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MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2025

18 - 23 November 2025,

Thailand, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre

MAB25 | Call for MAB Awards

Call for Outstanding Media Architecture

We invite you to submit your contribution to the Media Architecture Biennale 2025 (MAB25), which will take place 18 - 23 November 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Submission Link

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We are seeking outstanding examples of Media Architecture for the MAB Awards. The Media Architecture Biennale Awards recognize the world’s best projects at the intersection of architecture, urban design and planning, media and interaction design, and urban media art.

The awards ceremony, featuring nominees and winners, will take place on November 23rd, 2025, in-person, in Thailand, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC) and online via live-stream. Winners and nominees are not required to attend the awards ceremony, although in-person attendance of all nominees is encouraged. Registration details for the MAB Conference will be available in September 2025.

* Please note that this is NOT a call for art installations to be exhibited at the Media Architecture Biennale.

MAB25 | Theme:

‘Urban Dialogue’ Transformative Living Phenomena

Urban development in the 21st century is no longer defined solely by infrastructure expansion or conventional planning models. The dynamic changes driven by population growth have led cities to expand without boundaries, reflecting the increasing complexity and diversity that all urban environments must confront. People seek spaces that respond to their needs, express their identities, and share narratives that connect with their communities and ways of life.

Details about the themes can be found on the website: https://mab2025.org/themes/

Important Dates

Call opens: Late June 2024

Call closes: September 11, 2025

Notifications: Late September 2025

Awards Ceremony: November 22nd, 2025, evening, in-person, in Thailand, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC) with online live-stream

Preparing Your Submission

Award Categories

You may submit your project to a maximum of TWO of the following categories.

Animated Media Architecture

Projects demonstrating creative integration and use of light sources on building façades. We seek projects that add to the communicative capacity of a building and to the experience of the building, the broader site, and the surrounding public space.

Urban Screens
Digital art projects that explore the cultural potential of commercial screens and transform them into visualisation zones and living screens that present tangible, visible and experiential narratives at the intersection of art, science, technologies - enhancing the public space for the citizens.

Spatial Media Art

Projects produced at the intersection of architecture and media art. We seek projects that add compelling layers of meaning to places to activate, challenge, and shape public spaces in innovative, artistic ways.

Future Trends and Prototypes

Projects that shed light on what the future of media architecture might look like. We seek projects that experiment with new technologies, production methods, or ideas. Projects in this category can be both actual projects or conceptual and speculative.

Equitable and Sustainable Media Architecture

Projects that reflect upon or address inequities and injustices related to society and/or climate. We seek projects that consider aspects of environmental and/or social justice in their ideation, design, implementation, construction, or programming.

Participatory Media Architecture and Infrastructures

Projects that aim to engage with the social and political life of the city and empower citizens to take part in collaborative city-making, especially placemaking and placekeeping. We seek digital, physical, or hybrid projects such as community platforms encouraging exchanges between citizens for the purposes of civic engagement or the management of urban infrastructures and shared resources.

Transmedial Media Architecture

Projects that engage and explore relationships between media architecture and broader forms of media and technology such as social media, film, television, artificial intelligence, AR, and VR. We seek projects that explore aesthetic, technical, and social interplay amongst architecture and media (and media as architecture/architecture as media) in order to express and shape the ways we design and experience reality.

Three projects in each category will be nominated for the Award and will be included in our online Media Architecture Biennale Awards catalog.

Nominated projects will also be featured in the forthcoming Media Architecture Compendium Volume 3 publication. Previous Compendiums can be found here.

One award will be given for each category.

Who May Submit?

Anyone who has played a substantial role in the submitted project, including:

Minimum Requirements For Submitting A Project

Submissions must:

We encourage you to:

We are aware that many Media Architecture projects are being realized by large teams of professionals. Please include as much information about your project as possible, although we recognize there might be some aspects that you do not know about. You may share the login data with other people involved in the project so that they can help you fill in the information.

Submission Link

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Terms of Participation

Please note that by submitting photos and video you give us the right to publish them at no cost in the exhibition on site at MAB25, in our online awards archive, and in other MAB publications, such as the Media Architecture Compendium. By submitting photos you also declare that you have the right for publishing and the dissemination of the photos.

Due to technical and organizational constraints, the organizers of the Media Architecture Biennale 2025 reserve the right to determine the actual extent, timing and layout/editing of the above-mentioned publications and documentaries.

The organizers reserve the right to determine which of the submitted works will be included in the exhibitions and determine which of the submitted works will be awarded. The entrants hereby consent to make their works available for this purpose.

The entrant hereby declares that he/she is legally authorized to convey such rights to the extent stipulated above and that he/she has obtained any and all necessary consent from third parties as called for by regulations governing copyright, personal property rights or other such legal provisions, and that he/she is prepared to provide proof of such at any time if called upon by the organizers of Media Architecture Biennale 2025 to do so.

Additional stipulations with regard to the conveyance of rights within the framework of agreements concluded in conjunction with participation in the exhibition and awards supplement the rights conveyed in this agreement but do not limit them in the absence of an express written agreement to the contrary.

This agreement elaborating the terms of participation is governed by Austrian law with the exception of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and all norms serving as legal reference (Verweisungsnormen). The place of jurisdiction is Vienna.

The participants also grant the organizers the non-exclusive right, free of temporal or geographic restriction, to publish or post the submitted works on presently existing video streaming sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Flickr.

Jury and Curational Network

The jury will consist of members from the Biennale’s organizing committee and an international advisory network. The jury will evaluate the projects according to the following criteria:

Aesthetics

To what extent does the project's aesthetic qualities enhance the project's intentions and impact?

 

Innovation

To what extent does the project demonstrate innovative elements that are technologically, socially, culturally, and/or environmentally innovative?

 

Impact

To what extent does the project promise to shape the future of media architecture?

Publications and Exhibition

All projects will be:

All finalists (top 3 in each category) will be:

Examples of Previous Nominees and Winners

Previous nominees and winners can be found here: https://awards.mediaarchitecture.org/mab/projects/

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Access

MAB25 strongly values equity, diversity, inclusion, and access. As part of this commitment we strive to mitigate the impacts of racism, discrimination, and bias within our programs and events. We encourage applications from Black and Indigenous candidates, people of colour, women, LGBTQ2S+ individuals, persons with disabilities, and other communities that are under-represented within our disciplines. MAB25 is developing an Equity, Access, and Belonging plan for the event which will include accessible transportation support, free and low-cost ticket options, tactile maps of venues, dependent care support, ASL interpretation, and peer support.

About the Media Architecture Biennale

The Media Architecture Biennale features keynotes, workshops, symposia, panels, awards, and exhibitions based in Bangkok with additional programming online. The event aims to offer a platform for communities of research and practice concerned with media and the built environment. MAB25 will bring together students, academics, and professionals from architecture, art, design, urban planning, media and communication, urban informatics, interaction design, and public policy to share new ideas and shape this evolving field.

The Media Architecture Biennale 2025 is organized by:

Executive Committee

Priyakorn Pusawiro, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi.

Chawee Busayarat, Thammasat University.

Pheereeya Boonchaiyapruek, Silpakorn University.

Takerng Pattanopas, Chulalongkorn University

Kalaya Kovidvisith, FabCafe Bangkok

Nuntinee Tansrisakul, Glow Story

Advisory Board

Martijn de Waal, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Dave Colangelo, Toronto Metropolitan University

Gernot Tscherteu, Reality lab

Susa Pop, Public Art Lab

More Information & Contact

Awards Chair:

Gernot Tscherteu | Media Architecture Institute, Realitylab

Awards Ceremony Host:

Tac Lion | Media Facade

Awards Technical Director

Lotti Tscherteu | Media Architecture Institute

Awards System Developer

Juan Carlos Carvajal B.

Lotti Tscherteu | Media Architecture Institute

Please direct any questions to awards@mediaarchitecture.org

 

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UPDATED: January 2022