Alastair Swayn Foundation reveals winners of round one 2024 grants program

The Alastair Swayn Foundation has announced the winners of its 2024 round one grants program, with the successful candidates awarded funding for design-related research.

The 2024 round one program opened on 1 March 2024 with two funding streams available: Design Thinking Grants and Design Strategy Grants. Entries were assessed by a panel comprising our Edwina Jans, Graeme Dix, Gay Williamson, Sanda Loschke and Tiffany Liew, alongside jury chair Neil Hobbs.

The successful applicants of the Design Thinking Grant were awarded $5,000 to undertake a research project in architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, heritage preservation and restoration, adaptive re-use of architecture or product design, and designing for accessibility. The Design Strategy Grant provided $10,000 to successful entries, enabling them to conduct research on significant challenges within the fields of architecture and design in Australia.

The foundation has also revealed the 2024 round two grants program will open on Friday 2 August. Round two will offer opportunities to apply for an International Research Grant of $15,000 and Design Audio Grants of $8,000 until 30 August 2024.

The 2024 round one category winners are:

Linda Carroli - Design strategy for Indigenous Art Centres as workplaces: decent work and sustainable livelihoods by design

Claire Brophy, Nicole Vickery, Abigail Winter, Jane Turner and Margaret MacAndrew - Making Memories Visible: Design for Meaningful Engagement in Residential Aged Care

Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal and Charles Curtin - A survey of recent prefabricated dwellings in Australia

QUT and Heather McKinnon - Flooded and Wasted: Promoting Circular Economy Principles into Post-disaster Cleanup

Jacqui Alexander and Cameron Murray - Strategies for implementing alternative land tenure and use models in Australia to address the housing crisis

Kirsten Day, Andrew Martel, Jenna Cohen and Dalton Bruyns - Empower by Design: Enabling Innovative Inclusion of People with Disability in Design

Therese Keogh - The Spoil Grounds: Waste architectures in infrastructures of extraction

For more information about the grants, visit the website.