Entries Now Open: 2021 IFI DDA Awards Competition
IFI DESIGN DISTINCTION AWARDS (IFI DDA) 2021 COMPETITION ENTRIES NOW OPEN
Recognizing the World’s Best Built Projects
IFI’s Design Distinction Awards (IFI DDA) is a global design competition recognizing excellence in designed outcomes of Interiors’ built projects from across the world.
IFI DDA recipients are leading the way in the Interior Architecture/Design practice through their built work; contributing at the highest level to raising the bar on design innovation and excellence. These projects creatively demonstrate design’s impact on the value and well-being of society and culture.
Highlighting the Best in Creative Talent
Eligible projects must be design works produced within the last three years. Works do not have to have been built for consideration in the Student category only.
ENTRY FEES
PROFESSIONAL: USD$250
EARLY BIRD PROFESSIONAL: USD$200
(submitted by 1 April w/ code IFIDDAEARLYBIRD)
STUDENT: USD$60
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
ENTRIES CLOSE: 31 May 2021
IFI Design Distinction Awards (IFI DDA) trophies designed by Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD) and produced by CITCO
10 COMPETITION CATEGORIES
COMMERCE
including retail spaces, showrooms and innovation spaces
HABITAT
including dwellings, domicile and places of abode, medical and nursing facilities
HEALTH
including hospitals, medical and nursing facilities
HUMANITARIAN
including museums and galleries, sports arenas, places of worship, performing arts centers, libraries
LEARNING
including schools, colleges, universities, learning and educational facilities
PLAY
including restaurants and bars, retail spaces, fitness and wellness centers
STAY
including hotels and guesthouses
STUDENT
design projects related to any other IFI DDA entry category, by a current full-time or recently graduated Interior Architecture/Design student
SUSTAINABILITY
exemplary integrated design solutions that improve well-being whilst reducing negative impacts on the environment
WORK
including offices, industrial spaces and technical labs
The IFI DDA jurors, to be announced soon, represent preeminent design leaders from a cross-section of the highest caliber design firms and institutions across the world.
Winners Announced at Gala Dinner in São Paulo, Brazil
IFI GAP will culminate with the IFI GAP Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony, held in conjunction with the IFI CONGRESS in November 2021 in São Paulo, Brazil. With concern for everyone’s health and safety, and understanding the yet unknown capacity for travel in November, the IFI CONGRESS and IFI GAP Awards Ceremony are being planned in a hybrid format. We are taking this opportunity to expand the program and make it more accessible through both digital and in-person components, providing the potential for multi-location, multi-time zone programs.
LEARN MORE ABOUT IFI GAP 2021 AT
www.ifiworld.org/GAP
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The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) is the global voice and authority for professional Interior Architects/Designers. As the singular Federation of Associations, IFI acts as a global forum for the exchange and development of professional practice, knowledge and experience, along with education, research and design advocacy worldwide. IFI connects the international community to further the impact, influence and application of the design of interiors, promote social responsibility, and raise the global status of the profession. An international not-for-profit, founded in 1963, IFI expands the international network of professional Interior Architects/Designers.IFI believes in the power of Design as a vehicle for human betterment and productive improvement. IFI recognizes that all people are equal across the world and that well-designed environments help to uplift humanity and civil society. It promotes equal rights and access to Interior Architecture/ Design practice, research and education to be granted equally to all who wish to pursue it. This is regardless of race, gender, creed, sexual orientation, cultural heritage and socio-economic background, and not-withstanding disparities brought forth across different regional contexts. That good and quality Design requires to foundationally take into consideration these and other such evolving factors as technological innovation, globalization, economic and political instability and social inequality, as well as holistic consideration of the environmental/sustainable factors.
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