2022 Jury.

Akshat Bhatt

Principal Architect, Architecture Discipline
India

Akshat Bhatt is the Principal Architect at Architecture Discipline, a New Delhi-based multi-disciplinary architecture practice he founded in 2007. He graduated from the TVB School of Habitat Studies in 2002, following which he studied at The University of East London under Peter Salter & Michelle Roelofsma. He has also worked with Penoyre & Prasad, and Jeff Kahane & Associates in London.

His work spans varied typologies from residences and workspaces, to retail and hospitality interiors, to large-scale urban and commercial assignments. His portfolio also includes explorations in public art and installations, furniture, and product design.
Architecture Discipline aspires to create environments that foster happiness and a sense of optimism for the future, bringing value to the lives and work of people. Its work is driven by a context-driven, rational approach of ideation, which is then defined and developed by a highly technical outlook with a focus on longevity and flexibility.

Over the last 18 years, Bhatt has taught at three architecture schools in New Delhi, actively engaging with the city’s academic community.

Alice Hampson

Founder & Director, Alice Hampson Architect
Australia

Alice Hampson is the Principal of Alice Hampson Architect, which she established in 1993 after graduating from the University of Queensland in 1988 with First Class Honours. Her notable academic achievements include winning the A E Brooks Travelling
Scholarship, 1988; James Hardie Design Award; Karl & Gertrude Langer Memorial Prize for Design, Queensland Institute of Architects Memorial Medallion (QIA) and Board of Architects Award (Design Studies), BHP Australian Student Biennale Awards (finalist) and Concrete Masonry Association Competition (First Prize); University of Queensland Architecture Department Drawing Prize and Board of Architects Prize – Bachelor of Architecture.

After entering practice Alice won awards for architecture, heritage, and public art. They include: group awards for “John Herbert Memorial Award and Gold Heritage Award” for Hot Modernism: Building Modern Queensland 1945-1975, 2017; Silver Award for Stories of our Built Heritage for Brisbane Art Deco, National Trust Queensland, 2015; Finalist, Public Art, Design Institute (Qld) 2005; Best Use of Lighting and Commendation, for Stage Set, DIA Awards, 2002; High Commendation Art & Architecture, RAIA (Qld), 2005.

In various years, Alice was a tutor in Architectural Design at the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. She was a founding member of Designing Women Talk Series, founded the Architext Website, Brisbane; served on committees for Alvar Aalto Exhibition, Queensland Museum and Carlo Scarpa – Castlevecchio Museum Drawings Exhibition, Old Government House, QUT.

Alice has taken a prominent public role in Queensland and Nationally: as a writer, editor, competition chair and juror, speaker and board member, councilor, and office-bearer of professional and official organisations.

Asha Sairam

Principal, Studio Lotus
India

Asha Sairam is a Principal at Studio Lotus, a New Delhi-based multidisciplinary design practice founded in 2002. Spanning the domains of Masterplanning, Architecture, and Interior Design, the work of the award-winning practice is grounded on the principles of Conscious Design—an approach that celebrates local resources, cultural influences, an inclusive process, and keen attention to detail.

Presently, Asha leads the Hospitality Design vertical for the practice. A 40 Under 40 honoree at the Perspective Global Design Awards 2019, she is an active member of the Indian design fraternity, regularly participating in panel discussions and conferences, representing the practice on a global stage.

Studio Lotus’s work is internationally recognized—winning, among others: World’s Best Holiday Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival, the Creative Reuse category at INSIDE Awards, the DOMUS Italia Award for Restoration and Adaptive Reuse, the Grand Jury Prize at the Design for Asia Award, the Prix Versailles Special Prize for Restaurant Interiors, the Social Good category and people’s favourite at the AZ Awards by Azure, the Public Amenity, Commercial Buildings category at the ARCASIA Awards for Architecture, making it to the longlist at the Dezeen Awards as well as India’s AD 100 list for seven consecutive years, and a nomination in the Aga Khan Awards cycle 2013. The practice’s projects and writings have been published extensively in newspapers and magazines globally.

Brodie Neill

Founder & Industrial Designer, Brodie Neill
Australia & UK

Brodie Neill is renowned for creating striking, sinuous and sculptural designs ingrained in material research, technical rigour and digital innovation. A University of Tasmania and Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Brodie gained immediate industry acclaim at the global launch of his debut designs resulting in inclusion in TIME Magazine’s Design 100: the most influential designs.
Neill represented Australia at the inaugural London Design Biennale in 2016 at Somerset House where he presented the now-iconic Gyro table which highlights the issue of ocean plastic waste. Gyro was acquired by National Gallery of Victoria for its permanent collection and exhibited at the recent NGV Triennial. A champion of using design to combat ocean plastic waste, Brodie has spoken at the European Union Parliament and the United Nations.

In 2013, Brodie founded Made in Ratio, an innovative yet enduring contemporary furniture collection which harnesses nature’s perfection of ratio and proportion. The collection is forged from the desire to take exceptional ideas from inception to production by embracing advanced technologies and enhancing traditional techniques.
Critically acclaimed through awards and publications, the collection includes the now-iconic Cowrie chair, recognised for its curvilinear monocoque form, and the critically acclaimed Alpha in 2015, a stacking chair with a sculptural silhouette that embraces natural design and honest craftsmanship. Exuding originality and elegance, both designs are celebrated in Taschen’s 1000 Chairs.
Brodie has worked with an impressive roster of clients, collaborating with international brands including Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Alexander McQueen and Swarovski. His limited-edition works are included in museums, galleries and private collections around the globe.

Chan Ee Mun

Architect, WOHA
Singapore

Chan Ee Mun is a Director at WOHA. He obtained his Master of Architecture from the National University of Singapore and has been associated with the architectural practice since its inception. Ee Mun is driven by his intrinsic interest in Tropical Urbanity and its change-making potential in shaping responsive architectural solutions to modern issues of density and climate change. His work is characterised by its people-centric approach which is spatially engaging, programmatically vibrant and environmentally responsive.

Chui Lai (Judy) Cheung

Co-founder, Cheungvogl Architects
Hong Kong

Cheungvogl is the architecture workshop of Chui Lai Cheung and Christoph Vogl. In 2011, they participated in the ‘Picturing “Home-for-All”’ exhibition, curated by Toyo Ito and other notable architects, at the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, Imabari, Japan.

In 2017, Cheungvogl was named one of “20 designers and brands that define our tomorrow” by Frame Magazine, alongside OMA and Snøhetta. That year, they won First Prize in the international competition for the Yeoui-Naru Ferry Terminal and Masterplan in Seoul. In 2018, Cheungvogl received the FRAME Award Jury Prize for their innovative restoration of the 110-year-old UNESCO heritage Au Pont Rouge in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

David Teh

Founder & Director, Pakatan Reka Arkitek Sdn Bhd
Malaysia

David Teh is the Founder and Director of Pakatan Reka Arkitek Sdn Bhd (PRA), a leading architecture practice based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Established in 1979, PRA has an extensive portfolio spanning masterplans, offices, schools, hotels, and residential developments.

A former President of the Malaysia Institute of Architects (PAM), David has also held leadership roles with the Board of Architects Malaysia, Commonwealth Association of Architects, and ARCASIA. He has contributed to architectural education at Universiti Malaya and Deakin University and organised key industry conferences, including the Asian Congress of Architects. In 2022, David was awarded the PAM Gold Medal, recognising his outstanding service to Malaysia’s architectural profession.

Elaine Yan Ling Ng

Founder, The Fabrick Lab
Hong Kong

Elaine Yan Ling Ng, nicknamed the ‘techno fairy’ by Elle Deco, is the founder of The Fabrick Lab, which brings together textiles, electronics, biomimicry, interiors and installations. A British Chinese materialologist, Ng graduated from Central Saint Martins in London where she earned her MA Design in Textile Futures with distinction. An alumna of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Management in Leadership, she is a TED Fellow and has been globally recognized, by multiple design awards, including AD100 The Game Changer by AD Italia, The Influencer by INDE. Awards and received The Emerging Talent Award by Design Anthology, GGEF’s Eco Innovator Award, Swarovski’s Designer of the Future Award and Tatler’s Gen T Award. She has worked with Nissan Design Europe and Nokia Design Beijing and is one of the top 50 brightest connectors, creative visionaries, influential innovators and disruptive talents in Hong Kong.

Ng’s magical approach towards materials is inspirational, and at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 she was commissioned by UBS to create an original work designed to instigate conversations about sustainability with data, art and design. Ng’s work has since been exhibited at Art Basel, Design Miami/ Basel, the V&A and the Science Museum in London, The Triennale Design Museum, the Textiel Museum, Tilburg, the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, the Espace EDF Art Foundation in Paris, and the Wuhao, Beijing and Moleskine Global galleries.

In 2020, Ng was appointed Nature Squared’s Chief Material Innovator, and her mission is to turn waste from shells and other materials such as abandoned termite nests, grass, seeds and even stones into sustainable construction material, using the example of biowaste in the medical industry.

Elaine designs for the greater good, rather than simply for beauty or function.

Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoan, Tokelauan)

Principal & Kaihautū Waihanga, Jasmax
Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoan, Tokelauan) is the Principal and Kaihautū Waihanga at architecture firm Jasmax, and an artist, and writer living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ. In 2015 Heta, along with three others, founded the roopū Waka Māia within Jasmax, to respond to the growing demand and opportunities to support and enhance kaupapa Māori thinking and outcomes in projects, with clients and Iwi across Aotearoa and internationally. Through her role and time at Jasmax she has worked on Western Springs College, Ngā Puna o Waiorea, the New Zealand Pavilion at World Expo 2020, and City Rail Link. She was the first Director on the Te Kahui Whaihanga NZIA board to represent Te Kawenata o Rata, and Ngā Aho (2016 – 2019). Through her art practice Elisapeta, in collaboration with John Miller (Ngāpuhi), took the exhibition Pouwātū: Active Presence to the Sydney Biennale NIRIN 2020, and brought it home to Objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau (March – May 2021).

Florian Heinzelmann & Daliana Suryawinata

Founders & Directors, SHAU
Indonesia

Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann are founders of SHAU Rotterdam-Bandung (www.shau.nl, instagram:@shauarchitects). SHAU works on multiple scales and typologies with a cultural-environmental agenda. Their work includes public spaces, vertical housing, visionary masterplans and microlibraries.

Among other awards, SHAU has received Architizer A+ Awards 2020 & 2017, INDE.Awards 2018 ‘Influencer’ category, Small Firm of the Year in Sustainable Architecture from the American Architecture Prize 2017, Silver Prize from Lafarge-Holcim Award Asia-Pacific 2017 and was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019. Prior to establishing SHAU, Daliana and Florian studied at the Berlage Institute Rotterdam. Florian was a project architect at UNStudio in Amsterdam. He was a researcher, master course tutor and Solar Decathlon project manager at TU Delft and completed his PhD research on Adaptive Daylight Systems at TU Eindhoven. He is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture. Daliana worked for OMA, MVRDV and West8 and taught master courses at The Why Factory TU Delft with topics ranging from ‘Superkampung Jakarta’ to ‘World Wonders’.

SHAU won The Influencer for its project Microlibraries at INDE.Awards 2018.

Goy Zhenru

Director, Goy Architects
Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia

Goy Zhenru studied and worked in both Singapore and Switzerland, where her experiences influenced her approach to architecture, spurring her to organise a research trip in Thailand for her Master thesis on the topic of regionalism. In 2015, she set up her firm, Goy Architects, that spans across three Southeast Asia countries – Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. Together with her colleagues, she seeks to push the boundaries of vernacular and regional crafts whilst embracing technology and modern working methods, producing award-winning projects such as the 2020 INDE Awards “Best of the Best” project, Sukasantai Farmstay. She aims to create spaces that are meaningful and embraces one’s identity in the region.

James Calder

Director, Placing
Australia

James Calder is one of the world’s innovators in workplace, education and health design. His list of key projects has always been a generation ahead and have a unique proposition around the performance of space and place from the user perspective. Landmark projects such as Campus MLC, Macquarie at 50 Martin Place and Shelley Street, multiple projects for NAB including 700 Bourke, TechCentral, SAHMRI and Tonsley Park were all influenced by his thinking and collaborative implementation approach.

Having worked for large international firms, an investment bank, and his own consultancy, James is now embarking on a new area of expertise that is beginning to be called the spatial economy, based on Web 3.0 and the next wave of the technological changes. James has been a founding INDE Jury member and continues in this role for 2025.

Jefa Greenaway (Wailwan|Kamilaroi)

Founder & Director, Greenaway Architects
Australia

Jefa Greenaway is the Director of Greenaway Architects, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University. A registered architect in NSW and Victoria, he has championed Indigenous-led design for over 25 years as co-founder of Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria and co-author of the International Indigenous Design Charter.

Jefa is a Regional Ambassador for INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Network), co-curated the Australian exhibition at La Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2020/21, and is a founding signatory of Architects Declare Australia. His contributions to design have earned him recognition as a Qantas 100 Inspiring Australian and a 2020 inductee into the Design Institute of Australia’s Hall of Fame and he was accorded the accolade of Luminary at the 2023 INDE.Awards.

Khai Liew

Director, Khai Liew
Australia

Khai Liew is the director of a multi-disciplinary design practice based in Adelaide, Australia. The practice comprises a design studio and workshop, where high-skilled craftspeople produce one-off design commissions, small-run furniture editions as well as complete interiors.

Khai Liew is an acknowledged expert in Australian historical decorative arts and acts as a consultant to state and national institutions, advising on curatorial matters, acquisition and conservation in the field of Australian material culture. As a designer, he draws on this knowledge to produce work that speaks of its time, place, people and culture. As such he occupies a unique place in Australian contemporary design.

Liew has received numerous awards in acknowledgement of his contribution to the Australian design landscape, including the South Australian of the Year Arts Award in 2010 and the Design Institute of Australia’s “Design Icon” Award. He was also inducted into the Design Institute of Australia’s Hall of Fame in 2016.

Leone Lorrimer

National Practice Leader, GHD Design
Australia

For over 30 years Leone Lorrimer has been a recognisable presence in the architecture and design profession. Her projects have won numerous awards in Australia and internationally.

She has been a leading design professional, a mentor and an executive director of two major international practices, as well as working as a client to some of the world’s most famous architecture and design practices. Leone is GHD Design’s National Practice Leader and has been a member of the INDE.Awards jury since the inception of the program.

Luke Yeung

Principal, Architectkidd
Thailand

Luke Yeung leads Thailand architectural studio Architectkidd along with Udomsak Komonvilas and Jariyawadee Lekawatana. Based in Bangkok, Architectkidd’s designs make use of innovative tools that are sensitively applied to local materials and construction techniques. This combination leads to architectural projects that are bold and inventive but also closely connected with the local conditions of SouthEast Asia.

Working within the context of South East Asia’s growing cities, Architectkidd is known for articulating materiality as a way to bring humanistic and social qualities into the built environment.

Nic Brunsdon

Principal & Creative Director - Nic Brunsdon
Australia & South-East Asia

Nic Brunsdon is recognised as one of Australia’s leading architects. In 2015 Nic was the sole winner of the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architect Award, firstly for Western Australia and then nationally.

His studio works throughout Australia and South-East Asia regions through its offices in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, and Denpasar.

He is a past nominee for the 40 under 40 young business leaders award, a nominated thought leader for the City of Perth, the 2015 recipient of the Dulux International Study Tour for Emerging Architects, the 2017/18 recipient of the Gil Nicol Biennial International Study Bursary, and a founding Board Member of Activate Perth.

The studio’s work has recently received recognition at the World Architecture Festival, Dezeen Awards, Houses Awards, INDE awards, and Australian Institute of Architects Awards programs, most notably winning both the public vote and master jury awards at the prestigious Dezeen Awards for the world’s best hospitality project.

He is the current Chair of the Perth Centre for Photography which is one of Australia’s leading contemporary photography organisations.

He is also the Director of the urban program Spacemarket, which pairs disused spaces with useful people and has worked on policy formation and development at all three levels of government, most recently leading the Design WA suite of built environment policies within the Department of Planning, Lands, and Heritage for the Western Australian State Government.

Raj Nandan

Founder & CEO, Indesign Media Asia Pacific
Singapore/Australia

Rajesh Nandan is the Founder, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the design industry’s premier regional media house, Indesign Media Asia Pacific. After acquiring his first magazine at the age of 22 in 1993, Raj continued to launch a suite of magazine titles throughout the 1990s that would become the foundation for his boutique publishing house in 2000 under the flagship title, Indesign.

In 2010, the company moved further throughout Asia with digital and print titles in Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong – including welcoming India to the fold in the very near future. The root of his success lies in Raj being a very early proponent of the potential for digital platforms to support our region’s creative talent.

Sanjay Puri

Principal Architects, Sanjay Puri Architects
India

Sanjay Puri Architects are listed in the top 100 architects worldwide by Archdaily. Architizer, New York includes Sanjay Puri Architects in their list of the top 136 design firms worldwide. The firm tops the list of WA Community award winners across the world. The firm has won over 270 awards,190 international and over 100 National awards. These include the LEAF Awards ‘London Best Interior Architecture’ in 2021, the World Architecture Festival’s ‘Best Housing Project of the Year’ in 2018 and the ‘World’s Best Residential Building’ in the 2017 LEAF Awards. With a firm strength of 72, evolving design solutions that are contextual and creating spaces that revolutionise the way they are experienced, form the essence of the firm’s design philosophy.

Sarah Bader

Executive Director and Co‑Regional Client Relationship Leader, Principal, Gensler
Japan

As Executive Director and Co-Regional Client Relationship Leader, Sarah leads local and global teams in crafting design solutions that harmonise aesthetic appeal with business objectives for clients worldwide. In her previous roles, she served as the Managing Director of Gensler’s Tokyo office for six years and as Co-Managing Director of the firm’s Chicago office for three years.

Her extensive experience encompasses a variety of industries and project types, ranging from new urban high-rise hospitals to intimate workplace designs. Sarah excels in leading teams within diverse, multicultural environments and consistently prioritises client experience.

Shashi Caan

Founding Partner, SC COLLECTIVE & GloWD
United States of America/United Kingdom

Shashi Caan is internationally celebrated as a multidisciplinary designer, educator, and author whose work highlights the transformative power of design to elevate life quality. As Founder, President, and CEO of GloWD (Globally We Design), SCC (The SC COLLECTIVE), and IFI (International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers), she has spearheaded landmark initiatives, including the IFI Interiors Declaration, the GloWD Universal Design Education Charter, GloWD GEL-Lab and the GloWD World Youth Designer Program.

With 30 years of practice experience and a career spanning continents and disciplines, her prior leadership roles include Design Director at SOM and Chair of Interiors at Parsons. Shashi is widely recognised for her contributions. Broadly honoured with design awards, accolades, and fellowships (from IFI and RSA (world), Latin America, Australia, the UK, and the USA), she actively shapes global design thinking and practice by advancing design excellence and fostering cross-cultural collaboration.

Tiana-Jane Furner (Gomeroi)

Associate, BVN
Australia

Tiana-Jane Furner is an Associate at BVN, and is one of the very few Indigenous practitioners within the Built Environment. Specialising in the Social Agency Stream at the University of New South Wales, Tiana was one of their leading students. With her strong advocacy for social issues, she received the Byera Hadley Travel scholarship for her thesis on How can architecture help reduce the re-offending rate in Australia?

Since starting at BVN Architecture in 2019, Tiana has worked closely with Indigenous Principal Kevin O’Brien. This has allowed her to explore the deep importance of the Designing with Country framework. She has worked on a range of building typologies such as Houses, Hospitals, University Housing and Performing Arts facilities.

Wendy Leung

Director and Head of Australia, M Moser Associates
Australia

Wendy Leung is a Director and Head of Australia for M Moser Associates. Wendy joined M Moser in 1992 and has worked with a wide range of international corporates, to deliver innovative and progressive working environments across APAC.

With an established strength in integrated project delivery, Wendy has lead teams to successfully deliver large complex projects in emerging markets. She is also a leader in sustainability and is a LEED and Greenstar accredited professional.”

Whare Timu (Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa)

Principal, Te Matakirea Lead – Warren and Mahoney
Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Whare Timu is an award-winning architect, cultural advisor, and advocate for indigenous design with over 18 years of experience. Known for integrating cultural narratives into design, Whare has led projects such as the Aurecon Te Tihi, blending indigenous values with sustainable practices, and the He Tohu exhibition, which celebrates New Zealand’s foundational documents through immersive design.

A thought leader and writer, Whare contributes to Architecture NZ and CTI Fresh Thinking for Princeton, focusing on indigenous principles in contemporary practice. He engages with indigenous communities across Aotearoa and beyond, fostering conversations on embedding indigenous perspectives in architecture. A passionate advocate for socially just, sustainable design, Whare creates inclusive spaces that address the needs of indigenous communities, helping shape a responsible, diverse architectural landscape.