Inspire Future Generations Awards 2026

Finalists - Announcement 8th December

IDEA Design Hub CIC

Our Climate, Our Classroom -Young Global Citizens Co-designing Sustainable Learning Spaces
Category: Climate Change
Arkki Hungary

Tailor Your City - Climate Crises Special Edition
Category: Climate Change
UArchitects / Misak Terzibasiyan

Floating School
Category: Climate Change
archiKID world

Tehran Mass & Voids: Rethinking Shared Living
Category: Community
**Architecture For Kids

N/A
Category: Community
West of England Combined Authority & Room 13 Hareclive

Kids Go Free
Category: Community
De-a Arhitectura Association

My School Can Be Cool
Category: Community
Falmouth University BA (Hons) Architecture,Brickfield CIC and Architecture Making Community

A community brick-making shelter in Cornwall's clay country
Category: Community
Forest of Imagination

Forest of Imagination | Enter the Chrysalis and River of Dreams
Category: Community
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

Growing Connections: Young People, Nature and Community at Cambridge Science Park
Category: Community
London Borough Waltham Forest + Root & Erect

Child-Friendly Chingford - Memorial Park
Category: Community
Woodland Tribe, Super Roots and Neighbourhood Toolbox

Mary Baily Youth Co-Design and Build Project
Category: Community
archiKID world

Embodied Encounters: Forming the In-Between
Category: Culture
**Architecture for Kids CIC

N/A
Category: Culture
Kai & Arkki Guangzhou – Library and Community Space Project

Kai & Arkki Guangzhou: A Child-Led Library & Community Space Design
Category: Culture
Mulberry Academy London Dock School, Gensler London, Chris Day

Lights of Belonging
Category: Culture
Heatherwick Studio

In The Making
Category: Culture
Urban Children Lab by Utoupie Urbaine

Urban Children Lab transforming industrial playgrounds into participative and creative places
Category: Culture
URBAN LEARNERS

SITC FAMILY AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMME
Category: Culture
N/A **Build Studios

Healthy Homes
Category: Healthy Spaces
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

Young Minds Shaping Healthier Places
Category: Healthy Spaces
London Borough Waltham Forest + East Architects + Betongpark

Child-Friendly Chingford - Chase Lane Park
Category: Healthy Spaces
Places of ARcture

Reimagining Play at IMMA
Category: Healthy Spaces
The Royal Parks and Play:Disrupt

The renewal of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground
Category: Healthy Spaces
Tranquil City, London Heritage Quarter and Grosvenor Property UK

Young People’s Vision for Upper Grosvenor Gardens
Category: Healthy Spaces
WRI Colombia, Fundación Sidoc, Universidad Eafit Escuela de Valor Público, Fundación Despacio, Tecnocentro Cultural Somos Pacífico

Vivo Mi Calle
Category: Healthy Spaces
Architecture at the Edge – Hidden Heritage with Brian Kelly & Grace Gacquin and Dérive

Hidden Heritage
Category: Heritage
Camden Highline with Urban Learners

Tracking the Heritage
Category: Heritage
Donald Insall Associates

Kingsley Hall
Category: Heritage
English Heritage (Shout Out Loud) & the Aardman Academy

Animated Histories
Category: Heritage
Urban Learners

If stones could speak
Category: Heritage
Elevate Board

Waterden Green — young people as co-clients and co-designers
Category: Regeneration
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

Voices Beyond the Mainstream: Reimagining the Future of Cambridge Business Park
Category: Regeneration
Other People's Dreams

Revoe Public Square
Category: Regeneration
Periscope, Diverse Dialogues & London Borough of Redbridge

Ilford Arrival Phase 1
Category: Regeneration
Gareth Roberts Regather & Gleadless Valley Regeneration Team Sheffield City Council

Gleadless Valley Regeneration Youth Panel Project
Category: Regeneration
Taylor Woodrow

Meridian Water
Category: Regeneration
archiKID world

Architecture as a Medium for Interdisciplinary Learning
Category: Research, materials, resource
Sina Shahab, Thomas Smith, Matluba Khan, Neil Harris, and Jessica Richmond

Co-designing Inclusive Parks with Teenage Girls and Young Women
Category: Research, materials, resource
Mott MacDonald and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

Building Safer Communities for Children Toolkit
Category: Research, materials, resource
NGO ARQubator

The Neighbourhood Curriculum Game
Category: Research, materials, resource
N/A **Prosocial Place

Giving Children a Voice in Shaping Healthy Places
Category: Research, materials, resource
Pasanthi Piumika Wickramasinghe

Children's Voices in Designing Child-friendly water features within urban public spaces
Category: Research, materials, resource
Public Spaces Assessment Framework

Safe Vibrant and Healthy Public Spaces
Category: Research, materials, resource
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Creative tool or creative threat?
Category: Skills Development
Caterham School and Arcadis

Caterham School Innovation Centre: Learning through a live project
Category: Skills Development
Katie Fisher

CONNECT
Category: Skills Development
Climate Change All Change

Climate Change All Change primary schools programme 2025-2026
Category: Skills Development
Global Generation

Construction & Craft: Heritage as a tool for inspiring the next generation
Category: Skills Development
Grimshaw Foundation with Hooke Park, Architectural Association, Regent High School, Westminster City School and LaSWAP.

Stargazing Platform: Grimshaw Foundation + AA Hooke Park
Category: Skills Development
Build the Way 2025-2026 x Solus x A. Andrews & Sons x Hawkins\Brown

Recast
Category: Skills Development
RIBA Informal Learning

Skill Up Visits
Category: Skills Development
Urban Minds Planning and Design Studio

1UP Youth City Builders Program
Category: Skills Development
Arcadis and London Gatwick

Blueprints for Change: Reimagining the London Gatwick Masterplan
Category: Strategic Vision
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

Future Places, Young Voices: Engaging Children and Young People in the Greater Cambridge Local Plan Public Consultation Project
Category: Strategic Vision
Periscope & Merton Council

Mitcham Play Way
Category: Strategic Vision
Prosocial Place & Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Queens Belfast

Young Cities
Category: Strategic Vision
TCPA / Gemma Hyde

Plug-in resources for embedding the rights, needs and voices of children and young people in Local Plans
Category: Strategic Vision
Urban&Civic

Young People Shaping Future Places: Turning Participation into Planning
Category: Strategic Vision
archiKID world

Category: Best of Not-for profit organisations
Cambridge Science Centre

Category: Best of Not-for profit organisations
IDEA Design Hub CIC

Category: Best of Not-for profit organisations
Irish Architecture Foundation

Category: Best of Not-for profit organisations
PLACED

Category: Best of Not-for profit organisations
URBAN LEARNERS

Category: Best of Not-for profit organisations
Urban&Civic

Category: Best of Development Company / Estate
AHMM

Category: Best of Built Environment
Caukin Studio

Category: Best of Built Environment
Scott Brownrigg

Category: Best of Built Environment Practice
Crystal Cheung (Arcadis)

Category: Young Talent of the Year
Kate Byrne (Our Creative Community)

Category: Young Talent of the Year
Lilian Boateng (Greater Cambridge Shared Planning)

Category: Young Talent of the Year
Pui Quan Choi (Hawkins Brown)

Category: Young Talent of the Year
Alice Hardy

Category: Individual of the Year
Claire Pollock

Category: Individual of the Year
Jo Harrop (PLACED)

Individual of the Year