the jury:

Rania Ghosn is associate professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and founding partner of Design Earth with El Hadi Jazairy. Her practice engages the speculative design project to make visible and public the geographies of the climate crisis and her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, the Triennale di Milano, and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. It is also featured in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Rania is founding editor of New Geographies and editor of Landscapes of Energy (2009) and coauthor of Geographies of Trash (2015), Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2020), and The Planet After Geoengineering (2021). Rania is recipient of the Architectural League Prize (2016).

Jason Zhisen Ho is a curator, urbanist, and educator based in Guangzhou, China. He is founder of Mapping Workshop China and director of FEI Arts Museum in Guangzhou. Jason has participated in many international exhibitions including the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. He was sub-curator of the 2017 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture/Urbanism Bio-City Biennale, academic convener of 2017 Guangzhou Art Week, and co-curator of the 2021 OCAT Shenzhen Biennale. Jason is an adjunct professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and associate professor in the School of Architecture at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou. In 2019, he was named by China’s Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper as “Star of the Year.”

Fiona Raby is partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby, co-director of the Designed Realities Studio, and professor of design and social inquiry at the New School in New York City. She was chair and professor of industrial design (ID2) at Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna from 2011–2015 and a Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, London from 1995. Fiona is coauthor, with Anthony Dunne, of Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects (2001, 2021) and Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming (2013). Dunne & Raby’s work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Design Museum in London, and is in several permanent collections including MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts. Dunne & Raby received the inaugural MIT Media Lab Award in 2015.

Mark Raggatt is director of the Australian design firm ARM Architecture. ARM is defiantly and zealously dedicated to the dissemination of ideas in and through architecture, and Mark’s work has been described as “a delirious mash-up of influences, sources, experiments, scribbles, rantings, critical writings, interviews, essays and major projects, all piled one on top of the other.” His award-winning design work includes the University of Sydney College of the Arts and the Gold Coast HoTA Outdoor Stage, and he is currently working on the Sydney Opera House renewal. Coeditor of Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall, Mark continues his research and teaching through the Masters of Architecture programs at RMIT University in Melbourne and the University of Technology Sydney. His current research is focused on the role of design and designer in reconciliation and decolonization of the built environment in Australia.