ARCHITECTS FOR HEALTH (AfH) STUDENT DESIGN AWARDS 2025
STUDENT DESIGN AWARDS 2025
We are delighted to announce the launch of the AfH Student Design Awards 2025!
The AfH Student Design Awards is an annual design competition for students and 2025 marks our 17th year. As well as promoting good design, AfH is committed to encouraging the next generation to become passionate about the quality of design for health and social care settings. Our goal is to celebrate the opportunities for innovation and experimentation and to bring together students from different disciplines to share their creative ideas.
We are keen to engage students within all design disciplines, including landscape, public art, interior design and architecture who are working on a healthcare brief.
KINDLY SPONSORED BY
Sponsorship of the AfH Student Design Awards is really important to us and means that we can support the students and tutors throughout the year. We invite sponsorship exclusively from architectural practices. More details below…
AWARDS STREAMS
We offer flexible awards streams which are dependent on the type of entries we receive each year and we accept mostly BA and MA level submissions. AfH are also pleased to accept independent students who have a passion for designing healthcare environments. AfH members support colleges and universities where healthcare already forms part of the curriculum, encouraging those undertaking healthcare design projects to extend and embed their learning, through reviews (crits) and seminars on request. If your students are interested in designing for healthcare but this is not part of the curriculum AfH members can support them too by offering a proxy client and/or a link to a local practice available on request – if we have a connection in your area. We work closely with NHS Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups, who can act as proxy clients to support the project through their hospital and community sites. A suitable proxy client can be arranged on request but is not essential.awards
Students who submit their work will receive a complementary AfH membership for one year as part of their registration.
All the submissions are captured in a beautifully designed and produced A4 landscape bound booklet celebrating the students work, and each participant will receive a copy.
Entries are judged by a panel of leading practitioners and clinicians.
Winners will be announced during, an in-person event in London in early July and rewarded with prizes, certificates and the opportunity to discuss their work with others including architectural and design leaders in healthcare.
sponsorship
Sponsorship of the AfH Student Design Awards is invited from Architects practices only. Sponsorship costs just £600 and gives your practice a range of benefits:
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- Practice logo and hyperlink included on AfH Sponsors page for one year, on the event page, notices to members and all advertising of the event (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn). Current sponsors are listed here:
- Inclusion of Practice logo and description in SDA booklet
- Opportunity to join our panel of judges reviewing all entries
- Opportunity to attend the AfH Students Design Awards student seminar and awards ceremony
- If you would like to sponsor the AfH Student Design Awards 2025 please get in touch with our Programme Director.
TIMELINE + ACTIONS 2025
Jan - Mar
AfH will reconnect and invite schools and universities to take part in the AfH Student Design Awards 2025
Jan - May
AfH members can offer reviews/crits/proxy-clients for local universities – available on request at a mutually acceptable time
march
Nomination
- Tutors, please nominate your students by the end of March 2025
- To nominate your students please confirm via email that your student/s would like to take part in the AfH Student Design Awards 2025
- Then please enter their name using Google Sheets (the link to this will be sent to you individually via email after you have confirmed participation)
march - may
Registration
- Nominated students – to take part please register for the AfH Student Design Awards 2025
- Register through the website by becoming an AfH member (the discount code will be provided by your tutor, so please ask your tutor if you haven’t received it)
- Once nominated students have registered, you will receive a one year free membership giving you access to all of our annual events and webinars. After one year, you’ll have the opportunity to continue your membership for a small fee.
- Tutors can also sign up to be an AfH member using the discount code
Submission
- When you have registered, you will receive information on how to submit your work
- The submission deadline is Monday 26 May 2025
june - July
AfH will…
- 27 – 30 May | Collate submissions into categories
- 2 – 23 June | Judges review submissions and score them according to set criteria
- 2 – 23 June | Booklets created and printed
- 23 – 30 June | Scores are moderated, winners selected, prizes prepared and certificates printed! | AfH team compile digital loop and printed booklet
Student Seminar + Award Ceremony | This will be held on 10 July 2025 from 2-8pm at: Perkins & Will (on the 8th floor), 150 Holborn, London EC1N 2NS
- 2-3pm | Students, tutors, judges, sponsors arrive
- 3-6pm | Student seminar
- 6-7pm | Refreshment break
- 7-8pm | Awards ceremony
CONTACT
For further details of the programme and to register please contact the Student Design Awards team here
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