Award Category

Interior & Furniture Design

Environments and designs that inspire pride, comfort, and adaptability
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Coliving interiors should go beyond aesthetics - they must create a deep sense of belonging, comfort, and identity while seamlessly adapting to residents' diverse needs and lifestyles. Thoughtfully designed environments provide a sanctuary while also fostering social connection, offering a balance between private and shared experiences.

This category recognises designers who push the boundaries of interior and FF&E innovation, integrating biophilia, modularity, circularity, sociability, and personalisation into coliving spaces. Whether through smart furniture solutions, sensory-friendly environments, or hybrid-use designs that support work-life integration, these innovations redefine how we experience shared living.

For whom?

Interior designers, product designers, furniture designers, design studios, in-house design teams.

Criteria

  1. Comfort & Personalisation: Your product / design offers flexibility and personalisation, fostering a sense of ownership, pride, identity, comfort, and wellbeing among users.
  2. Innovative Manufacturing & Design Process: Your product / design is created through a transparent, efficient, and sustainable manufacturing system/design process.
  3. Use of Innovative & Sustainable Materials: Your product/design uses cutting-edge, sustainable practices and materials (e.g., biophilia, modularity, prefabrication, upcycling, etc.), contributing to its long-term sustainability and environmental impact.
  4. Fosters Wellbeing, Interaction, Productivity & Creativity: Your product / design enhances social interaction, productivity, and creativity, enabling residents and the public to engage meaningfully within the space.
  5. Scalability & Durability: Your product / design is created with scalability, circularity, and long-term durability in mind, ensuring it adapts to different settings and continues to serve its purpose effectively over time.

Deliverables

Below we have summarised the deliverables for your application. Please also make sure to download the application guide and presentation template by following the buttons below to make sure you read all necessary information to have a successful Coliving Awards entry. Note that every category has its own application guide!

1. Presentation including:

  • Name
  • Organisation
  • Logo (if applicable)
  • Details about specific project / site / product in English
  • Responses to questions in the application guide and additional resources requested in the eligibility and evaluation criteria, such as including qualitative and quantitative data and any other metrics that inform your the creation of your product / design
  • Presentation should be max 20 slides / pages and in PDF format (16:9 horizontal format). Please see the presentation template below for reference

2. High level summary of your project submission in the Application portal and answer to all application questions.

3. Supporting images / renders (in high resolution JPG / PNG -> 150 dpi) in ZIP format** (max 10 images). Files to be named in the following format " organisation-projectname-image# “

4. Representative project image (max 10 MB) to be used as a thumbnail in the application portal and other relevant communication from Coliving Awards about your project

5. It should be clear that your project meets the criteria for this category

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