The national awards of the Perit profession needed to feel like more than a ceremony. They needed an identity, a voice, and a structure that could hold meaning, year after year.
Context
Premju Emanuele Luigi Galizia is delivered by Kamra tal-Periti and stands as Malta’s most established awards programme for the built environment. Although it celebrates architecture, engineering, and related disciplines, it is ultimately an awards platform for the Perit profession, maintained by the Chamber and anchored in its standards.
For the 2025 edition, Joeaby served as Artistic Director, on behalf of I+A, commissioned by Kamra tal-Periti to lead the overall creative direction of the awards. The brief was not simply to refresh visuals, but to shape how the awards would communicate, what they would stand for, and how they would be experienced across the full programme.
Fit & Intent
The ambition was to build something that speaks clearly to two audiences at once. To the profession, the awards needed to feel worthy of the work being recognised. To the public, they needed to feel legible and relevant, without turning architecture into an internal club language.
At the centre of the work was identity, not as a logo, but as behaviour. What does the awards programme reward, encourage, and make visible? What sort of culture does it reinforce through its tone, structure, and choices?
Direction
The edition was framed around a single idea: What would Galizia be doing today? That prompt turned the programme into a live inquiry rather than a tribute. It allowed the awards to speak about present-day responsibility, craft, and contribution, instead of simply commemorating the past.
A clearer evaluation reference was embedded using the Davos Baukultur Quality System, giving the programme a shared language for quality beyond style or preference, and helping the conversation stay connected to cultural value.
The programme was designed to work as a full cycle rather than a single evening. That meant building not only the outward identity and event experience, but also the practical structure behind it. Procurement, budgeting, and delivery systems were formalised and tracked through an internal ERP process, and the edition’s outputs were organised into a consolidated archive so the work could carry forward rather than disappear once the week ended.
Outcome
Premju E.L. Galizia Awards 2025 was delivered as a coherent programme with a stronger identity, clearer narrative, and a more deliberate way of operating. The result was an edition that communicated with more intention, reinforced the awards as a platform of the profession, and left behind a structure that future editions can build on.
