The Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award (YEATCA) is open to artists under 30 who were born in one of the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
Design Doha Biennale returns for its second edition from April 16 – June 30, 2026, expanding its presence across Doha and reinforcing the city’s position as a global hub for design, creativity, and cultural exchange.
As we embark on this next chapter, Design Doha invites curators to submit exhibition proposals that spotlight the region’s rich cultural heritage and pioneering design talent. Selected exhibitions will be presented across various venues in Doha, contributing to a dynamic and inclusive dialogue on contemporary design in the region and beyond.
In Decentered City: Multispecies Design, a “decentered approach” implies redistributing agency in spatial production, challenging conventional urbanization models and envisioning new ways of inhabiting the world, acknowledging the ecological crisis and fostering interspecies urban environments.
Periodically, browngrotta arts takes a look at what's happening in the fiber medium. For Field Notes: an art invitational, Spring 2025, we are checking in with artists whose work we represent, to see what's on their minds, on their looms and in their studios. We have also reached out to a few other artists who have caught our attention and asked them to submit a possible work for Field Notes. And, we'll be including rarely seen works by art textile pioneers, including Kay Sekimachi and Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, who are receiving renewed, and well-deserved, attention. Mark your calendars – May 3 - May 11 — to see Field Notes, our state-of-play survey of fiber art.
Design District is the leading annual trade event for interior design in the Netherlands. From May 21st to 23rd, the iconic Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam is the place where professionals from the interior design industry gather to discover the latest developments in the sector, make connections, and get inspired. For 3 days, the exhibition floor is filled with presentations from the 200 most beautiful in- and outdoor brands. Design District also features exhibitions by design academies and young designers, captivating talks and provides plenty of space to catch up with colleagues. So don't miss out: Get inspirered at a meeting place for future friendships and business opportunities. #DesignDistrictNL
NYCxDESIGN brings together design professionals and enthusiasts for a dynamic, citywide celebration spanning all five boroughs. From exhibitions and design talks to cocktail parties and open studios, the Festival hosts hundreds of events, drawing thousands of attendees from around the world. The highly anticipated 2025 edition will explore "Design is for Everyone," highlighting the power of design to shape humanity, culture, and inclusion.
Archstorming launches an international competition to design resilient schools after natural disasters in Nepal.
Film and architecture festival announces an Open Call for films related to the topics of architecture, urbanism and design. It could be short films, mid-length or feature films. Selected works will be screened at the 14th edition of Film and architecture festival which will be held from October 1 to 6. Please submit your movies using this form: https://forms.gle/MPMJaiam4Y5YgVGZA
LAGI 2025 FIJI Climate Resilience for Island Communities
The subject of the competition is the design of an architectural solution for a football stadium for FC Baník Ostrava, a.s., which will meet UEFA criteria for the highest category of stadium enabling the organisation of international matches in all categories of football. The new stadium, with significant, larger-than-regional importance, aims to bring the game closer to the fans and create the best possible spectator experience.
The IE and JLL Design Wonder Award—a three-year initiative by JLL Project and Development Services (PDS) and IE School of Architecture and Design—fully funds nine students each year for the Master in Interior Design at IE in Madrid.
Project Hyperion invites visionaries, architects, engineers, and social scientists to collaborate on a groundbreaking challenge: designing the habitat for a generation ship. This concept of long-term interstellar travel relies on a spacecraft capable of sustaining human life for centuries, requiring innovation in architecture, engineering, and societal organization.
Future Plastic Design Award
We are seeking creative and original concepts for furniture elements that blend functionality with contemporary design. These products should be manufactured using injection molding with a single mold, ensuring an optimized production process and reduced unit costs. The products will be sold disassembled to minimize packaging dimensions and should be designed for quick and intuitive assembly, allowing users to easily put them together.
You are invited to propose a single piece of furniture or, if preferred, a collection of furniture elements designed for home use in both indoor and outdoor contexts.
The product categories include:
1) Furniture (chairs, tables, shelves, etc.)
2) Objects/accessories (for desk, kitchen, bathroom, etc.)
Unleash your creativity and present ideas for a collection that embodies innovation, functionality, and exceptional design quality.
Welcome to 'Best House in the World', a new competition to discover and reward residential architectural designs that are in the process of development or tendering, prior to construction. Real projects, with real clients and real plots, designed by architects who want to reach new standards of excellence and quality in the construction of their residential projects.
As Founding Partner of FF&P, Frederick Fisher, FAAR, AIA is a self-described “liberal arts guy.” He is an avid reader, traveler, and arts-lover, and his approach to architecture reflects his innate intellectual curiosity and broad cultural and social perspective. His list of projects includes the renovation of Princeton’s Firestone Library, MoMA/PS1 in New York, The Annenberg Community Beach House, Sunnylands Visitor Center and Gardens, Erburu and Fielding Galleries of the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, and numerous galleries, studios, and homes.
In a famous essay about the relationship between feminism and architecture, Mary McLeod noted how Foucault, in articulating the concept of heterotopia ‘seems to have expressed an unconscious disdain for aspects of everyday life such as the home, the public park and the department store, which were instead provinces in which women found not only oppression, but also a degree of comfort, security, autonomy and even freedom.’ The backdrop for this exhibition is a work by the English architect naturalized Swedish Ralph Erskine, called Shopping, which opened in September 1955 in Luleå, a town on the edge of the Arctic Circle where most of the population of Norrbotten is concentrated. With its hard-to-reach location, this building received little attention from architectural critics, who were only interested in it as something it was not: the first shopping mall in history. In spite of its name, the building is in fact rather like a passage, a shopping mall with no underground parking and no car access, located in the very center of the city. The importance of the building did not escape to Mai Zetterling - the first female director to win an award for directing at the Venice Film Festival after the war with the short film War Game (1962) - who set the decisive sequences of Flickorna (The Girls, 1968), a milestone in the promotion of a culture of equality and gender diversity (from which the title line of the exhibition is taken). By juxtaposing the projection of this film transposition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata with the transfigurations of promotional and documentary images conserved in the archives that in various ways give an account of the commercial gallery's past, the exhibition intends to make explicit the contestation to the stereotyped image of the “Swedish woman” that asserted itself on the international scene, and more specifically in Italian cinema, from the end of the 1950s onwards. In order to gain a physical and bodily awareness of how much Shopping's architecture has been and still continues to be a field of confrontation and redefinition of gender identity, those who visit the exhibition will have the concrete possibility of tracing its complex inner atrium and directly comparing it with figurines, caricatures (macchietta)
and human representations of the time, giving life to the performance of a real ‘animated view’.
Opening: 31.5.2024 at 7 pm
Speakers: Iwan Baan, lars Müller, Nicola Borgmann
Open House Milano returns for its 9th edition on the weekend of May 25 and 26. With 100 sites across Milan opening their doors, the festival will showcase a unique blend of large-scale urban projects and intimate private spaces, reflecting the dynamic changes shaping this historic city. Open House Milano invites residents and visitors of the city to experience a diverse programme of guided tours led by a dedicated network of 200 volunteers.