2025 Design for Freedom Competition: Ethical and Equitable Materiality to End Forced Labor

THE OPPORTUNITIES

Ethical & Equitable Materiality: To End Forced Labor is a student competition that will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories:

CATEGORY I: DESIGN PROJECT

Offers architecture students the opportunity to select a site and building program using Design for Freedom Principles and Toolkit to design more ethically and equitably.

CATEGORY II: MATERIALS RESEARCH

Allows architecture students to research material sourcing to existing and new industry-wide practices and material transparency measurements and adopt shorter material supply chain methods to create a more ethical and equitable future.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION

Grace Farms leads Design for Freedom, the global movement to eliminate forced labor from the building materials supply chain. Grace Farms is partnering with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) to announce a student design competition for the 2024-2025 academic year. The competition is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore how architectural materials research and design can eliminate forced labor in the building materials supply chain – to explore and propose how architects can work to eradicate forced and child labor from the built environment.