INSPIRE
Place Making for all
The Inspire Programme
The Inspire Programme recognises projects that demonstrate excellence, creativity, care, and a genuine commitment to engaging young people in shaping the spaces around them. Over the past four years, we have played a key role in growing a significant community of practice: connecting people, sharing knowledge, and fostering collaboration around inclusive and youth and children-centred design.
By highlighting the value of participation, we help ensure that the design of our cities and communities reflects the needs, ideas, and aspirations of younger generations.
We believe that, by gathering and sharing examples of inspiring practice, exploring different approaches and methods, and celebrating those who are leading the way - we hope to inspire and support other professionals and organisations to join in.
Linking real-world places, problems and design thinking to young people and their environment, also helps to develop their creativity, critical thinking, curiosity and confidence to have meaningful and full engagement in the place making process.
Mission:
To engage children and young people with the built environment and support and professionals and organisations with innovative ways to incorporate them into the decision making process
Key Objectives:
1) Incorporate youth participaory design into architecture, urban design and the built environment
2) Explore and gather innovative methods and approaches
4) Nurture cross-sector collaboration between built environment professionals, developers and local authorities
Programme Structure:
Inspire Future Generations Awards: Our principal aim of running this awards programme is to open up space for young people to be heard, participate in and empowered in decisions about the environments they live, learn, and play in.
Resource Bank: Winning award entries are also added to the TET Resource Bank
Online and in-person Presentations: Each year winners are invited to present their work through a series of TET online presentations as part of our TET Dialogues and are considered as potential panelists for our quarterly TET Dialogue events.
Network & Resources: A supportive network of teachers who are passionate about creative, place-based learning. A community where resources and lesson plans can be shared, as well as ideas, and encouragement, no matter where youʼre based.
Annual Survey: An annual Empowering Environment Report highlighting trends and who is doing what in this field
Directory of consultants and practitioners
