Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Fellowships in the Built Environment & Design
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The 1851 Royal Commission has two Fellowships open for applications:
- Fellowship in Design
- Fellowship in the Built Environment
Both are two-year fellowships funded at £50,000 per year. Candidates should be UK based aiming to carry out research over a 2 year period culminating in a milestone output of significance.
Fellowship in the Built Environment brief Biome-positive urbanism: Designing the caring city The Fellowship requires the creation of a tangible blueprint for caring, biome-positive urbanism, translating principles into spatial form. We seek to move these strategies from the "start-up space" into the mainstream of the built environment.
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The purpose of the Fellowship is to demonstrate how cities can act as caring systems - supporting human biomes, ecological health, social connection and everyday wellbeing - to produce practical design tools or well-founded strategic thinking which will allow real places to embed “care” as an organising principle.
Fellowship in Design brief Deep design & human creativity in an age of AI and uncertainty To explore how designers can safeguard, evolve, and express uniquely human creativity, judgment, and embodied making in an era of AI acceleration.
The fellowship should show how human craft, cognition, intuition and relational intelligence can be integrated with (or intentionally set apart from) AI systems to improve design outcomes.
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How to Apply We welcome applications from those at a more advanced stage in their careers: post-graduates, researchers, practitioners or professionals on a career break. Deadline for applications: 15 September 2026
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