Museum, The Royal Academy, the BBC and The Guardian.

Katie Treggiden is the Dezeen Awards 2022 sustainability head judge

For the second year, environmental author Treggiden will head up the judging panel for the sustainability categories. The environmental design writer, author and speaker champions a circular approach to craft and design.

Our three sustainability categories celebrate studios that are making positive environmental and social contributions. These projects will be judged by a selected panel of sustainability experts from the world of architecture and design.

Last year Treggiden told Dezeen: "As such an influential platform, it's important for Dezeen to take the lead on issues such as this."

Treggiden has written five books, established an award-winning blog and an independent magazine, and has written for The Guardian, Viewpoint, Design Milk, Crafts Magazine, Elle Decoration and Monocle24.

She is the founder and first president of women's network Bloom and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a trustee of the Leach Pottery.

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Our three sustainability categories celebrating projects that make positive environmental and social contributions are now open for entries.

Each of the five media categories costs just £50 to enter. Enter before 1 June to avoid paying a late entry fee of £100.

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Rossana Hu, Stefano Boeri and Fabio Novembre join Dezeen Awards 2022 jury

Chinese architect Rossana Hu will be joined by Italian architect Stefano Boeri, architect and designer Fabio Novembre, curator Alia Al-Senussi and co-founder of The Decorators Mariana Pestana to judge the fifth edition of Dezeen Awards.

Dezeen Awards is open for entries until 8 June, with discounted entry fees available until 30 March. Enter now to save money!

Now in its fifth year, the programme has become the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere, with winners selected by a prestigious panel of international judges.

Read on for the second out of seven announcements in which we will reveal the 93 industry professionals who will be judging your entries this year.

Architect Tosin Oshinowo is a Dezeen Awards 2022 judge

Judging the architecture categories this year is Italian architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri, known for his vertical forests and new book Green Obsession.

Joining him is Nigerian architect and CM Design Atelier founder Tosin Oshinowo (pictured), and Mexican architect Rozana Montiel of Estudi de Arquitectura.

Also on the panel is Joseph Henry, urbanist and co-host of architecture diversity platform Sound Advice, who is also ambassador to the London School of Architecture and advisor to urban research group Theatrum Mundi.

Architect and designer Fabio Novembre is a Dezeen Awards 2022 judge

Italian architect and designer Fabio Novembre is also a judge for Dezeen Awards 2022, alongside French-Canadian designer Willo Perron of Perron-Roettinger.

They are joined by Portuguese architect Marianna Pestana, who co-founded London-based collective The Decorators and works to improve spaces in the public realm through multidisciplinary interventions.

Architect and co-founder of Neri&Hu Rossana Hu is a Dezeen Awards 2022 judge

Rossana Hu is a Chinese architect and co-founder of multidisciplinary architecture studio Neri+Hu. The Shanghai-based practice won architecture studio of the year at Dezeen Awards 2021.

Joining her is Polina Sandström of Swedish architecture and interior design practice ASKA.

Also on the panel is Vincent De Graaf of Chinese studio Aim Architecture, and Li Xiang of architectural design studio X+Living.

Alia Al-Senussi is a Dezeen Awards 2022 judge

Judging the design categories at Dezeen Awards 2022 is princess Alia Al-Senussi. Al-Senussi grew up between Egypt and America, and now works with art institutions around the world to help achieve social change through art.

She is joined by Dezeen Awards 2021 emerging studio of the year winners Priyanka Sharma and Dushyant Bansal of Studio Raw Material. The India-based duo creates furniture and objects from marble offcuts.

Architect and furniture designer Moran Munyuthe is a Dezeen Awards 2022 judge.

Also on the panel is Argentinian graphic designer Mario Eskenazi, whose studio is based in Barcelona.

Joining him is Kenyan architect and furniture designer Moran Munyuthe of Saba Studios. Munyuthe works with local craftsmen on Lamu Island to create handmade contemporary furniture informed by Swahili design.

Dezeen Awards 2022 will be judged by a panel of 93 industry-leading professionals. The media and sustainability categories will have their own judging panels, which will be announced soon.

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Sou Fujimoto, Benedetta Tagliabue and Paula Scher named judges for Dezeen Awards 2022

The first 15 judges for Dezeen Awards 2022 have been announced and include architects Sou Fujimoto and Benedetta Tagliabue, industrialist Alberto Alessi and visual artist Charlotte Taylor.

Dezeen Awards is open for entries until 8 June, with discounted entry fees available until 30 March.

Now in its fifth year, the programme has become the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere, with winners selected by a prestigious panel of international judges.

Read on for the first out of seven announcements, in which we will reveal the 93 industry professionals who will be judging your entries this year.

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is a judge

Japanese architect Fujimoto will be judging the architecture categories for the fifth edition of Dezeen Awards.

Joining him is Italian architect Tagliabue, who co-founded international studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT in 1994, now Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT.

Zahira Asmal is an urbanist whose work addresses inequality in South Africa. She founded The City, a research and placemaking agency based in Cape Town, and is also on the architecture panel at Dezeen Awards 2022.

Architect and Groupwork founder Amin Taha will be judging the architecture categories

Amin Taha is an architect and educator who founded Groupwork: an employee ownership trust of architects based in London.

He will be on the architecture jury this year alongside Assemble co-founder Paloma Strelitz, who has recently launched sustainable workplace startup Patch.

Joining them is Gonzalo Hererro Delicado, an architect, educator and curator whose work explores connections between ecology and digital culture through architecture, art and design.

Interior designer and visual artist Charlotte Taylor is on the interiors jury this year

The work of London-based visual artist and interior designer Charlotte Taylor spans both physical and digital realms.

She's judging the interior categories alongside Harry Nuriev, founder of Moscow-based interior and design firm Crosby Studios.

Nthabi Taukobong is judging the interior categories

Father and son Sanjay and Sanchit Arora are the founder and head architect of Renesa, an architecture and interior design studio based in New Delhi.

Joining them on the interiors jury is interior designer Nthabi Taukobong, founder of Ditau Interiors in Johannesburg.

Also on the panel are Alex Holloway and Na Li, who founded the London-based interior practice Holloway Li in 2015.

Paula Scher will be judging design categories for Dezeen Awards 2022.

Judging the design categories this year is globally acclaimed graphic designer Paula Scher. Scher has been a principal of international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991.

She is joined by Alberto Alessi, director of renowned Italian homeware design company Alessi.

Also on the panel are multimedia artist Rosey Chan, and Rolf Hay of Danish contemporary furniture brand Hay, which he founded with his wife Mette in 2002.

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Dezeen Awards 2021 sustainability category winners revealed

The three winning sustainability projects for Dezeen Awards 2021 have been revealed as a recycling centre that features 700 repurposed windows, a restaurant made from upcycled junk and a collection of tiles made of glass from discarded microwaves.

The sustainability categories were newly introduced this year to recognise the efforts of architects and designers who are putting sustainability at the forefront of their practice.

While all projects entered into Dezeen Awards are judged on how beneficial they are to people and the planet, the sustainability awards aim to highlight projects that focus on sustainability above all else, at every level of the design process.

There were 357 entries for the sustainability categories at this year's Dezeen Awards, which are sponsored by Dodds & Shute. Of these, 15 were shortlisted by a panel of sustainability experts. After this, the sustainability master jury met virtually to ratify the winners.

The master jury for the sustainability awards includes Nick Shute of Dodds & Shute, environmental design writer and speaker Katie Treggiden, Seetal Solanki of Ma-tt-er, interior designer Simon Hamilton, Lay Koon Tan of Nature Squared and Taiwanese architect Arthur Huang

The sustainability categories are the latest accolades to be announced this week. The winners of the architecture categories were announced on Monday, the winning interior projects were announced on Tuesday and the design category winners were revealed on Wednesday. This afternoon, we'll be announcing the winners of the brand new media categories while the winning studios will be revealed tomorrow.

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Sustainable building of the year:

Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP

The town of Kamikatsu is the first place in Japan to pass a zero-waste declaration. The inhabitants have devised a clever system for separating and recycling waste, meaning that all their waste is recycled or reused rather than being incinerated.

The Kamikatsu Zero Waste Centre houses this system as well as bringing together local residents to share ideas and values, providing a space for education, research and communication as well as recycling.

The building itself is made almost entirely from discarded materials. The structure is made from timber offcuts and the 700 windows that make up the intriguing facade were donated by the local community.

The master jury said: "The Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center is a holistic project, which is having a significant impact on its local community and one in which sustainability has been considered from every perspective. The centre is acknowledging and celebrating society – it shows the community coming together and contributing. Beyond just a green and beautifully constructed architecture edifice, it is actually a decentralised upcycling factory, education, community centre cafe, retailer and a hotel. This is the green architecture we desperately need."

Sustainable interior of the year:

Mo de Movimiento by Lucas Muñoz

Mo de Movimiento is a new restaurant in a reclaimed space in Madrid designed by conceptual and experimental designer Lucas Muñoz.

The majority of the interior and elements within the space are made from reclaimed materials, including recycled junk and construction rubble from the renovation.

Munoz aimed to create a space that has a small impact on the environment, but a large positive one on the surrounding society.

Aiming to avoid unnecessary decoration, all elements of the restaurant serve a purpose. The hanging terracotta pots function as an adiabatic cooling system and the restaurant’s water is heated using excess heat from the pizza ovens.

The master jury said: "The restaurant is very beautiful, upcycled yet aesthetic. The interior is profound and whimsical. You can tell they had a lot of fun when designing this space. This interior is also honest, raw and fun. It does so many things and has an inventiveness to it. ​​Creativity, fun, cheerfulness permeates through every detail. The use of recycled material sparks design innovation at every level."

Sustainable design of the year:

Common Sands Forite tiles by Studio Plastique, Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni

The Common Sands Forite Tile collection showcases the untapped potential and unique qualities of e-waste glass from discarded microwaves.

The glass from used electronic devices is a material almost never recycled. This is challenged by the new collaborative project by Oslo-based architecture and design studio Snøhetta, Brussels-based Studio Plastique and Italian tile manufacturer Fornace Brioni.

Every tile is unique. The collaborating studios wanted to celebrate the defects in e-waste glass that usually means it cannot be recycled. These flaws became a key feature of the design, with a different composition and array of colours for each tile.

The master jury said: "Studio Plastique has taken an underexplored waste stream and found a clever solution with wide-ranging applications in these glass tiles. The designers have upcycled unwanted glass into one of the kind palettes for a new generation of lifecycle to come."

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