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MAB Awards – Call for Outstanding Media Architecture

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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the fifth call of the Media Architecture Biennale Awards for outstanding projects at the intersection of architecture, urban design and planning, media and interaction design. The awards ceremony will take place on July 2nd, 2021 as an online live cast featuring the nominees and winners.

This call targets projects that are already built or realized except if your projects fits the category “Future Trends and Prototypes.” We particularly call for projects that match this year’s Biennale theme of Futures Implied.

Please note also that this is NOT a call for art installations to be exhibited at the Media Architecture Biennale.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Start submission: 1 March 2020
Submission deadline: 29 March 2021
Notification: 26 April 2021
Awards ceremony: 2 July 2021

WHO MAY SUBMIT?

Everyone who has played a substantial role in the submitted project, including:
– Architects and urban designers
– Artists
– Designers and experts in: Media, Lighting, (Urban) Interaction design and HCI, Social engagement and social design, Other relevant domains
– Experts from industry
– Experts from academia
– Members of NGOs or other institutional organizations

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTING A PROJECT:

Fill in all fields marked as “mandatory”
Provide at least 3 photos for which you own the copyrights.
Provide a weblink for additional information.

WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO:

Upload a video(link) documenting the work

WHERE TO SUBMIT?

To submit your project, visit https://awards.mediaarchitecture.org/mab/submit/

AWARDS CEREMONY

The awards ceremony will take place on July 2nd, 2021 as an online event featuring the selected nominees and winners. The ceremony will be live-streamed.

Winners are not required to make a commitment to accepting their awards in person.

AWARD CATEGORIES

You may submit your project in one or two of the following categories.

ANIMATED ARCHITECTURE
Projects demonstrating creative media façade designs. Façades of buildings are increasingly animated by integrated light sources. Designers are increasingly that specialize in the perception of the building, checking out designs that add layers of meaning and/or bring out new experiences of the building itself, the broader site, and its surrounding public space.

BRANDING AND ENTERTAINMENT
Projects incorporating buildings that are closely associated with business, banks, shopping centers, entertainment, and gambling. Lighting and other media elements in and on building surfaces are designed to draw in people, to strengthen a brand related to the building or to represent the facility of the institution.

PARTICIPATORY ARCHITECTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURES
Projects that aim to impact the social and political life within the city, and empower citizens to become active participants in their communities. Examples are: digital, physical or hybrid community platforms encouraging all types of exchanges between citizens; visualizations of important societal issues publicly space; platforms and installations for participatory city-making; and platforms or installations that leave commons-based management of urban infrastructures and resources like mobility or energy. Hybrid systems that contains digital and physical components are highly wanted.

SPATIAL MEDIA ART
Projects produced in an inventive context at the intersection of architecture and media art. Installations with an innovative sort of spatial interaction and/or perception of space. Projects during this category experiment with new media materials and spatial experiences, add layered symbolic meanings to places, or activate public spaces in innovative and artistic ways.

FUTURE TRENDS AND PROTOTYPES
Projects that shed light on what the longer term of media architecture might appear as if . This section covers special solutions like three-dimensional displays, kinetic façades, OLEDs, or robotic elements that experiment with new technologies, production methods, or ideas. Projects during this category are often both actual projects or conceptual and speculative.

MORE THAN HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Projects that explore the relation between humans and non-humans within the city, contributing to ecologically sustainable urban futures. Digital technologies, including those utilized in media architecture, can increase the standard of urban life for citizens. However, they will even have a negative impact on the natural environment and on ecological systems in and around cities. Projects during this category raise awareness about these issues, help to think about non-human actors and perspectives or aim at contributing to creating cities sustainable.

SHOWCASING THE PROJECTS

All selected nominees and their projects are going to be featured during a series of articles on Archdaily. This series are going to be published in May as a collaboration between MAB20 and Archdaily.

Winners and nominees are going to be featured on the Media Architecture Catalog. this is often a compendium of outstanding projects that outline the state of the art of built Media Architectures.

A recent overview of media architecture can also be found in our publication: Media Architecture Compendium: Digital Placemaking, see here https://awards.mediaarchitecture.org/mab/projects/

WHO IS THE WINNER?

The awards are not given out to individuals. Rather, the project itself, as a whole, is awarded. Those involved in the project will be invited to take part in all events at the Biennale, which will place online from June 28th – July 2nd, 2021.

JURY AND CURATORIAL NETWORK

The jury will consist of members from the Biennale organizing committee and an international curatorial network that will recommend projects to us (please check https://awards.mediaarchitecture.org for updates). The jury will evaluate the projects according to the following criteria:

Aesthetic qualities
Innovative elements
Technical challenges mastered
Integration of different project components, e.g. architecture, display, content, social context
Impact on the city

FEEDBACK

Please note that we value your feedback and experiences, as they will be helpful for implementing any improvements to this process. Please direct your feedback to awards@mediaarchitecture.org.

MORE INFORMATION & CONTACT

Contact MAB20 Awards organizers via awards@mediaarchitecture.org

Awards curator | Gernot Tscherteu, Media Architecture Institute.
Awards co-curator and technical director | Juan Carvajal B., Austrian Institute of Technology.
Awards system developer | Lotti Tscherteu, Media Architecture Institute.

Download the information related to this competition here.

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