Projects from each of the UK’s 51 RIBA-accredited architecture schools have been nominated for the AJ Student Prize 2019. In its second year, the AJ invited every RIBA-accredited school in the UK to select their top two student projects – one at undergraduate level and one at postgraduate level – to compete for the AJ Student Prize.

In early September, an expert jury consisting of Pippa Nissen of Nissen Richards Studio, Ed Fowles of Feilden Fowles Architects, Ken Okonkwo of Haworth Tompkins and Meredith Bowles of Mole Architects will have the task of choosing three winning projects with the winners will be announced later in the month.

Siong Yu-Hsiang Wang (AADipl 2019) has been nominated at postgraduate level for his project ‘The Cultural Odyssey: Towards an Atopian Museum’. The project seeks to negotiate post-colonial debates in museology about the centralisation of artefacts in the west, to break the loops within the current art world systems and to mobilise cultural artefacts as ‘relational objects’ (to use Lygia Clarke’s phrase) and to leak them into various social conditions. With today’s systems of digital preservation, museum artefacts can be transposed into new relationships, spaces and social scenarios through reproduction and the use.

Read more about Siong Yu-Hsiang Wang’s project on the AA Projects Review website

See the full list of nominated students on the AJ website