Organised by the International Interior Design Association, the Student Design Competition celebrates original design and rewards individuals and/or teams whose projects demonstrate innovative, functional design solutions that have a positive environmental and human impact, while allowing emerging professionals the opportunity to showcase their work and fresh design ideas to professionals working in the field.

The 2015 edition invites you to conceptualize the future of an urban university mixed-use building that integrates the multiple functions associated with a higher education campus while considering adaptive learning, integration of corporate and business resources, community involvement, and alternative education resources.

Encouraging collaboration, health and well-being, and sustainability should be evident in your final design. It should also address new strategies and approaches to higher education.

School projects already completed may be reinterpreted and/or edited to meet the requirements of this competition.

Entry fee for IIDA Student Members is 25 USD; for Non-Members is 75 USD.

Eligibility

Open to students around the world who are currently enrolled at an Interior Design program or institution. Participants can enter individually or as a team (maximum 5 people).

Prize

• First Place: 2,500 USD
• Second Place: 1,500 USD
• Third Place: 750 USD

Winners will be selected by a jury of interior design and business professionals who will judge entries based on innovation and creativity, coherence and functionality, human impact, fulfillment of program requirements, and presentation of the information.

Winners will be announced in the Spring 2016 issue of Quad, IIDA's newsletter for students, and featured in DesignMatters and on the IIDA website.