Student Design Awards briefs
Healthy hearts
How might we improve cardiovascular health and address health inequalities?
Transformation station
How might we leverage unrealised spaces in small transport hubs, as catalysts for communities and places to thrive?
Hybrid home
How might we improve the experience for the increasing number of people with hybrid working patterns?
Steel appeal
How might we apply circular economy principles to increase and encourage the reuse of steel from decommissioned oil platforms?
Collective imagination
How might we build the capacity and capability of local communities to collectively imagine the future they desire?
Press play
How might we support all families, carers and communities to play and learn more creatively at home?
Without waste
How might we use circular economy principles to rethink the storage, delivery and dispensing of tablet medication?
Active journeys
How might we make multi-modal travel (a combination of walking, wheeling, cycling and sustainable rail networks) accessible and inclusive to improve the experience for all?
Moving pictures
Conceive and produce an animation to accompany one of the two selected audio files that will clarify, energise and illuminate the content
Global bursary
A needs-based bursary for international students to cover the cost of the SDA submission fee.
Closes 21 February 2022.


RSA Student Design Awards
Our competition for emerging designers who want to make a difference.