Virtual Only | ISOCARP Awards 2021

The winners of ISOCARP Awards in three categories – Award for Excellence, Gerd Albers Award and Student Award – will be formally announced during this special session. As all the winners will have the opportunity to present their winning entries, we cordially invite you to watch the awards announcement live! 

This year we received record 22 entries in the Award for Excellence category, 14 submissions for the Gerd Albers Award, and a record number of 36 applications in the Student Award category. After extensive evaluation, the jury committees have been able to select the awardees in each category:

AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE 2021

2021 Grand Award for Excellence Winners:

• Guideline for Regeneration of the Old Communities in Jiangsu, by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Jiangsu Planning and Design Group Co., Ltd.
• Nur-Sultan 2030,by SpaceSyntax
  

2021 Merit Award for Excellence Winners:

• Mobility Development Strategy for the North Hanoi Smart City, by Oriental Consultants Global Co. Ltd.
• Post-pandemic revitalization plan of Wuhan, by Wuhan Planning and Design Institute
• Participatory community planning through socio-spatial co-production: "New Qinghe Experiment" in Beijing, China, by the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University and Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute Co. Ltd.

GERD ALBERS AWARD 2021

GAA 2021 – Best Book

• Reflections on Seaside: Muses, Ideas, Influences, and New & Future Projects, by Dhiru Thadani

GAA 2021 – Best article 

• "Living and Planning on the Edge: Unravelling Conflict and Claim-Making in Peri-Urban Lahore, Pakistan," by Helena Cermeño

GAA 2021 – Special mention

• Sustainable Land Management in a European Context: A Co-Design Approach, by Thomas Weith, Tim Barkmann, Nadin Gaasch, Sebastian Rogga, Christian Strauß and Jana Zscheischler (editors)

STUDENT AWARD 2021

Student Award Winners:

• Beyond survival: building resilient communities through co-creation for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, by Mariia Smoliakova and Lamia Ahmed
• Redevelopment of Dumar Talab slum with incremental housing solutions: the urban housing challenge (a case of Raipur, India), by Afia Siddiqui

Student Award Special mentions:

• Customized community regeneration: improving spatial diversity based on digital portraits of population, case of Yuejianglou community in Nanjing, China, by Xun Zhang, Shunyao Yin and Yuyue Huang
• Hayy: rethinking Qatari neighbourhoods and dwellings, by Moza Ahmad Al Obaidan
• Fostering symbiosis between ecology, community, and urban development: water systems as primary determinants of eco-sensitive urbanism, by Munawar Irfaan
• Restructuring the spatiality of performative culture: manifesting the expression of work-based clusters on the case of Kumortuli, Kolkata, by Abhishek Dey