JOIN A CHALLENGE
Show the world your ideas for new homes
MOBIE challenges are a launch pad for your creativity. This is where you can share your ideas for homes that represent the way you want to live, now and in the future.
Why should I join a MOBIE challenge?
You are vital to the future of housing! We want you to play a major role in shaping our future built environment. With support from industry, professional bodies and government, our competitions attract entries across the entire educational spectrum from primary schools to final year degree students. It's your time to shine!
Current Challenges
Attention young Washingtonians! Join the Sunderland City Council and MOBIE New Town home design challenge and be part of shaping the future of Washington's built environment
MOBIE and Sunderland City Council have partnered to launch the Washington 60 Young Persons’ Home Design Challenge. The competition kicks off a year of celebrations being planned to help Washington New Town mark its 60th birthday in July 2024. Designated a New Town on 24 July 1964, Washington was hailed at the time for its innovative and forward-thinking residential designs for homes, as well as the establishment of long lasting communities. We are inviting young people from schools across Washington to come up with their own vision of an innovative residential community for the next 60 years – to design a 21st century super sustainable 'courtyard' style housing scheme, with houses for all ages designed around a pedestrianised courtyard square - in line with the essential features of the original 1960s plan.
We are offering free workshops for schools and colleges alongside the challenge. For more detials please e-mail home@mobie.org.uk.
The winners were announced and presented with prizes at Washington's 60th anniversary celebrations on 19th July 2024.
ENTRY:
Submission date for your entries is Wednesday 19th June 2024.
PARTNERS:
Sunderland City Council and Washington Area Committee.
OPEN TO:
5-18 years - there are four entry groups, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Special Needs Schools, and Sixth Form/Further Education colleges.
Attention young Brummies! Join the Lovell and MOBIE Think Circular home design challenge and be part of shaping the future of Birmingham's built environment
MOBIE and Lovell have partnered to launch the Think Circular Home Design Challenge. The challenge, run in partnership with the housebuilder Lovell, is asking young people aged 11-18 to ‘Think Circular’ and design a sustainable future home and community for the city, that reduces energy use and recycles and reuses materials wherever possible. Considering Birmingham’s need for 65,000 new homes by 2031, we want to ensure that the city’s future housing stock meets the needs of its future occupiers and that young people growing up in the city can really benefit from this major investment in housing.
The challenge is open to schools and colleges across Birmingham. It engages young people in thinking about the type of homes that the city needs for the future and how they can be designed and built more sustainably. We are offering free workshops alongside the challenge. For more details download the workshop flyer below or e-mail home@mobie.org.uk.
We hope the challenge will help attract the city’s brightest young talent into the housing and construction sectors in the future. The winners will be announced in July 2024.
ENTRY:
Submission date for your entries is Sunday 30th June 2024.
PARTNERS:
Lovell, Birmingham City Council.
OPEN TO:
11-15 years and 16-18 years.
Attention young people of Suffolk! Join the Edmundham Developments, Lovell and MOBIE Think Circular home design challenge and be part of shaping the future of the County's built environment
Lovell and Suffolk County Council have joined forces to create Edmundham Developments that will build high quality, sustainable homes in the County. MOBIE, Lovell and Suffolk County Council have also partnered to launch the Think Circular Home Design Challenge for young people in the county.
The challenge is asking 5-18 year olds to ‘Think Circular’ and design green homes and green spaces for a site in Newmarket. We want you to design homes of the future, focused on saving energy, resources, and the planet as a whole. Designs should follow the three basic principles of the circular economy: to eliminate waste and pollution, incorporate reused and recycled materials, and regenerate nature.
The challenge is open to primary, secondary school and college students, who will compete in three age categories: ages 5 – 11 (primary), 11 – 15 (secondary), and 16-18 (further education). Students can participate individually or as part of a group, offering a platform for collaboration and teamwork. The winners of the challenge will be announced at a presentation event in the Spring.
There is a prize for the winning team and their school or college from each category. We are offering free workshops alongside the challenge. For more details please e-mail home@mobie.org.uk.
Submission date for your entries is Friday 24th May 2024. For the design brief use the button below. For further information please e-mail home@mobie.org.uk.
PARTNERS: Edmundham Developments, Lovell, Suffolk County Council
OPEN TO:
5-11 years, 11-15 years and 16-18 years.
Attention young Londoners! Join the challenge and be part of shaping the future of London's built environment
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, MOBIE and C40 Cities have partnered with Minecraft to launch the 2024 Design Future London Schools' Challenge. Young Londoners are invited to design a solution for a built environment opportunity in their local area, using the resources provided including Minecraft Education. Through the challenge, you will find out about the different career opportunities available in the built environment sector, experience new things and learn different skills in a creative and collaborative way. We want you to Be Inspired, Be Creative and Have Fun learning about how our capital city can be shaped for the better in the future.
ENTRY:
Submission date for your entries is Wednesday 31st January 2024.
PARTNERS:
Mayor of London, Minecraft Education, C40 Cities, Esri, Local Village Network.
OPEN TO:
5-11 years, 11-15 years, 16-18 years and 19-24+ years (including mature students in Higher Education)
Take part in a radical challenge to fix our homes, buildings and streets to reduce their climate impact
This challenge is all about saving home energy, saving precious resources and saving our planet. We are asking you to explore what it takes to make our homes more energy and resource efficient, to reduce the costs of heating and lighting, to emit little or no carbon emissions, to help protect ourselves against climate change and to create affordable, functional, comfortable places in which to live.
ENTRY:
Submission date for entries closed Friday 28th April 2023.
PARTNERS:
Grimshaw Architects and Mace.
OPEN TO:
12-14 years, 15-18 years and 19 plus years (including graduates and young professionals)
Attention young Londoners! Join the challenge and be part of shaping the future of London's built environment
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and MOBIE have partnered with Minecraft to launch the 2023 Design Future London Schools Challenge. Young Londoners are invited to participate in the challenge and use their creative design skills to make sustainable changes to Croydon town centre. The challenge takes place in the new London Minecraft World, and free licenses for Minecraft Education are available to schools, colleges, universities, faith groups, and youth clubs across London.
ENTRY:
Submission date for entries closed Tuesday 25 April 2022.
PARTNERS:
Mayor of London, Minecraft, C40 Cities, Croydon, Mayor's Fund for London.
OPEN TO:
11-15 years, 16-18 years and 19-24+ years (including mature students)
An Environmentally Friendly Demonstration Home and Education Centre
Capability Scotland with MOBIE are inviting young people across Scotland to work with people with disabilities and explore ideas and designs to create a masterplan for this innovative ‘inclusive community’ to be built on an exciting location on the outskirts of Perth, at Bertha Park.
Submission date for entries closed Friday 26th May 2023.
Capability Scotland.
This design challenge is open to young people in Scotland, age categories: 9-11 years, 11-15 years, 16-18 years and 19-24 years plus years.
An Environmentally Friendly Demonstration Home and Education Centre
Your challenge is to design a sustainable and energy efficient family home that can be used as a showcase and education space for renewable energy, low carbon technologies and new construction methods.
Submission date for your entries is: 8th June 2022.
Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), the City of Glasgow College and Scottish Water.
This design challenge is open to young people in Scotland, age categories: 11-15, 16-18 and 19 plus years
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Design Challenge to Inspire Young Londoners
Are your students interested in designing a beautiful, affordable and sustainable community for future living for Londoners?
The Mayor of London is partnering with MOBIE to launch a design challenge for young Londoners this Autumn.
The design challenge will bring the national curriculum to life and inspire a new generation of Londoners to learn about the built environment and the varied and exciting career opportunities that exist in the sector.
If you are interested in the challenge and want to receive more details, please register your interest.
Mayor of London, Royal Docks
This design challenge is open to young people in London, age categories: 11-15, 16-18 and 19-24
The Gravity Young Persons’ Design Challenge
The Gravity project will establish a smart campus that delivers a new era of possibility for social interaction, economic growth and sustainable environments. We are asking you to look ahead and contribute your ideas on the future of Gravity. We want you to design a place and a home that are environmentally ‘super-green’, creatively employing sustainable building materials and methods, energy and smart technology, and with an emphasis on health and well-being of people, the community, and our planet.
Closed
Gravity and Bounce Forward
This design challenge is open to schools and colleges located near to the Gravity site, in Sedgemoor District, near Bridgwater Somerset, categories: 12-15 and 16-18
MOBIE and Wates Group Primary School Home Design Competition
The MOBIE and Wates Group Primary School Home Design Competition asks you to design your home of the future. You can create your design in any way you like using whatever materials you can lay your hands on – you could draw, use computer software, use games such as Minecraft, Fortnite or Sims, make a model, use Lego, collage, even produce a short video using Tik Tok or any other social media platforms. If you don’t like any of these options, then you could write an article, story or a poem about your future house.
Closed
The Wates Group
7-11 year olds
Riverside Sunderland – University Design Challenge
Riverside Sunderland is redefining the city. This team challenge wants you to design one home in detail along with an indicative masterplan to transform a spectacular site into a unique, carbon neutral urban quarter – an extraordinary place to live, work and play.
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Sunderland City Council, MOBIE, TRADA’s University Engagement Programme, Confederation of Timber Industries
Built Environment students at UK universities and 2020 graduates
Scotland’s Student Challenge
We are inviting the young people of Scotland to work together to imagine ingenious ways of solving a unique and exciting challenge. The Efficient House is a prototype home that’s on display at the BRE’s Innovation Park in Ravenscraig. There is a daring plan underway to move this house from its existing location to a totally new one. This task will involve a lot of challenges along the way, and we need your creativity to help make it happen!
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City of Glasgow College and the Energy Skills Partnership (ESP)
School and College Students in Scotalnd 11-19+
Made in Sunderland: A Future Living Design Challenge
This challenge invites the Young People of Sunderland to collaborate with their households, families, relations and friends to design homes that could be built on the city's riverside.
Closed
Sunderland City Council
11-24 years old
House iO Design Competition for Students to Tackle Homelessness in Bristol
Teams of architectural students from UWE were challenged to design a prefabricated housing scheme using a modular building system developed by Totally Modular, the competition sponsor. The teams had the choice of locating their development in three sites that have been allocated for housing in Bristol, and of four different end users who are experiencing some form of homelessness.
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Value Shift, Infill Works, Bristol Housing Festival and Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of West England (UWE) Bristol.
Students at University of West England (UWE) Bristol
Home of 2030 Young Persons’ Design Challenge
Home of 2030 invited young people across the country to let their imaginations run free by designing an innovative and inspirational green home that meets the changing needs of future generations, including promoting wellbeing, quality of life and healthy ageing.
Closed
RIBA, BRE & The Design Council
11-24 year olds
MOBIE + CIH 2019 Modular Home Design Challenge
This design challenge with the Construction Innovation Hub (CIH) asked you to think about the 21st Century home. How do people actually live in their homes? What things like technology, affordability, size, space, family growth, comfort, individuality, work, entertainment, aesthetics should we consider when designing new family homes?
Closed
Construction Innovation Hub
11-24 years old
COYO + MOBIE Design Challenge
MOBIE teamed up with Design Engineer Construct! and Carbon Dynamic for the COYO CHALLENGE in 2018. Students 11-18 were asked to come up with inventive designs for modular student accommodation for those looking to study on our Advanced Home Construction courses. We saw homes that provided modern, efficient independent living for each student. Amazing creativity from the secondary school, Sixth form and FE college students who entered.
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Design Engineer Construct! and Carbon Dynamic
11-18 years old
MOBIE + MTC Design Challenge
MOBIE and MTC ran an challenge for secondary school and FE students to design offsite manufactured key worker homes. Fifteen teams participated from schools and colleges across the country including Middlesbrough, Sheffield, Nottingham and Essex. We were delighted with how young minds took to the challenge of home design and manufacturing, with some terrific work on show. Teams presented their final designs at the MTC facility in Coventry on the 22nd of March 2018 with George Clarke on hand for judging duties. It was a day to remember!
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MTC Manufacturing Technology Centre
11-18 years old