Inspire Future Generations Awards
(now open)
About the IFG Awards
The 2021 IFG Awards are now closed but you can see the Short List here. The Winners will be announced on Tuesday 16th November 2021.
The 2022 inaugural IFG Schools/Collaborations Awards will be open for entries in the New Year.
Open to practitioners, built environment professionals and the private/public sector, the Inspire Future Generations Awards aim to recognise people and initiatives globally that have been working with children and young people - helping them to engage in and advocate for a better built environment. They’re the first awards of their kind for all built environment professionals in the UK.
Winning entries will need to demonstrate how they have made a tangible impact on closing the gap between architecture and education, through activity, collaboration or research.
Successful initiatives, organisations and individuals will need to show how they have encouraged children and young people to engage in and advocate for a better built environment, and will demonstrate best practice and innovation.
The FAQ gives other important information and also set out the guidelines for judging. Awards are free or low-cost and easy to enter, and several awards carry a £500 prize.
Each year, we will add the winning award entries to the TET resource bank so that others can learn from these case studies.
In School Awards categories coming in 2022
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Enter 2021 Awards Categories
Informal Learning Activity
Activities/events/festivals that explore architecture as a creative learning tool /co-design outside of the traditional structure of school. These can be aimed at children and teenagers, taking place once only, annual or as an ongoing initiative.
Youth Engagement Programme
Longer-term projects with a focus on developing young people’s design skills and awareness. Projects could involve range of stakeholders - local authorities, housing associations, youth centres, developers and practices, alongside young people and own organisation. We also welcome submissions from programmes exploring issues such as public space, community, well-being and regeneration.
Diversity in Action
Inclusive initiatives that represent young people of specific communities and responding to their particular concerns and needs.
Research
There is surprisingly little academic/cultural research in the field of engaging children and young people in architecture. This category will recognise excellence and encourage further research.
Online Resource
This category welcomes applications from resources that may be purely digital, or analogue activities that are accessed online.
Most Innovative Organisation
Private and public sector organisations pioneering transformative ways of approaching youth engagement or architecture education. This award is also open to architectural education organisations demonstrating considerable impact and best practice through their programmes.
Individual of the Year
Recognising the work undertaken by an individual practitioner - whether they work independently or as part of a team; someone who has made an outstanding contribution to our theme ‘Inspiring Future Generations’. Please nominate individuals.
Get inspired
Neil Pinder, TET Trustee and Head of Product and Design at Graveney School, London, launches the awards programme and gives a brief insight into the impact that such projects can deliver for children and young people