Urban Space

Young creatives from Germany and Moldova are invited to apply for the audio storytelling lab ‘Common Futures’. The programme takes place both online and in-person from May - September 2023. Online, participants will receive mentoring and conduct group project work. During two offline exchanges in Berlin and Chișinău, participants will rethink existing structures and places, speculate about the futures of urban spaces and co-create site-specific audio projects.

Cities Ahead is launching an open call for placemaking projects for the creative (temporary) transformation of public space in Augsburg, in the overarching context of sustainable cultural urban development. Selected projects are to be implemented in the second half of 2023 (by November at the latest).

Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture is calling for artists to reimagine several municipal spaces in prominent locations in the city. Works will be created/installed on-site between 1 May and 30 September 2023.

The DIALOG CITY Art for Public Residency Programme invites professional artists to develop ideas for urban interventions dealing with local or global topics that are of great significance for urban society and that are based on a participatory approach. This open call is for a residency in Turin and Mondoví running from 20 June - 24 July 2023. Artists of all disciplines and nationalities can apply, but they must reside in the European Union or in one of the accession countries.

The Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, Korea is seeking participants for its 2023 ACC Residency, which will take place over approximately six months from May – October 2023, with a showcase in November 2023. The reorganised 2023 programme is being carried out in conjunction with the ACC Sound Art Lab, which in 2023 is launching the project ‘Futures of Listening’ to research the sounds of Asia and Asian cities.

As part of the S+T+ARTS programme, the project ReSilence in collaboration with artists is developing technologies to shape in novel ways our urban environments and soundscapes, re-positioning the role of silence and that of sound. To design the soundscape of future cities, ReSilence supports the development of art-driven technologies in the spirit of S+T+ARTS through the collaboration of artists, architects, urban designers, scientists, engineers and researchers.

Cities Ahead is launching an open call for international creatives to propose participatory actions for the transformation of public space in Logroño, integrating aspects of urban innovation and sustainable/ecological development. The selected proposals will be carried out in Logroño during Concéntrico 09 – International Architecture and Design Festival, which will take place from 27 April - 2 May 2023.

The international design lab ‘reimagine your city’ is a two-year (2022-2023) educational programme for 100 multidisciplinary professionals residing in Georgia, Poland, Ukraine and Germany. It aims at youth empowerment and participation in the socio-cultural transformation of neighbourhoods via interactive digital and creative practices. The hybrid programme begins on 2 November 2022 with a 5-week research module, design masterclasses, an offline winter school in Berlin, extensive group work, and grants for the implementation of small-scale projects, ending with a summer school in Georgia in the summer of 2023.

This is an open call for application to the worksession Techno-Cul-de-Sac. The organisers invite artists, city dwellers, activists, electronic scavengers, conflicted urbanists and reluctant designers to spend a week together sharing practices related to the city’s zones of attention, contact, conflict.

This year, the Art Commission of the City of Düsseldorf is launching a new scheme that focuses on promoting contemporary art in public spaces. With stadt.raum.experimente, local as well as internationally active artists are called upon to develop experimental and temporary concepts for the urban space of Düsseldorf. Whether installation, performance or participation, stadt.raum.experimente is open to unusual forms and experimental ideas.

Yet, It Moves! will unfold through a series of decentralised art installations shown at different locations in Copenhagen from May to October 2023. The organisers Copenhagen Contemporary are searching for artists, architects, designers, curators, landscape architects or others who are in any way professionally engaged in art or architecture in the public space  to send proposals for contributions.