Student Design Challenge
The BIID Student Design Challenge is an annual, day long competition for final year university students of interior design and interior architecture.
Student Design Challenge Benefits
Professional Mentorship
Work with a professional mentor to gain valuable industry insight.
Student Design Challenge Trophy
Impress the judges to take home the coveted award for best team.
Work to a brief
Experience what it is like to work in a design team with an exciting brief.
Challenge yourself
Throw yourself into a fun, full on and fast paced day of design, innovation and creativity.
Presentation Skills
Hone your skills to win the bid by effectively communicating your design decisions during the quick-fire presentation round.
Network with students from across the UK
Engage with your peers over lunch and refreshments.
Get involved in the BIIDs annual design competition for final year interior design and interior architecture students THE CHALLENGE
The BIID Student Design Challenge is an annual, day long competition for final year university students of interior design and interior architecture.
Universities are represented by their team, who have just 6 hours to turn a brief, given to them on the day, into a cohesive design for a panel of judges.
Past briefs have included; a start-up space for entrepreneurs, a temporary shelter for displaced refugees, a job centre for the ‘third age’ and a youth radio station and performance venue.
- The stakes are high; only three teams can place, and they have only five minutes to present their designs to the judges.
- The challenge has been running since 2015
- The judges are all industry experts
- Each team is assigned a professional mentor
- The day is completely CAD free
- The winning team takes home the Student Design Challenge trophy
"The BIID student challenge was a great experience. The skills and knowledge I've gained from this will help my career as an interior designer in the future."
Georgia Hayes, Student, University of Hertfordshire
In the first in a new series on collaboration we examine why supplier relationships are so important.
BIID President, Lester Bennet, would like to wish all our members a happy 2021.
BIID has welcomed a range of new members and Industry Partners over the last three months.