Nonprofit Partners for Sacred Places has announced the winners of the 2026 Faith & Form International Awards for Religious Architecture & Art.

Founded in 1978, the program aims to honor excellence and innovation in architecture, design, and art for religious places. This year, 12 winners were chosen out of 75 entries from nine countries. The recognized projects include the creation, restoration, and re-use of religious buildings, landscapes, and artworks.

“This year’s entries represented a cross-section of place and spiritual connection and were significant for the remarkable solutions they offered their congregations,” said Joshua Zinder, AIA, chair of the award’s five-person jury. “From the smallest entryway to the reinvention of city-scaled interventions, the projects address critical issues of our time through adaptive reuse, historic restoration and thoughtful insertions that create new and transcendent spaces.”

Look below to see the winning projects.

Liturgical/Interior Design Award: Immaculate Conception Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
Voith & Mactavish Architects
Ambler, Pennsylvania

As cities expand, vertical and horizontal spaces are continually redefined, adapting to the pressing demands of urban living. Yet, beneath the expanse of our infrastructure lies a matrix of underutilized spaces, often overshadowed by their towering counterparts - the bridges that stitch our cities together. These underbridge spaces, ranging from small niches to vast expanses, remain dormant, echoing the hum of the traffic above, waiting for visionaries to tap into their latent potential.

In our relentless pursuit to address urban housing needs, Buildner is proud to unveil its 20th competition in the Affordable Housing Series, marking another milestone in the exploration of innovative living solutions. This edition also represents the second edition of Underbridge, our housing challenge focused on the overlooked and underexplored spaces beneath bridges around the world. Through this challenge, architects and visionaries are invited to reimagine these environments and unlock their potential — transforming them into dynamic, thriving communities that resonate with the city’s heartbeat.

Beneath city bridges worldwide lies untapped potential, vast spaces brimming with opportunity. Underbridge invites visionaries to transform these areas into thriving communities. Buildner is searching for designs that can cater to a wide array of residents, ensuring a perfect blend of scalability, affordability and eco-consciousness. It is an invitation to revolutionize these overlooked spaces with a fresh, practical perspective.

Participants have the liberty to pinpoint any underbridge site across the globe for their visionary designs. Essential considerations include the site’s accessibility, available amenities, and how the proposed solution harmonizes with the existing community. The designs should showcase adaptability, ensuring they cater to various needs while remaining both cost-effective and sustainable.

With this challenge, the boundaries are set by your own creativity. Buildner urges entrants to think big, think different, and present housing solutions that challenge the norm. The underbridge spaces await your transformative touch. Let your imaginations run wild, and let’s craft a vision where these spaces become the heartbeat of urban communities.

PRIZES

3 winning proposals, special award recipient and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Buildner will award a total of 8,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:

1st Prize - 4,000 €
2nd Prize - 2,000 €
3rd Prize - 1,000 €
+ 6 honourable mentions

Buildner Student Award - 1,000 €

The Prix Versailles has unveiled its list of the world’s most beautiful emporiums for 2026. The list of seven emporiums “draw from the foundations of their brand’s history and culture, and from the emotions and expertise that, in dialogue with the environment all around them, have turned these places into hot spots for creation and inspiration,” according to Prix Versailles Secretary General Jérôme Gouadain.

In December, three projects from the list will be given additional titles of a World Title – Prix Versailles, Interior, or Exterior. The unveiling of the emporium shortlist comes shortly after the organization chose its shortlist for restaurants, hotels, airports, and museums. 

Below, we have published the seven projects comprising the World's Most Beautiful Emporium list 2026. You can compare the projects with those of previous years by following our ongoing coverage of the series here.

House of Dior in Beijing, China by Christian de Portzamparc

Buildner’s Unbuilt Award 2026, celebrating its third edition, honors the boundless creativity and visionary spirit of architecture. The competition shines a spotlight on the significance of unrealized designs, celebrating bold ideas and imaginative visions that, even without being built, capture the essence of innovation and exploration. It offers a global stage for architects and designers to showcase their most daring concepts, challenge conventional thinking, and inspire the future of the built environment.

Participants are invited to submit their work, offering unrestricted freedom to highlight their creativity and vision. Whether it's designs still on paper, detailed plans awaiting realization, or conceptual ideas seeking acknowledgment, all forms of unbuilt projects are welcome.

Submissions are categorized as small, medium, or large, so every project gets the recognition it deserves. Buildner aims to showcase the incredible potential of these unbuilt designs, applauding the imagination and commitment of architects and designers striving for innovation and excellence.

The Buildner Unbuilt Award 2026 offers life-changing prizes, including a €100,000 prize fund shared across three categories, a dedicated chapter in the annual Unbuilt Book, and the prestigious Continuum Trophy, designed by renowned designer Germans Ermičs. Participants have the opportunity to showcase their creativity on a global stage and gain recognition for visionary ideas that shape the future of architecture. 

PRIZE FUND

Buildner will recognize one winner in each of the three scale-based categories and award five honorable mentions in each category as well. A student winner will also be chosen for each category. Additionally, there will be a special award for the best presentation. All winners and honorable mentions will be featured in a printed book to showcase their innovative work.

100,000 € + Your Chapter in The Book 

For detailed information about scale-based categories, the awarding of five honorable mentions in each category, and special award, please refer to the homepage. 

WoodWorks has unveiled the winners of its 2026 Wood in Architecture award, celebrating “excellence and innovation in mass timber, heavy timber, light-frame, and hybrid building design.” This year, eight buildings were selected for “using wood in innovative ways that positively impact the environment, occupants, and communities throughout the U.S.” 

“The winning projects illustrate not only what is possible today, but where the industry is headed,” WoodWorks President and CEO Jennifer Cover said about the selection. “From urban campuses to rural communities, and from small-scale buildings to flagship headquarters, they reflect a broad and evolving landscape for mass timber and light-frame wood construction. High-performance envelopes, advanced acoustic and vibration solutions, and hybrid structural systems are enabling wood to meet rigorous program requirements while delivering warm, human-centered spaces.”

The eight winning schemes are as follows:

Amy Gutmann Hall, Data Science & AI Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Lake Flato Architects and KSS Architects

The winners of BRICK AWARD 26 have been revealed, celebrating “brick and ceramic building products as timeless materials for innovative and forward-looking architecture.” Presented every two years since 2004 by Wienerberger AG, the 2026 edition honored six projects chosen from a shortlist of 50 projects. 

Projects were chosen according to their “skilful and innovative” use of brick, including aesthetics, shape, and configuration of the project. In addition, sustainability, climate resilience, energy efficiency, and affordable living received special attention from the jury. 

The winning entries are as follows:

Đạo Mẫu Temple and Museum in Soc Son, Vietnam by ARB Architects

Project excerpt: “This year’s Grand Prize was awarded to Đạo Mẫu Temple and Museum in Soc Son, Vietnam, winner of the Sharing public spaces category. The design by ARB Architects for folk artist Xuân Hinh draws inspiration from deep-rooted traditions, melding a spiritual aesthetic with contemporary life to create a sense of serenity across the 5,000 sqm site. The carbon-negative project upcycled some six million clay tiles sourced from more than 500 local homes, creating a unique and sacred connection with the people of the region.”

The Graham Foundation has announced its recipients of grants for 2026. Over $500,000 was awarded to 54 projects “exploring architecture through exhibitions, films, publications, and research.”

In total, 86 individuals received funding from more than 600 submissions. Among the recipients are emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, scholars, and writers.

In total, more than $46 million has been awarded by the foundation in 70 years, supporting over 5,300 projects. 

The 2026 projects funded are as follows:

The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of its 2026 Regional & Urban Design Award. Five schemes were honored in this year's edition of the award, which are “recognized as the best in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development.”

The awards come days after the AIA also selected the best in contemporary architecture at the 2026 AIA Architecture Awards. Meanwhile, the best new interiors of the year were honored at the AIA Interior Architecture Awards, and the best in residential architecture was honored at the AIA Housing Award. You can compare the projects recognized this year to those of previous years by following our ongoing coverage of the series here.  

In the meantime, the winners of the Regional & Urban Design Award 2026 are as follows: 

Choose a site—used, abandoned, or forgotten—anywhere in the world, and give it a new purpose.

In a world facing urgent environmental and spatial challenges, the most sustainable solutions may come not from new construction, but from reimagining what already exists. Re:Form Edition #3 invites architects, designers, and innovators to embrace the challenge of adaptive reuse, working within spaces under 250 square meters to give them renewed purpose and relevance.

Participants are free to select any existing structure—whether currently in use, abandoned, or neglected—anywhere in the world. From unused storefronts and aging sheds to underutilized garages or portions of larger buildings, each proposal should demonstrate how a limited footprint can be transformed into something innovative and impactful.

This competition celebrates the ingenuity required to balance sustainability, functionality, and thoughtful design within an existing space. How can we rethink these structures to serve new purposes, meet contemporary needs, and positively impact their communities? Re:Form Edition #3 is an invitation to bring fresh perspectives to old spaces and show that careful adaptation can play a powerful role in shaping a more sustainable future.

PRIZES

3 winning proposals, 2 special award recipients and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Buildner will award a total of 10,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:

1st Prize - 5,000 €
2nd Prize - 2,500 €
3rd Prize - 1,000 €
6 honourable mentions

Buildner Student Award - 1,000 €
Buildner Sustainability Award - 500 €

Looking for new, exciting architecture and design competitions to consider? Check out our latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Featured today are four briefs seeking the premier structural steel projects in the United States, student-led projects that engage with contemporary architectural, urban, and environmental challenges, innovative ideas for how tall buildings can more sustainably be integrated in Vancouver, and designs for a memorial that highlights humanity's role in nature's destruction.

For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.

Call for Entries — A' Design Award Standard Deadline: September 30

Your Best Work Deserves the World's Attention. Submit by September 30.

The Standard Deadline for the A' Design Award & Competition closes on September 30. Designers, architects, brands, and innovators from 180 nationalities are invited to nominate their finest products, projects, and services for one of the world's most prestigious and comprehensive design accolades.

Somewhere in your portfolio sits a design that changed how someone lives, works, or feels.

That design has a global audience waiting for it. The A' Design Award & Competition, established in 2008 and organized annually across 196 categories, invites you to nominate your work before the Standard Deadline on September 30. Entries submitted by this date secure current nomination rates and enter the evaluation cycle leading to the results announcement, the winners' exhibition in Italy, and La Notte Premio A', the black-tie Gala Night and Awards Ceremony at Teatro Sociale Como.

Begin with a free, confidential preliminary evaluation. Upload your design and receive a Preliminary Score from 0 to 10 rating your design quality, a Presentation Score from 0 to 100 assessing technical compliance, and expert feedback with specific suggestions for strengthening your entry. This service carries zero cost and zero obligation to proceed. You learn exactly where your work stands before you commit a single euro.

What Recognition Sets in Motion

A grand jury of 312 academics, industry professionals, and journalists evaluates every entry through anonymous blind peer review against pre-established criteria. Recognition earned this way becomes a credential you can defend in any boardroom, pitch, or negotiation.

Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, a documented set of up to 215 winner benefits engineered to convert a single jury decision into sustained global visibility. Three mechanisms illustrate how this works in practice:

Your design travels in 108+ languages. Award-winning works receive translation and placement across 138+ magazines and publications worldwide, supported by press release preparation, newswire distribution, and a media network of 3,868 sites. The competition has generated over 43,000 press mentions and more than 1.1 billion design pageviews to date.

Your achievement becomes a permanent asset. Winners receive a perpetual, worldwide, unlimited license for the Award Winner Logo, a 3D-printed metal trophy designed in Italy, inclusion in the hardcover yearbook as a credited co-author, exhibition in Italy, and an Academic Citation and Digital Research Object Identifier that anchors your design in scholarly record through the Advanced Design Conference proceedings.

Your network expands at the highest level. Laureates join 23,580 award winners across the World Design Rankings, receive invitations to the Gala Night attended by 750 guests including editors, ambassadors, and industry leaders, and gain access to the Ars Futura Cultura Symposium on the shores of Lake Como, where introductions between winners regularly evolve into commissions and collaborations.

Four Pathways, One Deadline

The Multi-Modal Entry Architecture accommodates every strategic position: Pro-Edition for maximum prestige and the complete physical experience, Digital-Edition for a cost-effective and comprehensive digital pathway, Vision-Edition for flexible and customizable participation, and Classic-Edition for minimal upfront commitment. Pro, Digital, and Vision Editions operate under a no further fees policy, so the benefits you earn arrive free of additional contractual obligations.

Here is a quiet truth from nineteen years of organizing this competition: the entries that win are rarely the ones rushed in the final hours. Submitting now gives you time to act on preliminary feedback, refine your presentation, and enter with your strongest possible materials.

September 30 is your date.

Submit your design today at competition.adesignaward.com. Registration is free, the preliminary evaluation is free, and your journey toward international recognition begins with a single upload.

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Sparking innovation in illumination since 2013, L A M P is a small, independent organization dedicated to championing emerging talent and connecting designers to new markets in lighting design. Every submission fee and sponsorship goes directly into running the competition, prize monies and marketing our Finalists. For a fraction of the cost of a trade-show booth, L A M P puts your work in front of audiences, press, and industry players who matter. Being named a finalist is more than a credential; it's a launchpad. 

L A M P 2026 COMPETITION GUIDELINES The competition is open to TWO MAIN CATEGORIES: PROFESSIONAL & STUDENT (our previous category Manufactured has been folded into Professional). There are SIX SUBCATEGORIES: FLOOR, TABLE, PENDANT & SCONCE. Separate designations for each Sub-Category exist for further recognition if the design is also: PORTABLE/RECHARGEABLE, OUTDOOR, ACOUSTIC, SMART/APP CONNECTED, SOLAR, SUSTAINABLE, HANDMADE/CRAFT or SCULPTURAL. Entries are welcomed from all disciplines including, but not limited to: Artists, Industrial Designers and Architects. Read eligibility requirements below and be sure to submit to the correct category. 

TIMELINE, DEADLINES & FEES • NO PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. • Call for Entries opens: July 1, 2026 • Early Bird deadline: August 15, 2026 • Regular deadline: October 1, 2026 • Late deadline: October 15, 2026 • Judging: November 5–25, 2026 • Winners announced: December 10–15, 2026 

Theme for the Series in this cycle is ‘Architecture and Memories’

Did you know that you can carry space with you?

Architecture is often understood as something permanent, fixed to a site and grounded in geography. Yet some of the most endearing spaces we recollect and relive are the ones carried within us as memories. A childhood home, a school corridor, a buzzing street, or a courtyard left behind through migration—these are spaces that continue to travel with us, transcending time and geography.

Intriguingly, memory is not restricted to spaces we have physically experienced. A room from a novel, a house from a film, a city imagined through a story, and many other spaces constructed through fiction can remain vividly etched in our minds. Beyond physical experience, these spaces quietly settle into our memories.

The Fourth Cycle of the Architectural Haiku Writing Contest calls for an exploration of Architecture and Memories. We invite participants to share with us, in just 17 syllables, the architecture that has settled in their memories.

Theme Curator for 4th and 5th Cycle: Preksha Udupa, AJC+ Associate (Rwanda, East Africa)

We welcome haiku entries from collegians, professionals, academicians, researchers, and design enthusiasts. The contest is open to all.

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions are open to all writers in English. International submissions are welcome.

• A maximum of three haiku entries per entrant are allowed.

• An illustration or photograph, either self-photographed, curated, or used with proper credits and permissions, must accompany the haiku.

• Each haiku should not exceed 17 syllables, following the 5–7–5 structure across three lines.

• ajc.competition@gmail.com with the subject line: Architectural Haiku Writing Contest, 4th Cycle – Category.

• All entrants must mention at least one social media handle with the submission, such as Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, or any other relevant platform. and The winners will be announced on AJC+ social media pages.

Note recommended syllable-checking tools: Participants may use online tools such as haikusyllablecounter.com and syllablecounter.net to check the 5–7–5 structure. However, automated syllable counts may vary, so participants are encouraged to manually review the final haiku before submission.

Jury Panel for the Competition comprises

• Sabu Francis, Architect and Researcher, India and founder of Limen Leap Labs Private Limited.

• Dr. Merle Kindred, author of Immersed in India: A Kerala Adventure in Architectural Activism and Gripped by Guyana: A Memoir of Purpose and Adventure.

• Kristiina Oelsner, Project Manager, International Short-Term Programmes, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, and author of Minu (Ida-)Saksamaa. Mineviku ja tuleviku vahel.

• Pappal Suneja, Ph.D. Scholar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany.

• Parichita Mohapatra, Architect and PhD Researcher, IIT Guwahati, and Assistant Professor II, Department of Design, School of Design, Media and Creative Arts, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru, India.

• Sanan Verma, Architect-Planner, Assistant Professor, Poet, and Author of Book Kuch Meri Kitaab Se.

Timeline

Submission window for the cycle: 1 July 2026 – 30 October 2026

Registration

• Early Bird Registration till 16 August 2026 (800 INR for participants from India and 10 Euros for international participants)

Indian participants can follow the link to register, and international participants can enter here.

• Standard Registration till 29 October 2026 (1200 INR for participants from India and 15 Euros for international participants)

For queries, contact: plusajc@gmail.com

Winning Prizes for the Competition are

Citation Award: An AJC curated set of books worth 11000 INR / 120 USD.

Special Mention 1: An AJC curated set of books worth 9500 INR / 100 USD.

Special Mention 2: An AJC curated set of books worth 7500 INR / 80 USD.

Total Prize: Books worth 28000 INR / 300 USD.

Besides this, we shall send attested E-Certificates of Participation to all entrants, and the winning entries shall be featured on several web architectural portals. The best entries shall also be compiled as an anthology with ISBN No. after the successful run of all the cycles under this Series.

For further updates regarding the outreach activities and events, Visit the Instagram and Facebook handle of the Organisation.

Competition Poster by Team AJC+ (Background image created with OpenAI)

Via > https://www.ajc-plus.com/post/open-call-architectural-haiku-writing-contest-4th-cycle-architecture-and-memories

Architecture is a discipline of consequences. Buildings organise forms of life, consume resources, shape territories, and materialise political, economic, and cultural decisions. By projecting itself into the future, architecture also projects consequences into the future. The question of what architecture builds can therefore never be separated from the question of what architecture enables, excludes, preserves, or destroys. 

As Robin Evans observed, architects work from an anterior position, articulating ideas of buildings before they are built. Architecture operates through anticipation, it makes space for possibilities, expectations, desires, and fears. Yet every anticipation is also an act of selection. To imagine one future means to abandon or neglect others. Projections establish priorities, planning privileges certain forms of life over others.  

Anticipation presupposes a degree of confidence in the future. It assumes a future to be imagined, planned, shaped, and improved. Such confidence has become increasingly difficult to sustain. Ecological crises, resource depletion, social inequalities, technological transformations, political instability, and the persistence of colonial structures challenge not only the futures architecture projects but also the concepts, methods, institutions, and forms of knowledge through which those futures are imagined. Concepts, methods, institutions, and forms of knowledge through which architecture projects futures have themselves become objects of scrutiny.  

In response, architectural discourse increasingly turns toward a family of operations gathered around a simple prefix: un-. 

Unlearning. Undoing. Unbuilding. Unsettling. Unauthoring. Unmaking. 

To undo is not merely to destroy. To unlearn is not simply to forget. To uncover does not create something new but reveals what was already there. The “un-” names movements that begin from within existing conditions. It questions, exposes, loosens, dismantles, revises, and reorients. It describes a process rather than a destination. In architecture, these movements are more than linguistic operations. They challenge the ways in which the discipline imagines, teaches, researches, builds, inhabits, and ultimately anticipates the world. 

Unlearning 

Learning is often associated with accumulation. Yet every form of knowledge also establishes boundaries. It privileges certain histories, methods, and perspectives while rendering others less visible. Unlearning is not the abandonment of knowledge but the difficult work of recognising how assumptions, privileges, and forms of subjectivity are themselves produced. This is the challenge that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak formulates when she calls for the difficult work of unlearning one’s own privilege as one’s loss. Within architecture, unlearning opens inherited histories, theories, pedagogies, and institutions to critical reflection, making visible the exclusions and hierarchies through which architectural knowledge has been produced. 

Undoing 

Undoing begins by asking whether inherited structures can be transformed through inherited tools. Audre Lorde’s claim that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” becomes, for Jane Rendell, the starting point for a further question: what other tools remain at our disposal? Drawing on feminist theory, she imagines undoing not as a new method but as another position from which to think and practice architecture. Rather than separating theory from practice or writing from building, she works from the thresholds between them, questioning architectures of appropriation, ownership, and authorship. Undoing becomes a feminist practice of reimagining architecture through relations of use and misuse, generosity and reciprocity, opening the discipline to other ways of making, inhabiting, and writing architecture. 

Unbuilding 

At a moment marked by ecological limits and material constraints, the production of the new is no longer architecture’s only horizon. Repair, adaptation, maintenance, preservation, reuse, and demolition have become central architectural concerns. What forms of practice emerge when architecture works with what already exists? How do ecological limits challenge assumptions of growth, expansion, and novelty? What can architecture learn from care, maintenance, and stewardship? 

Unsettling 

Many of architecture’s methods rely upon prediction, expertise, and control. Yet ecological, political, and technological transformations increasingly unsettle the conditions under which such claims can be made. Donna Haraway argues not for mastery or withdrawal, but for situated forms of knowing that remain accountable to their own positions and entanglements. From this perspective, uncertainty is not a problem to be overcome but a condition from which architectural thought and practice must proceed. Unsettling invites architecture to work with complexity, contradiction, and partial perspectives, engaging futures that remain open, contested, and unresolved. 

Unauthoring 

Architecture continues to privilege the figure of the architect as the author of buildings, projects, and ideas. Yet architectural work is always the result of many forms of labour, negotiation, maintenance, inhabitation, and care that often remain unacknowledged. Unauthoring does not deny responsibility. It questions how authorship is attributed, whose work becomes visible, and whose contributions remain invisible. It shifts attention from the singular author to the relations through which architecture is collectively produced, maintained, and transformed. 

Unmaking 

Unmaking asks what architecture itself may need to relinquish. Assumptions of progress, extraction, growth, authorship, expertise, and professional autonomy continue to shape the discipline’s understanding of its own role. Yet contemporary debates on decarbonisation, restitution, reparation, care, maintenance, and material life cycles increasingly suggest that architecture cannot simply add new concerns to existing practices. Certitudes and assumptions may first have to be undone before other ways of knowing, designing, building, and inhabiting become possible.  

The “un-” unfolds across architectural thought, practice, research, and education. It moves between different scales, from the individual to the institutional, from buildings and materials to labour, knowledge, and the discipline itself. The operations gathered here mark only some of the trajectories through which architecture can be reconsidered, leaving space for others to emerge.

COTAA #3 invites researchers, practitioners, historians, theorists, educators, doctoral researchers, artists, and independent scholars to contribute to this ongoing conversation. We welcome theoretical, historical, methodological, and practice-based contributions that engage with the “un-” in architecture, whether through the operations proposed here or through others that challenge inherited assumptions and expand the possibilities of architectural thought, practice, and research. 

- Adria Daraban, guest editor of COTAA 3/2026 

Guidelines for authors: The third issue of COTAA welcomes abstract submissions of no more than 300 words, including references, bibliography, and image descriptions. Images should be submitted in black and white, in JPEG (.jpeg) format. All materials should be compiled into a single editable Microsoft Word file or a Microsoft Word-compatible document, using minimal formatting. All submissions to COTAA must be written in UK English. 

Abstracts and review proposals should be sent by e-mail at office@cotaa.ro no later than 10th August 2026. 

Authors will be notified of the outcome of their submissions on 17th August 2026. 

The final version of accepted papers should be between 5,000 and 6,000 words and will undergo a double-blind peer review process. 

Review proposals should be submitted in the same format as abstract submissions and according to the same submission schedule. The final version of accepted reviews should not exceed 2,000 words. 

Calendar: 

Brief launch: 1st of July, 2026 

Submission of abstracts: 10th of August, 2026  

Notification of acceptance: 17th of August, 2026  

Full paper submission for double-blind peer review: 10th of October, 2026 

Peer review results sent to authors: 10th of November, 2026  

Final paper submission: 15th of December, 2026 

Journal publication: 1st of February, 2027

For more information please visit COTAA's website.

It may not be your first instinct to consider how a building makes you feel, yet architecture has always had a profound impact on human emotions. Different spaces are designed to evoke different responses: offices can make us feel energised and productive, art galleries thoughtful and curious, and museums calm and intrigued. These spaces are far more than mere structures—they shape our experiences.

Now in its 9th edition, the Museum of Emotions competition continues to challenge participants to use architecture as a tool for emotional expression. Designers are invited to create a museum with two distinct halls that evoke contrasting emotional states—one inducing negative emotions and the other positive.

Participants are free to choose which emotions their designs provoke, whether fear, anger, anxiety, love, happiness, laughter, or others. The goal is to explore how architecture alone can generate emotional responses through spatial scale, sequence and movement, colour, lighting, and materiality.

As an ideas competition, participants may select any site—real or imaginary—and define the size of their proposal.

Museum of Emotions is one of Buildner’s silent competitions, requiring participants to communicate their ideas without the use of text. All concepts and design intentions must be conveyed exclusively through visual representation.

PRIZES

3 winning proposals, 1 special award recipient and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Buildner will award a total of 8,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:

1st Prize - 4,000 €
2nd Prize - 2,000 €
3rd Prize - 1,000 €
+ 6 honourable mentions

Buildner Student Award - 1,000 €

COMPETITION SCHEDULE

Early Bird Registration: June 22 – September 10
Advance Registration: September 11 – November 12
Last Minute Registration: November 13 – January 21

Final registration deadline: January 21, 2027
Closing date for submission: February  22, 2027 (23:59 LONDON TIME)
Announcement of the winners: April 13, 2027

More: https://architecturecompetitions.com/museumofemotions9/

Van Alen Institute and BMA are collaborating to select an emerging designer or artist to create a temporary public design installation, to be on view March 2027–January 2028. Located Mitchel Square in Washington Heights (the northern end of the Broadway malls), this installation will explore the theme of eco-mutualism, highlighting ecological interactions that address climate change, wellbeing, or equity. 

Successful applications should demonstrate an understanding of the neighborhood’s ecological, cultural, and historical context. Designers and artists with a connection to Washington Heights are especially encouraged to apply. (Part of a team, collaborative, studio, or firm? Only one person needs to respond, but your responses should reflect the availability, opinion, and work of the group.) 

 From this open call, three shortlisted designers/teams will be invited to submit a proposal. Van Alen will award shortlisted designers/teams $1,000 upon submission of their proposals. One winning proposal will be implemented. Van Alen will award the selected designer/team $8,000 as a fee for development and delivery of the project, and $25,000 for direct expenses for production, fabrication, and installation.

Learn more and apply to the Open Call: https://www.vanalen.org/project/bma-design-installation/

Introducing the sixth Architect’s Chair competition, an exciting opportunity for architects and designers to showcase their creativity, versatility, and design vision through the creation of a signature piece of furniture. Developed in partnership with Stockholm Furniture Fair, the world’s leading platform for Scandinavian design, this edition offers participants the unique opportunity to engage directly with one of the most influential events in the international furniture and design industry.

Inspired by the long-standing tradition of architects extending their design philosophy beyond buildings and into furniture, the competition challenges participants to distill their architectural thinking into a single object – the architect’s chair. Throughout history, renowned architects such as Charles and Ray Eames, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Arne Jacobsen have created iconic chairs that embody their distinct design approaches. The Architect’s Chair competition continues this tradition by inviting a new generation of designers to explore materials, craftsmanship, construction techniques, ergonomics, and innovation through the design of a chair that reflects their unique creative identity.

This sixth edition carries special significance through its collaboration with Stockholm Furniture Fair. The competition results evaluation process will take place in connection with the fair, bringing submitted projects into direct dialogue with one of the most important gatherings of architects, designers, manufacturers, and industry leaders. In addition, selected winning designs will be exhibited during the Stockholm Furniture Fair, providing participants with an exceptional opportunity to present their work to an international audience and gain visibility within the global design community.

As part of an ongoing series dedicated to custom furniture design, The Architect’s Chair encourages participants to move beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture and engage with furniture as a medium for architectural expression. By creating a signature chair that embodies their personal design philosophy, participants contribute to the evolving relationship between architecture, design, and craftsmanship while joining a tradition that continues to shape the future of contemporary furniture design.

PRIZES

3 winning proposals, 2 special award recipients and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Buildner will award a total of 8,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:

1st Prize - 3,500 €
2nd Prize - 2,000 €
3rd Prize - 1,000 €
+ 6 honourable mentions

Buildner Student Award - 1,000 €
Buildner Sustainability Award - 500 €

COMPETITION SCHEDULE

Early Bird Registration: JUNE 17 – JULY 23
Advance Registration: JULY 24 – SEPTEMBER 24
Last Minute Registration: SEPTEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 3 

Final registration deadline: DECEMBER 3 , 2026
Closing date for submission: JANUARY 5, 2027 (11:59 p.m. LONDON TIME)
Announcement of the winners: FEBRUARY 10, 2027

More:  https://architecturecompetitio...

Cape Verde occupies a unique position at the crossroads of Africa, Europe and the Atlantic. Across its islands, centuries of migrations and exchanges have shaped a layered cultural identity and a landscape defined by the complexity of the territory.

But Cape Verde is not only a territory of memory. It is also a country in transformation, entering a new phase of growth driven by infrastructure, tourism, international investment and the need for more resilient models of development. This condition makes architecture especially relevant: the question is not how to build more, but how to build better.

Cidade Velha, on the island of Santiago, is one of the most significant places in the history of the archipelago. Founded in the 15th century as Ribeira Grande, it was the first urban settlement and a strategic centre along the Atlantic routes. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009, its ruins, forts, stone and relationship with the ocean still reveal a deep and fragile identity.

ARCH CHALLENGE begins from this opportunity, in which we believe a lot: real sites, real constraints and real potential, where geography, climate, memory and growth guide the project from the very beginning.

BRIEF

Architecture and territory are closely related. With Challenge 01 – Linha do Horizonte, ARCH CHALLENGE is looking for proposals for a residential complex capable of belonging to the place before occupying it, designing with the land, not over it.

The competition seeks a high-end residential complex of approximately 10 to 18 housing units – independent villas, grouped apartments or a combination of both – across studio to three-bedroom typologies (T0–T3). Buildings should rise on a maximum of two levels, following a principle of low density and low visual impact, working with the slopes, views, orientation and the presence of the ocean.

The programme also includes a shared swimming pool integrated into the landscape, a compact technical room, and carefully integrated access, paths and parking treated as essential components of the design rather than residual surfaces. Among the winning proposals, one project may be selected to be further developed and potentially realized, so feasibility is a central criterion.

REGISTRATION TIMELINE:

01/07/2026  EARLY BIRD registration opening - 90.- / 45.-* EUR / team

01/08/2026  STANDARD registration opening - 120.- / 60.-* EUR / team

16/09/2026  LATE registration opening - 150.- / 75.-* EUR / team

*Reduced (Accessibility) fee for participants from eligible countries. Submission deadline is the same for all phases: 12/10/2026.

PRIZES (check the details on the organisers’ website)

1st PRIZE - Total value: 10.000 EUR

2nd PRIZE - Total value: 5.000 EUR

3rd PRIZE - Total value: 2.500 EUR

HONOURABLE MENTIONS - 3 x 1.000 EUR (Best Environmental Integration, Best Parking Integration, Best AI-Assisted Vision)

www.archchallenge.net

The Swiss Finance & Property Group (SFP Group) invites students of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, spatial planning, and related disciplines to participate in the Walzwerk Student Design Competition, an international ideas competition exploring the future of one of Switzerland's former industrial sites.

Located between Münchenstein and Arlesheim in Basel-Landschaft, Walzwerk has evolved from a historic aluminium factory into a thriving destination for work, culture, education, and leisure. Home to more than 90 tenants, the site now enters a new phase of transformation as it seeks to become a vibrant mixed-use urban district that builds on its industrial heritage while responding to contemporary social and environmental challenges.

Participants are invited to develop a conceptual vision for the future of Walzwerk that balances preservation with innovation. Rather than replacing the site's existing character, proposals should explore how new architecture, public space, landscape, and program can strengthen its identity, create lasting social and economic value, and establish stronger connections with the surrounding communities.

Projects will be evaluated across five equally weighted criteria: Urban Continuity & Landscape, Economic Viability & Feasibility, Social Diversity & Inclusion, Identity & Narrative, and Ecology & Sustainability. The competition encourages ambitious yet realistic proposals that demonstrate a clear spatial vision for a resilient, inclusive, and future-oriented urban district.

The competition is open to students currently enrolled at recognized universities or universities of applied sciences. Entries may be submitted individually or in teams of up to four members, with interdisciplinary collaborations encouraged.

Awards

The three winning teams will receive cash prizes and have their projects exhibited publicly at the Walzwerk Christmas Market:

• 1st Prize: CHF 5,000
• 2nd Prize: CHF 2,500
• 3rd Prize: CHF 1,000

Schedule

• Competition Launch: June 2026
• Online Q&A Session: 6 August 2026
• Optional Site Tour & Q&A: 22 September 2026
• Submission Deadline: October 18th, 2026 (23:59)
• Final Presentations & Award Ceremony: November 11th, 2026
• Public Exhibition: November 21st-22nd, 2026

Submission Requirements

Participants must submit:

• One vertical A0 presentation board (PDF, max. 20 MB) including the design concept, site strategy, proposed program, drawings, diagrams, plans, sections, elevations, visualizations, and a brief explanation of the material and intervention strategy.
• One A4 summary sheet (PDF) using the provided template, including team information, a project summary, and a short statement explaining how the proposal addresses each of the five evaluation criteria.

All entries must be submitted digitally by October 18th, 2026 (23:59) to hochschulwettbewerb@sfp.ch. Registered participants will receive the complete competition documentation, including site plans, maps, and supporting materials.

More infos here: Student Design Competition - Swiss Finance & Property Group

Call for Papers and Participation

Advanced Design Conference 2026 Unites Academia, Industry and Government in Como, Italy

Two-day international conference within the World Design Intelligence Summit will convert research presentations into permanently archived, globally promoted intellectual assets on July 18–19, 2026 — abstract submissions now open

The A' Design Award will convene the Advanced Design Conference on Saturday, 18 July and Sunday, 19 July 2026, at the Sala Bianca del Teatro Sociale in Como, Italy, bringing together academics, industry practitioners, and government representatives for two days of keynotes, research presentations, workshops, and structured networking. Researchers, practitioners, and doctoral candidates are invited to submit research abstracts for consideration. The Advanced Design Conference is organized within the wider World Design Intelligence Summit, a four-day program running 16–19 July 2026 that also encompasses the A' Design Award Gala Night and Awards Ceremony, the Ars Futura Cultura Symposium, and the World Design Exhibition.

The Advanced Design Conference is built on a deliberate theory-practice-governance structure. Each of the seven Advanced Design Conference thematic tracks, spanning products and architecture, current design trends, future visions and governance, innovation promotion, peer-reviewed academic research, design tools and materials, and doctoral studies, is designed to connect scholarly frameworks with market implementation and policy development.

Every accepted contribution at the Advanced Design Conference enters a comprehensive dissemination system designed for lasting scholarly impact: open-access publication, a permanent Academic Citation and Digital Research Object Identifier (ACDROI), multilingual abstract translations, institutional press release distribution, editorial feature coverage, search and AI-discovery optimization, and measurable World University Rankings rating points, ensuring each work continues generating citations and visibility long after the event.

"A great idea deserves more than a moment on stage; we built the Advanced Design Conference to extend that stage indefinitely," said Dr. Cobanli of the A' Design Award. "By placing researchers, practicing designers, and policymakers in the same rooms, and then permanently archiving and actively promoting their contributions, we turn a two-day event into a lasting engine for design intelligence."

The Advanced Design Conference offers multiple participation pathways, including keynote speeches, in-person research presentations, virtual and digital presentations, papers, posters, panel discussions, workshops, exhibition showcases, and general attendance. Research abstracts may be submitted free of charge at the pre-qualification stage, with the academic track maintaining anonymous blind peer review. University professors, tenured academics, and A' Design Award laureates benefit from an expedited acceptance process. A dedicated digital participation option extends full publication and promotion benefits to scholars worldwide, regardless of location.

The surrounding World Design Intelligence Summit program opens on 16 July 2026 with the black-tie La Notte Premio A' Gala Night and Awards Ceremony at Teatro Sociale Como, followed on 17 July by the Ars Futura Cultura Symposium and executive roundtables. The World Design Exhibition, showcasing award-winning products and prototypes, runs in parallel throughout the conference, while the World Design Talks keynote series sets the strategic agenda across both conference days.

Registration to the Advanced Design Conference is now open, with current rates available through Saturday, 11 July 2026; prices increase thereafter. Participation options range from digital passes to full institutional and governance packages. Complete details, track descriptions, and submission guidelines are available on the Advanced Design Conference website.

About the Advanced Design Conference
The Advanced Design Conference is an international, multidisciplinary design conference organized by the A' Design Award within the World Design Intelligence Summit. Serving as a convergence point for design theory, industry practice, and governance, the conference features peer-reviewed academic tracks, industry sessions, keynotes, and workshops across disciplines from industrial design and architecture to service design and strategy. Accepted contributions receive open-access publication, permanent ACDROI identifiers, and active global promotion. The Advanced Design Conference 2026 edition takes place 18–19 July at Sala Bianca del Teatro Sociale, Como, Italy. Interested parties may visit https://www.advanceddesignconference.com to learn more about the Advanced Design Conference.

About the A' Design Award
Established in 2008, the A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried, academic, and prized award recognizing outstanding design across all major industries, from industrial design and architecture to communication, fashion, and service innovation. Entries are evaluated through anonymous blind peer review by a grand jury of academics, industry professionals, and journalists. Driven by a philanthropic mission to make the world a better place through good design, eligible laureates receive the comprehensive A' Design Prize, including global publicity, exhibition, and publication benefits.

About La Notte Premio A'
La Notte Premio A' is the A' Design Award's annual black-tie, red-carpet Gala Night and Awards Ceremony, regarded as one of the most exclusive social events in the design world. Held at historic venues in Como, Italy, the ceremony honors laureates individually on stage with trophies, framed certificates, and yearbooks, attended by leading designers, brands, press members, ambassadors, and industry executives. The 2026 edition takes place 16 July at Teatro Sociale Como.

About the Ars Futura Cultura Symposium
Ars Futura Cultura is an exclusive, invitation-only networking and symposium event for A' Design Award laureates, held on the day following the Gala Night against the backdrop of Lake Como. The event facilitates personal introductions among award-winning designers, architects, and brands, fostering international collaborations, knowledge exchange, and business development, while providing laureates with practical guidance on leveraging their award status for professional growth.

About the World Design Exhibition
The World Design Exhibition is a curated showcase of award-winning products, prototypes, and innovative projects presented in parallel with the Advanced Design Conference and World Design Intelligence Summit. The exhibition offers attendees direct, hands-on interaction with exceptional physical designs and groundbreaking prototypes, with limited opportunities available for designers to submit work for consideration and inclusion.

About World Design Talks
World Design Talks are the keystone keynote sessions of the Advanced Design Conference, where thought leaders, policymakers, and experts deliver visionary addresses on global design intelligence. Topics evolve annually with emerging societal and technological challenges, spanning artificial intelligence, emergent materials, inclusive methodologies, social innovation, sustainability, governance models, and creative entrepreneurship, connecting academic theory with industry practice and forward-thinking governance.

About the World Design Intelligence Summit
The World Design Intelligence Summit is the overarching four-day framework organized by the A' Design Award, uniting the Advanced Design Conference, La Notte Premio A' Gala Night and Awards Ceremony, Ars Futura Cultura Symposium, World Design Exhibition, and World Design Talks, alongside closed-door strategic and governance sessions. The Summit's mission is to increase design knowledge worldwide and help companies, governments, designers, and architects prepare for tomorrow, with emphasis on economic development, design strategy, and societal benefit.

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Join us for an evening with Matías Tarnopolsky, the Linda and Mitch Hart President & CEO of the New York Philharmonic and one of the leading cultural executives of his generation. With a career spanning some of the world’s foremost orchestras, performing arts centers, and universities, Tarnopolsky has championed innovative partnerships, expanded audiences, and strengthened the role of cultural institutions as civic anchors. His work has consistently focused on connecting artistic excellence with public life, fostering new collaborations, and bringing music to broader and more diverse communities.

Hosted by Emmy Award–winning writer Randy Cohen, Person Place Thing invites remarkable guests to share stories about one person, one place, and one thing that hold special meaning to them. The evening will also feature live music by Duo Kayo, the chamber music partnership of violist Edwin Kaplan and cellist Titilayo Ayangade. Drawing on more than two decades of combined experience with ensembles including the Tesla Quartet, Palaver Strings, and Thalea String Quartet, the duo is dedicated to expanding the chamber music repertoire through commissions, premieres, and fresh interpretations of classical works. Their adventurous programming and expressive performances invite audiences to experience chamber music in new ways.

Sponsored by the Viñoly Foundation and hosted at Rafael Viñoly Architects’ headquarters in Lower Manhattan, this live conversation promises an evening of thoughtful dialogue, music, and creative insight. Drawing on decades of leadership across the cultural sector, Tarnopolsky offers a deeply personal perspective on music, community, and the enduring power of the arts to inspire connection, imagination, and civic life.

THE PLAYGROUND, the National Building Museum’s bold and interactive summer installation, transforms the Museum’s Great Hall into a monumental, sculptural landscape inspired by the familiar experience of a public park. Designed for all ages, THE PLAYGROUND encourages movement, exploration, and interaction, creating an immersive environment where play becomes a shared social and cultural experience.

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Cities across the United States face increasingly complex social, technological, and environmental challenges, the next chapter of mobility must extend beyond infrastructure to prioritize human experience, inclusivity, and sustainability.

Join Mormedi at gathering of forward-thinking innovators, policymakers, and design leaders, to explore actionable outcomes for New York and other U.S. cities to evolve through integrated, data-driven, and sustainable mobility solutions.

The event is free. RSVP here.

From visionary Plug-in cities to the vibrant world of Pop Art and the call for radical architecture, find out how Sir Peter Cook, co- founder of Archigram, influenced a generation of architects including former students, STUFISH and Rem Koolhaas. In this talk he will share his path towards architecture, the importance of creativity, playfulness, drawing, and the significance of postwar modern technology. He not only redefined architecture, he rebuilt the schools for creative architects.

Biography
Sir Peter Cook RA is a titan of architectural innovation. He is currently the director of Peter Cook Studio. As a founder of the radical experimentalist group Archigram, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for redefining the possibilities of the discipline. Former Director of the Bartlett and the ICA, he was knighted in 2007 for his services to architecture. His works are recognised globally, including Graz Kunsthaus, the Play Pavilion, The Innovation Studio, the Bund University and so on. 

Event Details
Date:  11 Jul
Time: 2 pm
Location:  art'otel London Hoxton
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About Kreative Talks
Kreative Talks, produced by Artificial Kreativity, is a curated speaker series dedicated to sharing the stories behind the creatives shaping the world. Artificial Kreativity launched this initiative in 2025 with the aim of bringing exposure to the creative professions. Previous speakers included Peter Murray OBE, STUFISH, fashion show producer John Walford, and East London mural artist Otto Schade. Learn more about our Kreative Talk series and upcoming speakers here: Kreative Talks

In partnership with
art'otel London Hoxton | Polish Cultural Institute in London | RIBA London | Evelyn Glennie 

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So, what skills as designers we need to make planet-centric decisions and increase our positive influence?

To explore this topic, we invited Cat Drew, Chief Design Officer at Design Council, the powerhouse behind the Double Diamond Framework. From leading Design Council's Design for Planet mission, to creating the world’s first Government AI & Data Ethics Framework Cat has made a career of using design to shift systems to help people to live happier and healthier lives.

In this 90-minute interview, she'll share the Skills for the Planet Blueprint developed by Design Council, to help designers shape a regenerative, resilient and inclusive world for all.

Register: https://fla.wiki/4e0QvNq

Founded by Celia Chaussabel and Ekin Bilal, NOT NOT is a design practice working across architecture, objects, and stories. The office explores the overlooked spaces, materials, and systems that shape the built environment, from maintenance routines and demolition debris to regulatory gray zones and infrastructures that sustain buildings over time.

The eponymous exhibition NOT NOT features a mix of recent work by Chaussabel and Bilal alongside new designs, commissions, and proposals. Side-by-side with architectural drawings and models, the exhibition includes animations, video games, comics, furniture, and other formats that expand how architecture can be made and shared.

Supported by NYSCA and the Architectural League of New York, this exhibition turns Van Alen Institute’s Urban Room into something between a show and a working office. 

Ekin Bilal and Celia Chaussabel are members of the Van Alen Vanguard, a network of 21 emerging design leaders. Activating Van Alen’s space at 303 Bond Street, the Vanguard develops public programs and exhibitions that reimagine designers’ roles in civic life. NOT NOT is the first exhibition presented as part of the Van Alen Vanguard.

As Mark McDonald notes, “In the context of ‘T’ Space, and alongside architecture and furniture, [Saliske’s] sculptures can be read as models for imagined or speculative spaces. There is a push and pull in that ambiguity. The reverse can also happen: architectural models and furniture begin to read as sculpture.”

This dialogue emerged naturally. Saliske elaborates: “They could be architecture, or machine parts, or a section lifted from nature. The viewer brings their own experiences to an abstract form to make sense of it. When I make sculpture, all forms in my environment are available consciously or unconsciously. The trick for me is to keep this information suspended so that everything is in play at once.”

The exhibition includes works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Rudolph Schindler, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel, Philip Johnson, Serge Chermayeff, Henry P. Glass, and Richard Meier.

An interview by Kelly Pope with Mark McDonald and Margaret Saliske further explores these intersections of sculpture, furniture, architecture, and space. Read the full interview here.

Opening Sunday, June 14, 11 – 5  

On view through August 23,  2026

Archive Gallery Open Hours: Sundays 11 – 5  

60 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck, NY 12572

Mark McDonald is a leading authority on twentieth-century design. For over four decades, he has advised leading collectors and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Vitra Design Museum. Frequently cited as an expert in national publications, he has also contributed to books on design from the 1930s through the 1970s.

In 1982, McDonald co-founded Fifty/50 in New York City with Ralph Cutler and Mark Isaacson, pioneering the research, exhibition, marketing, and sale of what became known as Mid-Century Modern design. He later opened Gansevoort Gallery and, after relocating to the Hudson Valley in 2003, continued dealing in exceptional examples of mid-century design. Today he works from Hudson L-House, designed by Steven Holl Architects, where he continues to advise collectors and museums while specializing in rare mid-century design and studio jewelry.

Margaret Saliske lived and worked in New York City until moving to the Hudson Valley in 1989. She has a B.A. degree from Bennington College and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in studio art. In 2018 she received an Apexart fellowship to Seoul South Korea and in 2019 was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.

She exhibited her work at Artists Space and 55 Mercer Street Gallery in New York City before moving upstate where she has shown her work at numerous area galleries. She exhibited with Pamela Salisbury in Hudson NY and Lockwood Gallery in Kingston NY. In 2023, she was represented at Art Taipei by Carrie Chen Gallery. She was recently included in “Let It Shine” an exhibition of New York artists in Mark McDonald’s L House designed by Steven Holl. Saliske lives and works in Hudson, New York. 

October 8–10, 2026 | Portland State University | Portland, Oregon

We are excited to announce the Structures for Inclusion (SFI) Conference 2026. This year's theme is Indigenous Public Interest Design: Cultural Knowledge and Practices. Over three days, speakers, practitioners, researchers, and community members will share built works, strategies, and practices that center Indigenous wisdom in design and the built environment.

Co-organized by Design Corps, the SEED Network, the Center for Public Interest Design (CPID), and the ITECK Program at Portland State University.

We look forward to gathering in October to share Indigenous knowledge, celebrate exemplary design and shape positive futures together.

Register on Eventbrite → 

Call for Papers

Abstract Deadline: June 19, 2026

CPID, ITECK, and Design Corps invite scholars and practitioners to submit abstracts for 20-minute presentations on topics in Indigenous Public Interest Design. We welcome work across eight thematic areas: Food Sovereignty; Land Rights / Reclaiming the Land; Land as Pedagogy and Sacred Connection; Urban Indigenous Experiences and Spatial Justice; Indigenous Design Methodologies and Community Engagement; Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Relationality, and Practice; Storytelling as Collaborative Past and Futures; and Open Session. Papers selected will be presented by authors at the Structures for Inclusion conference.

Proposals must include contact information, a 250-word abstract, and four keywords. Selected presenters will be notified in July; full papers are due September 10, 2026, with publication to follow in Fall 2026.

Submit Your Abstract →

Indigenous SEED Awards: Call for Entries

Deadline July 1, 2026

The 2026 Indigenous SEED competition is open. Five Awards for Excellence in Indigenous Public Interest Design will be selected by a jury of seven Indigenous leaders to honor projects that exemplify excellence in Indigenous design. Each winner will receive a $1,500 honorarium and present their work at the SFI Conference. The award and conference are co-organized by Design Corps, the SEED Network, CPID, and ITECK. Entries are free of charge.

• Application deadline: July 1, 2026, 11:59 PM EST

• Winners announced: August 21, 2026