JURY

Shorouq Tawfiq 

Co-Founder & Creative Director of Ritz for Interior Design 

A well-known interior design company that operates in Jordan and the region. 

Shorouq with her 15 years of experience developed a portfolio that includes residential and commercial projects, also includes hotels, offices and restaurants. she is recognized for bringing Design Psychology, Feng Shui into her designs. Her focus isn’t just about designing spaces that allow for people to improve their family functioning or work environment. Instead, she also seeks to study, examine, and explain how one’s surroundings impact their behavior in the first place. 

She is fluent in various styles. However, she believes in a contemporary style with a twist, yet also loves the chance to create totally modern interiors sometimes using antiques as punctuation. She believes in a sense of balance and proportion. She has extensive experience in decorative arts.

Another advantages of her wide experience is her furniture design making, long roster of unique sources for furniture, fabric, & objects and her touch of palette for the right colors and color combinations are widely recognized as a specialty in her work. 

Jelena Ristić Trajković is an architect, educator and author. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Architecture within the field of Architectural Design and Contemporary Architecture (2016). Ristic Trajkovic is an Assistant Professor at the Department for Architecture, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Serbia, where she is involved in architectural design courses. She also teaches Design Methodology at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. Her main research focus is on design methodology, design education, social and ecological aspects of design, environment and behavior theories in architectural design and heritage protection, and in particular on appropriate methods to understand different urban narratives. She is involved in several national and international research projects with topics mainly focused on modern heritage, urban narratives, housing, and sustainability.

Energy efficiency in buildings.

Architectural Design and Computational Design