Social & Cultural Agency Award

How interiors engage with people, place, and context through socially and culturally responsive design, shaping meaningful and inclusive experiences.

Event Sponsors

MillerKnoll

Focus:

  • Social relevance, inclusion, and accessibility
  • Cultural awareness and narrative
  • Responsiveness to user, site and context
  • Ethical positioning and intent
  • Consideration of user experience and lived realities

Why:

This award ensures interior projects are grounded in real-world contexts, recognising the role of design in shaping inclusive, meaningful, and responsive experiences for diverse users.

Shortlisted students

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Shortlisted

Alexander Bell

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Shortlisted

Ivana Stoimenovska

University of West London

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Shortlisted

Lucas Connolly

Nottingham Trent University

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Shortlisted

Maria Balaban

Middlesex University London - Interior Design

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Shortlisted

Pamela Sanchez Rodriguez

Kingston University London

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Shortlisted

Patricia Julien-Lambert

University of Huddersfield

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Shortlisted

Rachel Koh

Middlesex University London - Interior Architecture

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Shortlisted

Rachel Masterman

The Glasgow School of Art

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Shortlisted progressing students

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