ISARCH proudly presents the 2025 ISARCH ESG Award, a dedicated platform recognizing outstanding achievements in sustainable design across multiple disciplines. This specialized award celebrates newly launched products and services that place sustainable design principles at their core—innovations created with the wellbeing of both humanity and our planet in mind.
Recognition for Meaningful Impact
The ISARCH ESG Award has established itself as the benchmark for excellence in experience design, honoring creators who connect people with spaces through context, narrative, and meaning. This prestigious recognition spotlights designers and firms that innovate in experience design practice and enrich human interactions for people from diverse backgrounds and abilities.
Winning projects span an impressive range—from accessible museum exhibitions to complex airport wayfinding systems, from thought-provoking social justice monuments to seamlessly interactive branded environments. What unites them all is their commitment to sustainable principles and measurable positive impact.
Three Distinct Disciplines
The 2025 ISARCH ESG Award welcomes submissions across three specialized categories:
ESG Architecture
From carbon-neutral architecture challenges to biodiversity urban landscape innovations, this category encompasses sustainable building practices that transform our built environment. Notable subcategories include sustainable tech buildings, energy-efficient home design, green commercial spaces, climate-resilient structures, net-zero construction, and inclusive home design.
ESG Product
This category celebrates innovations in sustainable product creation—from green product design and sustainable furniture to carbon-neutral vehicles. Other focus areas include eco-friendly robotics, renewable material innovation, cradle-to-cradle design, climate-resilient infrastructure, zero-waste manufacturing, and products that embody fair labor practices and ethical consumer goods.
ESG Fashion
Recognizing the fashion industry’s shift toward sustainability, this category honors achievements in sustainable fashion design, eco-friendly textile innovation, carbon-neutral jewelry, recyclable luxury wear, and waste-free apparel. It also celebrates regenerative leather design, plastic-free accessories, ethical supply chain practices, and transparent production methods.
What Judges Seek
Entries should highlight how new products or services achieve:
- Integration of ESG standards into concept and design
- Delivery of positive environmental or social benefits through innovative design, supported by measurable indicators
- Groundbreaking approaches that disrupt conventional practices in sustainability
The ESG Award evaluation follows ISARCH’s renowned blind judging process, ensuring that all entries are assessed solely on their merits, without bias toward established names or firms.
Who Should Enter
The competition welcomes entries from established design studios, emerging professionals, and student innovators alike. Products and services designed with sustainability at their foundation—whether focused on efficiency, durability, or reusability—are all eligible for consideration. Submissions that demonstrate tangible environmental, social, and governance improvements throughout their value chains are particularly encouraged.
Join the growing community of designers who are redefining industries through sustainable innovation and receive the recognition your groundbreaking work deserves.