Excellence in Design Award

Sponsored by: ADP Sponsor Pool

School: School of Architecture, Design and Planning

The Excellence in Design celebrates a student graduating from the Bachelor of Design who demonstrate outstanding creativity, innovation, and technical skill in their final year, setting a benchmark for quality and originality in their field.

Money Map: Filling the Gap in Young Australian's Financial Literacy

by  Charli Cameron

Money Map is an interactive tool designed to boost financial confidence in young Australians aged 15-25. It makes learning about money engaging and accessible by providing personalised lessons, quizzes, and tools to help users master core budgeting, saving, and debt-management skills, laying the foundation for lifelong financial wellbeing.

The Forum of Coexistence: Urban Ecological Interpretation Center, Leisure Valley

by  Lisa Sabu

A visionary landscape–architecture project that reimagines Chandigarh’s Leisure Valley as a civic–ecological spine. By weaving water infrastructure, public life, and habitat systems, the Urban Ecological Interpretation Center transforms an underused valley into a living framework of memory, culture, and ecological resilience.