ASF Award 2025
Rules
1. Participants and Eligibility
- The competition is open for all: ASF Members and non ASF Members, students and professionals from all the disciplines of design. Teams and individuals.
- The challenge is open worldwide for anyone to participate.
2. Registration Fees
- The competition is free of charge to all participants
3. Award
- Prize money of 750€
- Prize money (for the special Category: Post-Disaster Projects): 750 €.
- The winners will be rewarded with Certificates of Achievements and publication on ASF-Int website and social media.
4. Type and Scope Of Entries
- The competition is open for all types of entries, both completed and ongoing projects.
- The scope of entries: Designed Built environments, Design Interventions, Participatory Workshops, Educational Initiatives, Social and Cultural Upliftment and Economic Proposals, realised after the year 2020.
- The type of projects can range from small scale to a larger urban context, varying from architectural projects, urban planning and design interventions , environmental and landscape architecture, Industrial design, educational, cultural, economic interventions and projects with relevance to social participation processes.
5. General Framework of Content
It’s important to recognize, in a competition like this, the diverse nature of the projects and the different contexts—economic, ecological, and social—in which they are developed. Despite these differences, all projects share a common goal: to address challenges in architecture or urban planning that affect underprivileged, marginalized, or vulnerable communities. To fairly compare the projects and assess how closely they align with this goal, a set of clear criteria must be established. With this in mind, entries should emphasize the following aspects:
6. Time Schedule
April 2025: Launch of the Award
21st June 2025 (23:59 GMT): Closing day for submissions
Sept. 2025: Award ceremony at the ASF General Assembly in Johannesburg, South Africa
Sept. 2025: Exhibition of the best proposals
7. Submission
Proposals for the award need to be sent by email to: award@asfint.org
The proposal should consist of three documents:
1. Description
(required format: doc / rtf / pdf, maximum size 3 MB)
- Project name
- Project lead (If applicable)
- ASF International Member Organization (If applicable)
- Names and Roles of Client(s & Partners) (If applicable)
- Total Costs (If applicable)
- Main Sources of Funding (If applicable)
- Project Start Date (If applicable)
- Project End Date (If applicable)
- Project Description: What is your project? (Max. 200 words)
- Choose three issues most relevant to your project listed in the Hasselt Charter and explain how your project addresses them? (Max. 3 x 200 words.)
2. Two press IMAGES of your project/initiative
Required format: jpg / pdf
3. A PDF of 1-4 Landscape A3s with images and text
Please see the attached template for placement of images and text on the panels. The first panel should contain the basic information of the project and each of the other three other panels explain, how the submission addresses three chosen aspects listed in the founding principles of ASF, the Hasselt Charter. The content of the materials on the panels is free (photographs, drawings, text, diagrams etc.). Minimum text size on the panels is 11 pt. Recommended font for proposals is Gill Sans or other sans serif font. (required format: pdf, maximum size 12 MB. Please see the given template for instructions for placement of images and text.)
8. Judging Criteria
The entries will be judged by an international jury of the competition on the following criteria:
- How has the project addressed the concerns raised in the Hasselt Charter?
- Functional suitability and contextual emphasis of the project / proposal.
- How has the beneficiary participated in the overall project process?
- How has the Economics of the project / proposal worked out and been managed ?
- Are there any sustainable solutions / Innovations (economical, ecological, social, technological etc.)
- What are the development/application possibilities?
The judging panel can also add other criteria based on their internal discussions
9. Jury
The members of the jury or organising team can not submit projects for the award. Jury members shall under no circumstances be contacted by competition participants or their representatives. Participants who attempt to contact jury members, shall be disqualified. All jury members are involved in the evaluation based on their availability at that time. Jury panels consist of architects, in addition to professionals from other professional backgrounds that are relevant to the competition topic, to guarantee the most objective competition results.
10. Copyright
The rights of the submitted material will stay with the owners, but ASF International can use the submitted materials in the communication of the organization when the source of the materials is clearly mentioned.
11. Guarantees
Candidates declare that they own all of the rights on the Project submitted for consideration to the Award. This protects the Organisers against any problem, plea, action or claim from a third party over the Project submitted as well as the rights transferred as listed in Article 11 of the ASF AWARD 2025 COMPETITION TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
12. Personal Data
- The personal data (‘Data’) of candidates to the Award will be processed as per the provisions of this Article. Data processing is managed by ASF Int (Organisers), who are responsible for it and delegate this task to a provider.
- Some Data will be collected from candidates for the purposes of the Award. This Data will be collected through emails at the time of application.
- Data are collected with the legitimate intent to keep them, so that Organisers can contact candidates post nomination.
- Data access is only granted, in a limited way, to the employees of Organisers who need to access this Data to perform their duties. These employees have a strict duty of confidentiality with regards to this Data (especially, the people in charge of the coordination of the award).
- Organisers keep Data on their servers. Organisers make sure that any Data collected is not damaged, destroyed or divulged to unauthorised third parties. Organisers make the necessary technical and logistical arrangements to ensure Data is secure during its processing and retention, such as securing access to the premises and servers, securing the IT system where the Data is saved, encrypting emails through an SSL certificate, and so on.
- In accordance with GDPR regulations (enforced 25 May 2018) and the Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology files and freedom, subsequently modified on 20 June 2018, anyone whose Data is collected has a right of access, rectification, restriction and erasure of their Data; a right of portability of Data, as well a right to decide how the Data is managed after their death. Affected individuals can also refuse, for legitimate reasons, the processing of part or all of their Data.
- Anyone wanting to action one of these rights can get in contact with Award team (Organisers) by email-award@asfint.org responsible for personal Data on behalf of the Organisers.
- Affected individuals can also lodge an appeal with the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés) in case of any violation by the Organisers further to a request to exercise one of these rights, or in general about the applicable regulations about personal data protection.
13. More information
All communication regarding the competition should only be carried out with ASF International. For any questions please contact us by email: award@asfint.org
