Design Impact Honour 2025 — International: Design Intelligence Applied Unconventionally

Studio Author earns the Design Impact Honour – International 2025 for redefining a clinical typology through bold, unconventional applications of design intelligence. Clinical environments often default to sterility and enclosure — spaces designed more for procedural efficiency than emotional clarity. Their spatial language tends to signal caution, privacy, or even inhibition. Within such typologies, the scope for architectural expression appears limited, and the user experience remains secondary to operational rigour. Yet, typologies like clinics sit at the intersection of vulnerability, aspiration, and care — and therefore hold latent potential for design to shift perception. When designers intervene with intelligence, material […]