First prize, a cheque for £5,000, was awarded to a collaborative project, Art Spaces lead global ecology of ideas, by architects, Manuel Shvartzberg and Yiannis Kanakakis with writer Fabian Faltin. Their winning entry took the form of Financial Times news pages, addressing arts spaces, environmental issues, and challenging the concept of architectural competitions.
In the view of the judges the winning entry was: "A sophisticated challenge to the brief, nailing the real issues…. A very thorough response - positive but critical, a commentary and critique connecting art to the personal, public and political."