Established by Fenn Designers in 2008, and open to all young creative minds from all parts of the world from the ages of 18-33, their annual Fenn Young Designers Awards celebrates excellence in creativity and innovation in the world of design. With this year’s focus on ‘a new learning environment,’ entries can be made across a very broad spectrum of project types. Buildings, interiors, landscaping, refurbishment, urban projects, fine art, furniture and product designs are all eligible. This year’s main challenge is: How can the “library” be re-imagined and re-engineered to provide such an environment for the Millennials?

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2. FENN YOUNG DESIGNERS AWARD (FYDA) was established in 2008 by Fenn.
Fenn is a full service design practice dedicated to the ethos that
“Art, design, and architecture are an expression of life as well as a shelter for it”
Fenn operates as a team of highly experienced designers guided by this collective vision to deliver the
best design and service to our clients. Fenn team believes in a holistic approach to design that evolves
from the narrow focus on aesthetics to embrace other disciplines working together to create synergy
between people and places. (www.fenndesigners.com)
FENN YOUNG DESIGNERS AWARD (FYDA) celebrates excellence in creativity and innovation in the
world of design. It is open to young creative minds between the age of 18-33, from all parts of the
world. The design competition aim is to;
• Help in nurturing young talented designers
• Showcase creativity and innovations
• Foster a forum for creative minds
• Provide a platform for young designers to express their creativity outside the usual “Brief” formula.
Entries can be made across a very broad spectrum of project types. Buildings, interiors, landscaping,
refurbishment, urban projects, fine art, furniture and product designs are all eligible.
Fenn Young Designers Award (FYDA)

3. A new Learning Environment
As technology advance in spades our lives are changing dramatically. Generations’ technological gap
is widening greatly and parents are finding it difficult to understand their kids and deal with their ways
of working, learning and socializing.
It is even more obvious in schools where the challenges faced by teachers, curricula and physical
facilities are immense.
Young generation’ ways of learning, their multitasking skills are changing. Sitting in a quiet room
surrounded with rows of books is becoming almost obsolete. Young generations are looking for
interactive environments, environments that allow them to work, share, socialize, and learn.
Fenn Young Designers Award Challenge this year is;
How can the “library” be re-imagined and re-engineered to provide this type of environment for
the Millennials?
FYDA 2013 Competition

4. The Jury includes prominent design professionals from various design fields as well as specialists librarian and end users.
•Dr. Chafia Ferhat, Creative Design Director Fenn Designers, | Architecture/Interior Design
•Francesco Cappuccio, Director of School Accademia Italiana, | Interior Design/Industrial Design
•Miriam Varghese, Programme Director Raffles Design Institute | Fashion Design
•Dr. Catherine Clover, Board member The Nelson Hayes Library| Art history
•Diana Pajkovski, Curator The Nelson Hayes Library | Librarian
•Ravi Chailertborisuth, NIST , Bangkok User Generation Y
FYDA 2013 JURY
FYDA 2013 Applicants
This year we received 312 applications from
58 countries. Europe, USA and Asia.
candidates came in force once again this
year.
Submissions ranged from Urban design,
Architecture, Product Design and Interior
Design.
After some heated debates the Jury were
able to finalise the winners and the honorable
mentions of FYDA 2013.

5. Name of project: THE DIGITAL GENISIS
OF THE LIBRARY
Team members:
SHARIF ANOUAR
ILYAS EL HAJJI
EL MAHDI LEBBATE
HICHAM OUSALAH

6. Name of project: THE HUB
Team members:
SANTI MUSMECI
SEBASTIANO MACCARRONE

7. Name of project: RETOLD |
NARRATING INTELLIGENCE
Team members:
WEILEONG YAP
MING JANN LEE

8. Honorable mention F13C102
(Portugal)
Name of project: INFORMATION CLOUD
Team members:
FRANCISCO JOÃO SOUSA GABRIEL FERREIRA DA SILVA
ANA RITA CORREIA GOMES

9. Honorable mention F13C118
(Vietnam)
Name of project: READING ISLANDS SYSTEM
Team members:
THU HA NGUYEN
DUY HOANG VU
PHUC THANG NGUYEN

10. Name of project: A SPACE FOR THE FUTURE
Team members:
SEAN BRADY
Honorable mention F13C120
(United Kingdom)

11. Name of project: EVENT ENCOUNTERED: URBAN INFO | SYSTEM
Team members:
NIKHIL TRICAM
Honorable mention F13C128
(South Africa)

12. Name of project: LIBRARY NODES
Team members:
MUHAMMAD IQBAL TAWAKAL
Honorable mention F13C172
(Indonesia)

13. Name of project: CYBERNETICS AND THE EVOLUTION
OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE LIBRARY
Team members:
Alireza Memarian | Mahsa Dehghani | Kiana Karimi |
Ghazaal Salimianrizi | Hamed Dabestani
Honorable mention F13C179
(Iran)

14. Name of project: RECONCILIATION WITH THE BOOK
Team members:
TAREK HREISH
Honorable mention F13C197
(Lebanon)

15. Name of project: OLD, NEW, AND COMFORTABLE
Team members:
BAHARE JAHANGIRI
NIMA ALAVI
JAVAD ALLAHGHOLI
Honorable mention F13C210
(Iran)

16. Name of project: DHRISTIKON, A LIBRARY FOR
GENERATION ‘Y’ OR MILLENNIAL
Team members:
DEEPAK SINGH DHAMI
Honorable mention F13C216
(India)

17. Name of project: SENTENTIA
Team members:
ILIJANA SOLDAN
Honorable mention F13C250
(Unites States of America)

18. Name of project: [FACE] BOOKS
Team members:
SRIJON BARUA
SAMAIN SABRIN
Honorable mention F13C284
(Bangladesh)

19. Name of project: MODERN ATHENAEUM
Team members:
AMY CHOI | OLIVIA LUI | KEVIN HONG
MITCHAL QUAN | CURTIS WONG
Honorable mention F13C307
(United States of America)

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