FDSA Collaboration with TAR UMT Makes a Featured Appearance

The MoU sets the foundation for a strategic partnership between both entities, working together to develop industry-ready graduates for the architecture and design industry through the FDSA platform.

It also bolsters TAR UMT’s institutional reputation, ensuring ongoing support for students from the university’s Bachelor of Interior Architecture (Hons) through national-level exposure, industry-recognised competition experience, and access to mentorship, internships and real-world design learning.

For ACG Media, the occasion solidifies FDSA as an industry benchmark and an instrumental initiative to promote design excellence among aspiring designers.

Since its inception in 2025, it continues to work directly with a handful of distinguished tertiary institutions across Malaysia to identify the best design projects by the most talented design students. This eliminates the ambiguity of participants and cements the relationship between the institution and its award candidate students.

“(The strategic partnership) is a good opportunity for students to not only get their design work exposed and published but also to be seen by renowned industry players via networking,” said Ar. Dr. Chang Choong Yew, Associate Dean of the School of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment at TAR UMT following the MoU signing.

“We also hope that our school can obtain industry linkage in the future, meaning that we hope to have more industry projects which will be integrated with the students’ design studio works. We believe that the students will enjoy partaking in the design process more, knowing that it is a real-world project and not just an academic one,” he added.