2025 INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS

Winners & Commendations

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

2025 Winners and Commendation - Congratulations!

  • Alma-nac, Net Zero Needs Everyday Heroes

    Category: Climate Change

    Behaviour-change programme across 23 schools helping pupils and staff cut energy use and carbon emissions. Using data, creativity and collaboration, students became the driving force for measurable change within their own school buildings.

    Output: Winner

  • Harper Perry, Newcastle City Council and Newcastle University, Dwellbeing Shieldfield

    Category: Community

    A community-led project developing a strategy for Shieldfield, an inner-urban neighbourhood in Newcastle. The three phases include research and scoping, strategic plan-making, and implementing this strategy in improvements to a central public space to make it more inclusive for the community.

    Output: Winner

  • GOSH Arts and MATT+FIONA, Safe Streets Campaign

    Category: Safety and Inclusiveness

    Co-designed with local young people and hospital patients to respond to new road layouts and construction traffic linked to the Children’s Cancer Centre build. The project delivered bespoke Traffic Marshal uniforms for contractors and a series of bold vinyls and posters along the route, using youth-led workshops to turn safety messaging into a visible, community-owned street presence.

    Output: Winner

  • Architecture At The Edge – Design Lab, Sean Connolly & Cormac Adams, Untouched lands

    Category: Culture

    As part of the Design Lab, a team worked with 15–17-year-old students from Coláiste Bhaile Chláir to co-design and build a pavilion as a hands-on learning space. Rooted in the “Untouched Lands” narrative and inspired by Irish fairy forts, the project combined architecture, art and storytelling to explore form, materials and sustainable practice while foregrounding respect for land and biodiversity.

    Output: Winner

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


    Category: Education

    A two-year programme that helps pupils (ages 9–11) co-design and deliver improvements to their school environments, using the school building as a hands-on learning tool for the built environment. It combines curriculum-linked workshops with real implementation, building children’s agency while creating a practical model for school–industry collaboration.

    Output: Winner

  • Brainchild, Mallika Joy, Maia Magoga and Dream Networks CIC Peackham’s Fruit Market Play Street

    Category: Healthy Spaces

    A vibrant, community-led play installation co-designed with children in Peckham, transforming an underused space into the Rye Lane Fruit Palace - a joyful, culturally inspired playground celebrating diversity, creativity, and wellbeing through inclusive, playful design.

    Output: Winner

  • Hugh Dames, Adventure Learning Parks as Healthy Spaces

    Category: Healthy Spaces

    An active research project that works with schools to bring learning outdoors, using parks and school grounds as places where subjects come to life.

    Output: Commendation

  • Dinah Bornat (ZCD Architects) - All to play for: How to Design Child Friendly Housing

    Category: Material resources and research

    An evidence-led book aimed at changing how housing is planned, designed and delivered in the UK and beyond by embedding child-friendly principles in policy, engagement and design. Drawing on a decade of research and European case studies, it shows how designing through children’s needs leads to healthier, more resilient and socially connected communities.

    Output: Joint Winner

  • Play:Disrupt part of Public Map - Symbology: Bringing digital maps to life with young people

    Category: Material resources and research

    A research project in Anglesey building a digital mapping tool that combines young people’s lived experience with organisational data to make local evidence more accessible and actionable in planning. Play:Disrupt co-designed, with children and young people, a creative process for making animated, story-rich map symbols: using workshops and iterative prototyping to help communities represent how places feel, not just how they look.

    Output: Joint Winner

  • Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and A Playful City - Love Our Laneways 


    Category: Regeneration

    A community-led regeneration of Pearse Drive Laneway (“the Gaps”) in Sallynoggin, Dublin, transforming an overlooked, unsafe cut-through into a safe, green and playful connector between homes, schools and local facilities. It used a phased, prototype-first process — with children and young people actively shaping decisions — to deliver permanent upgrades such as lighting, seating, rain gardens, artwork and play features, creating a replicable model for suburban placemaking.

    Output: Winner

  • PLACED - PLACED Academy

    Category: Skills Development

    A free, long-term pathway (ages 11–26) launched in 2019 to remove barriers into built-environment careers and help young people build the skills and confidence to shape places. In 2024–25 it supported 284 participants across four programmes, combining hands-on design learning, live projects with public partners, and mentoring.

    Output: Winner

  • Bath Spa University - Forest of Imagination 


    Category: Strategic Vision

    Forest of Imagination turned Bath’s former Entry Hill golf course into a temporary trail of art and nature interventions, inviting people to rediscover this “forgotten” landscape. It served as a proof of concept for a future Art, Nature & Wellbeing Park, supporting Bath’s wider “Landscape City” vision through community co-design and nature connection.

    Output: Winner

  • Global Generation

    Category: Best of Not for profit Organisation

    Output: Winner

  • NOOMA Studio

    Category: Best of Built Environment Practice

    Output: Winner

  • Places for London

    Category: Best of Development Company

    Output: Winner

  • TOWN

    Category: Best of Development Company

    Output: Commendation

  • Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

    Category: Best of Local Authority

    Output: Joint Winner

  • London Borough of Camden

    Category: Best of Local Authority

    Output: Joint Winner

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

    Category: Best of University

    Output: Joint Winner

  • Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL

    Category: Best of University

    Output: Joint Winner

  • Yang Yang Chen

    Category: Young Talent

    Output: Winner

  • Neil Onions

    Category: Individual of the Year

    Output: Winner

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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

  • Brainchild, 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