White Arkitekter CEO Alexandra Hagen, structural engineer Hanif Kara and speculative architect Liam Young will judge Dezeen's Redesign the World competition in partnership with Epic Games, which calls for new ideas to rethink planet Earth.
Young, Hara and Hagen will join Belinda Ercan, Twinmotion product marketing manager at Epic Games, and Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs to form the Redesign the World judging panel.
The competition, which launched at the end of July, calls for radical solutions to protect and prolong the habitability of planet Earth for hundreds of years to come.
Dezeen teamed up with Epic Games, creator of architectural visualisation tool Twinmotion, to launch the competition. Entrants must produce their concepts using the software, submitting a video animation and still image of their concept, along with up to 500 words of text about their proposal. Dezeen hosted an online workshop on how to use Twinmotion to help participants with their entries.
Judges looking for visionary concepts
The judging panel will assess the entries once the competition closes on 15 September. Judges will be looking for visionary concepts and are less concerned with technical mastery of the Twinmotion software. However, the quality of the execution of the idea will also be considered.
15 of the best proposals will be published on Dezeen in November during our Dezeen 15 online festival celebrating Dezeen's 15th anniversary.
A top prize of £5,000 will be awarded f...