Future Architecture Platform

S AM Swiss Architecture Museum is proud to announce its participation to Future Architecture Platform, the first pan-European platform of architecture museums, festivals and producers, bringing the ideas on the future of cities and architecture closer to wider audiences.

Architecture is prone to envisioning compelling futures. Opening up a broad discussion, 14 Europeanorganisations have joined forces to create a platform that is looking for visions from individuals and collectives to rethink the future of architecture in Europe. The Future Architecture platform is launching an open call for ideas.

SECOND CALL FOR IDEAS

After a successful first cycle of activities in the initial year, Future Architecture platform launches a new call for ideas for all who wish to participate in the Future Architecture program cycle throughout Europe in 2017. The platform invites emerging creatives to apply with the ideas, visions and projects they consider important for the future of architecture. Applicants should articulate the relevance of their application to the future of architecture, whether as an architectural statement, a social practice, a business model, as new construction technique, as production of living space, or other subject, which the applicants consider to be inevitable or highly relevant to the debates on the future of architecture in Europe. All applications will be published on the website of the Future Architecture platform. By entering, each applicant is automatically added to the list of artists and professionals that may be invited to participate at exhibitions, conferences, lecture series, workshops and other events organized by the members of the platform.

HOW IT WORKS

The call for ideas will close on January 9, 2017. By applying to the call for ideas the applicants register to participate in a European programme of events organised by Future Architecture members. Until January 16, 2017, platform members and the general public will select applicants from various creative disciplines on the basis of submitted ideas. The selected applicants will be invited to present their vision at the Future Architecture Matchmaking conference on February 16–18, 2017 at MAO (Museum of Architecture and Design) in Ljubljana. After the matchmaking conference Future Architecture members will select the participants that they will include in their events, which will take place between from 1 March to 31 October, 2017 across Europe.

Future Architecture’s 14 members and 4 associate members offer and invite applicants to participate at 4 Exhibitions, 5 Conferences, 3 Lecture Series, 6 Workshops and a Field Trip. All of these activities will be supported by a Publishing Platform and Local Mobile Support Service. The platform will present the results of the projects created under the umbrella of Future Architecture at the final festival in Ljubljana, from 26 September to 1 October, 2017, where members, participants and audiences will evaluate the work done and the results achieved, as well as determine the future mode of collaboration within the platform.

WHO CAN APPLY?

- you can document professional achievements (work, commissions, exhibitions, publications, reviews, grants, awards)
- your work has not been widely recognised or established by critics, curators or producers (we are looking for emerging, upcoming talents that have not yet enjoyed wider recognition)
- your last work is not older than two years

 

Apply to participate

 

ABOUT

Future Architecture is the first pan-European platform of architecture museums, festivals and producers, bringing ideas on the future of cities and architecture closer to the wider public.

Our goals:

  • Think Future. We highlight the emerging generation of talents in various disciplines and explore and share their ideas about the future of cities and architecture.

  • Exchange. 18 organisers from 15 countries are creating a pan-European programme, tour emerging creators and present their ideas at exhibitions, conferences, lectures and workshops, in books and on the web.

  • Raise awareness. The platform makes complex issues of architecture comprehensible to everyone, and promotes a more sustainable living environment.

  • Build commitment. A Future Architecture European Quality label recognizes organisers who work with aspiring emerging talents and show their commitment to the platform objectives.

The Future Architecture platform introduces and celebrates innovation, experimentation and the ideas of a generation that will design the architecture and build Europe’s cities in the years to come. It promotes European innovation, architecture, culture, knowledge and social capital through a single common platform.

MEMBERS

By applying to the open call you could be selected to participate in the pan-European programme of exhibitions, conferences and workshops created by the members of the platform. The members are museums, festivals, publishers and architectural producers that play a role in the field of architecture in their local environment, serve as one of the main sources of architecture-related information, and have the skills to create outstanding, and widely-attended events.

Platform coordinator:
Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana

Platform members:

Oris House of Architecture, Zagreb(HR) 
Museum of Architecture in Wrocław (PL)
Belgrade International Architecture Week (SR)
National Museum ofXXI Century Arts, Rome (IT)
House of Architecture, Graz (AT)
Copenhagen Architecture Festival (DK)
TiranaArchitecture Week (AL)
One Architecture Week (BG)
Design Biotop, Ljubljana (SI)
Lisbon Architecture Triennale (PT)
dpr-barcelona (ES)
CANactions, Kiev(UA)
Bureau N (DE)
associate members: 
Prishtina Architecture Week (RKS)
Forecast, Berlin (DE)
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT)

Want to become a member? Write to: assistant@mao.si