Highly Commended Projects
This year there were three highly commended projects from the overall submission:
Project Lacey Green
Clementine Blakemore – Architecture
Project Lacey Green is concerned with the
relationship between design, making and place. Through the incremental and
collaborative construction of a new music room for St John’s primary school in
Lacey Green village in Buckinghamshire, the project suggests ways in which
built structure can become an ongoing framework for social and cultural
infrastructure.
Judge’s comment:
“A thorough and well-executed project with
real community engagement.”
Nature/Nurture
Rosann Ling – Interior Design
This scheme bridges the gap between the
NHS and the home for stroke survivors. Rehabilitation is carried out through
gardening and cooking, a series of enjoyable and rewarding activities that also
serve as a metaphor for the patient’s gradual improvement. The journey of
planting seedlings to using the grown plants as ingredients for cooking forms a
continuous cycle of nurture, growth and hope.
Judge’s comment:
“ Empathic and sensitive interior
project linking NHS and home care.”
Everything That Was There Before (and still is)
Michael Pecirno – Information Experience Design
The work explores a future dark sky’s
greatest challenge: encouraging people to save something they’ve never seen.
Through a multi-disciplinary approach of cartography, typography, and
experiential installation, the piece begins to explore how designers can play a
role in communicating a story as old as the universe.
Judge’s comment:
“Thought-provoking and original way to
communicate an issue that is not yet well understood.”