2025 INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS

Finalists - Congratulations!

Finalists for the Inspire Awards 2025, across 10 categories, have been announced. Scroll down to meet all of them. All finalists logos are available at the bottom of this page. If you want to have a look back at this year IFGA Categories or at the Judging panel, simply clicks on the links provided.

Inspiring Individuals

Individual of the Year

  • Abigail Gaines

  • Alice Hardy

  • Maz Weineck

  • Neil Onions

Young Talent

  • Ananya Sebastian

  • Gemma Hyde

  • Yang Yang Chen

  • Maryam Wangeshi

Projects

Climate Change

  • alma-nac

    Net Zero Needs Everyday Heroes

  • Arkki Guangzhou, Arkki International Ltd and Women's Federation of Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City

    Guangzhou 3025 – Connected Future: Sustainable Future City

  • Dream Networks CIC

    Playful Engineers: Sustaining Local Communities

  • Grosvenor Property UK

    Greener Futures

  • Street Space

    Pathways to Nature

Community

  • Arup, Ocupa tu Calle and Peaton Cix

    Urrunaga Te Cuida

  • Barefoot Architects and Wellspring Settlement

    The Swannery

  • Edit with DSDHA, Young People for Inclusion, and Somers Town Community Association Youth Club

    Purchese Street Social Space

  • Harper Perry, Newcastle City Council and Newcastle University

    Dwellbeing Shieldfield

  • London Borough of Hackney, Notting Hill Genesis, Berkeley Homes and RC/YYC

    The Woodberry Down Pavilion

  • MATT+FIONA, Fitzrovia Youth in Action, LDA Design, HS2 and MDJ

    Reflect at the National Temperance Hospital Garden

Safety and Inclusiveness

  • drumrum Raumschule in cooperation with the Frau+SIA Basel network

    GIRLS CITY – Regio Basel (CH–DE)

  • GOSH Arts and MATT+FIONA

    Safe Streets Campaign

  • Publica Campaign for Inclusive Cities

    Right to the city

  • Suffolk County Council - Active Travel Team

    Streets for all: working with children to create streets that work better for everyone

Education

  • Architecture After School Club and Pitzhanger Gallery & Manor

    Architecture After-School Club

  • Associació Construint a la Sala

    Construint a la Sala

  • Camden Highline and Urban Learners

    Tracking the Heritage Education Programme

  • DESIGNBLOOM.CIC

    DesignBloom - School for STEM, Art & Architecture

  • Shape My School Programme Partners (Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff Commitment, Industry Partners and Cardiff's Primary Schools)

    Shape My School programme

Culture

  • Architecture At The Edge – Design Lab, Sean Connolly & Cormac Adams (Untouched Lands)

    Untouched Lands

  • Enable Foundation 啟民創社 (Hong Kong / London)

    “Objects -Talk” Empathic Ecologies Education EEE Project 賽馬會「萬物語」創意生態計劃

  • NOOMA Studio

    Play Cycles

  • Publica Greater Cambridge Shared Planning for Inclusive Cities

    Our Public Art – Border Realm

  • The Architectural Thinking School for Children

    IntelliGens Play Lab

  • Westminster City Council (Culture and Place Shaping) with The Portman Estate and Root and Erect

    Designing the Magic Carpet at Nutford Place

Healthy Spaces

  • Analog Architecture + Situated Studio

    GATHER pop up community orchard

  • Brain Child, Mallika Joy, Maia Magoga and Dream Networks CIC

    Peckham’s Fruit Market Play Street

  • GOSH Arts and MATT+FIONA

    Safe Streets Campaign

  • Hugh Dames

    Adventure Learning Parks as Healthy Spaces

Material resources and Research

  • Dinah Bornat (ZCD Architects)

    All to play for: How to Design Child Friendly Housing

  • Cornwall Council and the Environment Agency

    CoastCraft: Education game about adapting to coastal change on the Minecraft education platform

  • María Fernanda Arias Godoy (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (FAU-USP))

    Handbook to Listen to Children about their Cities

  • Play:Disrupt part of Public Map

    Symbology: Bringing digital maps to life with young people

  • Tolulope Faleti (Enfield Council, UAL)

    Primary City - Urban Literacy for Children

Regeneration

  • Barbican Renewal and Beyond the Box CIC

    Barbican Renewal Co-Design Programme

  • Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and A Playful City

    Love Our Laneways

  • Heather Stimpson and IDEA Design Hub CIC

    Regenerating Learning: Children’s Voices in the Built Environment — Old Oak & NEST

  • London Borough of Wandsworth

    All Together Alton

  • make:good

    Carpenters’ Young Designers Programme

Skills Development

  • Beata Patuszynska, cityforchildren.pl

    City for children

  • Build The Way

    Build The Way

  • Grimshaw Foundation

    Grimshaw Foundation Treehouse Build 2025

  • PLACED Academy

    PLACED Academy

  • Stanton Williams

    Future Architects Programme

  • Worcester Community Trust, Worcester City Council, Askew Cavanna Architects, GLP Training

    Worcester Community Skills Project

Strategic Visions

  • Camden Council Community Investment Programme, Ballymore, Lateral – public/private partnership

    Camley Street Community Engagement

  • Forest of Imagination (Bath Spa University)

    Forest of Imagination

  • Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

    A Shared Vision for North Cambridge for our CYP!

  • Placemaking with Young Adults (Lancaster University and Lancaster City Council)

    Placemaking with Young Adults (PYA)

  • ZCD Architects and Van Leer Foundation

    Family Voices Toolkit

Best Of…

Best of Built Enviroment Practice

  • Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

  • AtkinsRéalis

  • NOOMA Studio

  • SHH Architecture & Interiors

  • Stanton Williams

  • ZCD Architects

Best of Development Company

  • Gen Two Real Estate

  • Places for London

  • TOWN

Best of Local Authority

  • London Borough of Camden

  • Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

  • Richmond and Wandsworth Council's Planning Engagement Team

  • Westminster City Council’s Place Shaping Team

Best of Not for profit Organisation

  • Beyond The Box CIC

  • Global Generation

  • PLACED

  • Places of ARcture

  • Royal Insitute of British Architects

Best of University

  • Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL

  • Ravensbourne University London

  • School of Architecture, Art and Design, University of Portsmouth

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