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FORECAST 9: THE SELECTED MENTEES 2024

The Projects in Forecast’s Ninth Edition Have Been Selected

The 2024-25 edition of Forecast Mentorships enters its concentrated mentoring phase as each mentor has now selected one project to continue to accompany to its completion. →

FORECAST 8: THE SELECTED MENTEES 2023

Announcing the Six Projects in Forecast’s Eighth Edition

Forecast Mentorships for Audacious Minds enters its concentrated mentoring phase as each mentor has now selected one project to continue to accompany to its completion. →

Forecast 7: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the 2023 Forecast Festival

Forecast 7 culminated in a two-day event which marked the conclusion of the 2022-23 edition. From March 17–18, the mentees premiered their projects at Radialsystem and the mentors each presented unique work. In addition, LINA fellows Studio Inscape and Tevi Allan Mensah offered workshops relating to their respective practices as urbanists and architects. →

Forecast Festival: Peny Chan

Finding and Redefining the Concubine’s Voice

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan casts a female gaze on the Peking Opera and finds her voice within it by teasing out the tensions between tradition and the contemporary moment. →

Forecast Festival: Hamza Baig

Humor as a Resilient and Transcendent Remedy

Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project The Marblous Four, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown superhero. →

Forecast Festival: Luciana Decker Orozco

Reworlding Stories to Embody Collectivity

Luciana Decker Orozco’s film installation draws upon ancient oral traditions from the Bolivian Andes that imbue nature with personhood to revere and protect it. →

Forecast Festival: Alexis Guillier

The Latent Politics of Filmset Accidents

Alexis Guillier’s project explores what happens when, instead of moving past accidents in Lebanon, we investigate them. →

Forecast Festival: Mia Stark

To Optimize Your View, Let Things Get a Bit Absurd First

The deadpan humor of Mia Štark’s project An Anthology of Glances is an opportunity to understand the wealth of perspectives available through our bodies. →

The Work-Stay: Berlin

Peny Chan Brings the Female Gaze to the Peking Opera

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan and her mentor Rully Shabara met in Berlin in mid-November to work on Chan’s composition, which reimagines the character of the concubine in the Peking opera. →
Forecast Forum: Mentors and Nominees

Join Our Livestream from October 29–31

The Forecast Forum Goes Digital

The eighteen nominees in Forecast’s fifth edition will share their projects with the public for the first time during three days of live performances, music, films, and lecture performances livestreamed online from their locations around the world. →
Anders Nilsen and Jonas Madden-Connor at Comic Arts Brooklyn fair

The Work-Stay: New York

Jonas Madden-Connor and Anders Nilsen Explore the Comics Library at Columbia

The work-stay is a new element of the Forecast program. Here, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for several days of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring. Cartoonist Jonas Madden-Connor and his mentor in the Ink Paper Thought category, Anders Nilsen, were the first tandem to meet for an intensive five days of in-person collaboration. →
Stefan Maier and Alan Martín Segal

Revisit: Stefan Maier

Catching Up with Musician Stefan Maier

On September 20, the Canadian musician and former Forecast mentee premiered a new work at Ultima, Oslo’s leading music festival. →

Forecast Forum 2019

The Candidates Have Been Selected! →

Jerszy Seymour: Energy Totem 2, R.I.N

Open Call 2019

Envision New Paths

We’re delighted to announce that the call for proposals for Forecast’s fourth edition is now open. Artists and practitioners working in all creative fields anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply with projects that tackle issues concerning the future, and what can we do to actively shape it. For this edition, Forecast has selected →

Updates 2019

News and Updates for the Coming Year →

Artistic Director Freo Majer on the Third Edition of Forecast

Snowball Effect

For the third edition of Forecast, we want­ed to match if not surpass the success of the first two festivals, not merely with different mentors and mentees, but also with new working methods and event formats. Feed­back from former partici­pants and mentors encouraged us to explore and experiment further—as radi­cally as ever, with all the associ­ated risks. →

Forecast Festival 2018, Program

Immerse Yourself in Six Cutting-Edge Projects

The third edition of the Forecast Festival presents six pioneering projects created and developed by emerging practitioners along with their mentors.

Living Matter

Working with a Material in an Unpredictable Way

Artist Laura Lima often uses immaterial phenomena and living matter as the basis of her artworks. She also defined the category of her mentorship at Forecast as Living Matter, explaining that “living matter can be an idea, inanimate material; or it can also be fiction, a philosophical matter, an invention, a new possibility of working with a material in an unpredictable way.” →

Composition

Expanding the Idea of What Composition Can Be

For musician and mentor Holly Herndon, the category Composition refers to time-based work either in the form of documentation/recorded media, performance, or a combination thereof. “My primary focus concerns, but is not limited to, sound,” she says. She selected the three projects that will be presented at the Forecast Forum for their ability to reflect →

Invasive Design

Inquiries into Alternative Futures

Design curator and museum director Tulga Beyerle borrowed the term Invasive Design from Robert Stadler, the designer who coined it, to define her mentorship’s topic. “[Invasive Design] describes how design is not always as clear, functional, or positive as it pretends to be” she says. “My particular interest is to ask what design can do →

Open Call 2018

The Call for Proposals Is Closed →

Forecast 2017, summary

The Cycle Starts All Over Again

A brief moment to breathe: In late October 2017, our second edition of Forecast closed with an enormously energetic Forecast Festival. “It was a huge success, and I’m a bit overwhelmed,” joked Forecast founder and artistic director Freo Majer, commenting on the project’s past year and especially the Festival itself. At the event, each of →

Mathieu Bujnowskyj

Architecture in the Post-Digital Age

By exploring ways of using architecture to address the needs of a society tethered to digital technologies, Mathieu Bujnowskyj’s partnership with mentor Phillippe Rahm is inciting questions on the discourse of the discipline itself. From WiFi to 3G, from the cloud to our constant attachment to smartphones, everything and everyone is perpetually connected. As part →

Future Architecture Platform

Designing the Future of Architecture

The Future Architecture Platform brings together architecture museums, festivals, and organizers from across Europe to communicate topics and questions concerning the future of architecture and cities to a wider audience. For the past year, Forecast has been an associate member of this unique network, which was initiated in 2015 by the Museum of Architecture and →

Forecast 2015/16

A Look Back to the Future

If you would like to find out more about Forecast as a platform for pioneering ideas, have a look at our website from the first edition (2015/16). The blog entries provide a chronological overview of how Forecast works, from our call for proposals and selection of ideas to realizing these ideas in mentor/mentee duos and →

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It is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Forecast is a project by Skills e.V. It is Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

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