Future Architecture Platform, founded in 2015, 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.
27 institutions from 23 countries create an individual event program consisting of exhibitions, conferences, lectures, workshops, etc. with young creatives from various disciplines, which have not yet been widely perceived. The focus is on dealing with visions for the future of architecture in Europe. The results are documented and published in books and on the web.
Future Architecture 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. 27 organisers from 22 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.
Who can participate?
Interested architects, artists and researchers participate in an open call. The selection is made by the member organizations and a public webvoting.
2016
Nearly 300 projects have been submitted for 2016, and a third of international applicants have been invited to 14 European countries to give lectures, participate in exhibitions or hold workshops. Under the title "Form Follows", the House of Architecture in Graz asked nine young architectural teams and individuals to comment on an exhibition curated by ISSS research & architecture on the topics "affordable living", "lifestyles in transition" and "shared spaces". Accompanied by several discourse events, an intensive discourse and a sustainable networking emerged between the international and national exhibition participants as well as the audience.
2017
For 2017, 337 ideas from 594 authors from 56 countries were generated by the Call for Projects. In February 2017, the 25 most interesting projects were presented at the so-called Matchmaking Conference at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana. As part of the activities of the Future Architecture Platform in the summer of 2017, the Haus der Architektur presented an exhibition curated by Ana Jeinic, as well as a related symposium.
2018
In 2018, 212 ideas from 492 creatives from 43 countries were submitted to the Open Call of the Future Architecture Platform. In 2018, the House of Architecture hosted the Future Architecture Summer School in Graz: Ten international and Austrian aspiring architects who participated in the call of the Future Architecture Platform were selected as tutors and invited to Graz for a workshop lasting two weeks to guide young people. The result of the Summer School was then shown in an exhibition and offered the opportunity to make the developed ideas and concepts accessible to a wider audience.
2019
The Future Architecture Call for Ideas 2019 brought 357 applications from 704 creatives from 60 countries! In 2019, an exhibition opened at the Haus der Architektur in September, where young architects explore Superstudio's work around their socio-critical model "The Continuous Monument: An Architectural Model for Total Urbanization" (1969). The newly designed works were exposed together with originals by Superstudio from the archive of the Neue Galerie.
2020
The Call for Ideas of the Future Architecture Platform for 2020 brought 433 submissions from 802 authors from 53 countries. Five "emerging creatives" were selected to present their projects as part of the "CountryLife – Recent Strategies for tomorrows rural living" exhibition at Haus der Architektur. A total of ten projects from six countries will be shown, which present different examples of the reactivation of rural areas in order to stimulate thinking, thinking and participating and to show new perspectives for life in the country.
Coordinating entity:
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI)
Members:
National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (IT), Copenhagen Architecture Festival (DK), Lisbon Architecture Triennale (PT), dpr-barcelona (ES), CANactions, Kiev (UA), Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona (ES), Društvo arhitekata Istre - Società architetti dell'Istria DAI-SAI (HR), Museum of Architecture in Wrocław (PL), Belgrade International Architecture Week (SR), House of Architecture, Graz (AT), Tirana Architecture Week (AL), Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn (EE), Forecast, Berlin (DE), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT), Design Biotop, Ljubljana (SI), VI PER Gallery, Prague (CZ), Oslo Architecture Triennale (NO), Kosovo Architecture Festival (RKS), Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel (CH), Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK), Strelka, Moscow (RU), Tbilisi Architecture Biennial (GE), Architectuul (EE), Organisation in Design (NL), theatrum mundi, Paris (FR), Architektūros fondas, Vilnius (LT), BETA Timișoara Architecture Biennial, Timișoara (RO), Days of Architecture, Sarajevo (BIH)
Further information: www.futurearchitectureplatform.org
Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union
