Dezeen options editor Nat Barker has been shortlisted for excellence in inventive journalism on the Créateurs Design Awards 2024, which can even see awarding architect Frida Escobedo and designer Gaetano Pesce.
Barker was shortlisted for the annual award alongside writers from Wallpaper, Galerie Journal and The Grand Vacationer for his movie: Will architects actually lose their jobs to AI?
The piece, which explores whether or not AI know-how can actually substitute architects, created a passionate debate in Dezeen’s feedback part.
Barker spoke to varied architects and designers for the story to assemble a variety of views on the impression AI might have on design and structure studios.
The Créateurs Design Awards (CDA) had been established in 2019 to “spotlight extraordinary work in structure, inside design, product design, pictures, journalism and curation”.
“Our mission is to acknowledge and assist excellence within the design business, protect the integrity of design and encourage future generations,” CDA mentioned.
Final 12 months, Dezeen’s deputy editor Cajsa Carlson was nominated for an award for excellence in inventive journalism.
This 12 months, Mexican architect Escobedo might be awarded the Charlotte Perriand Prize, which celebrates pioneers in structure and design.
Escobedo, who began her eponymous studio in 2006, was named this 12 months’s winner in recognition of her “daring ideas” and “introducing a brand new period of structure,” the CDA mentioned.
“To be acknowledged by this excellent jury is an honor that resonates deeply with me,” mentioned Escobedo. “It serves as a testomony to Charlotte Perriand’s lasting legacy, a legacy I’m humbled and blissful to perpetuate.”
Designer and architect Pesce will obtain the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award on the occasion, which is able to happen in Paris, France on January 20.
A number of his work from the 1960s onwards was lately featured in a solo exhibition in Los Angeles. And eventually 12 months’s Milan Design Week, Pesce unveiled his first purse, designed for style model Bottega Veneta.