Overview
Purpose/Theme
In alignment with 2025 AIANY President Benjamin Gilmartin, AIA theme “See You IRL: Designing for Public Life,” this 15th edition of Speed Presentations calls for interior projects that make significant contributions to public through design, program, service, and/or other strategies. Projects may be of any type or scale, public or private. Examples include, but are not limited to, social venues, gathering spaces, building amenity spaces, retail stores, restaurants/cafes, and community rooms/centers.
Eligibility
Entries must be submitted by an AIA member who is affiliated with a firm based in New York City. Projects may be located outside of New York, and multiple projects may be submitted. All submitted projects must either be in the planning stages, under construction, or unbuilt.
No fee is required for entry.
Submission Requirements
A complete entry asks applicants to provide the following items:
1. Project Description: Provide context for the submitted project(s). How does it engage the theme of “See You IRL: Designing for Public Life”
2. Presentation: In no more than ten (10) 11×17 pages, provide a PDF consisting of diagrams, drawings, and/or photographs of the submitted project(s). The PDF submission will be used for the final, in-person presentation, so please be sure that it is arranged and formatted for presentation use.