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Forecast Festival: Liu Mei

Echoes of Darkness

Starting from China’s nationwide lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic, Liu Mei’s research moves between various societies, times, and political struggles to map the underground rhizomes of connected structures of violence and spirituality. →

FORECAST 10: THE CALL FOR IDEAS HAS ENDED

Nominees Will Be Announced on April 10,2025 →

OPEN CALL 2025

The Call for Ideas Is Open

We’re delighted to announce the six new mentors and open call for applications for the tenth anniversary edition of Forecast Mentorships. →

FORECAST 9: THE CALL FOR IDEAS HAS ENDED

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 7, 2024 →

From left: Alice Ripoll, Ute Wassermann, Tomer Heymann, Fiona Raby, Theo Eshetu, Lieko Shiga.

Open Call 2024

The Call for Ideas Is Open

We’re happy to announce the six new mentors and call for ideas for the ninth edition of Forecast Mentorships. →

Forecast thanks Mila Teshaieva for her contribution to and engagement with Forecast Mentorships, and her dedication to her applicants and nominees.

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FORECAST 8: THE CALL FOR IDEAS HAS ENDED

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 9, 2023 →

OPEN CALL 2023

Apply to Forecast 8

We’re happy to announce the six new mentors in Forecast's eighth edition and the call for ideas. →

Forecast Presents

Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes for Eco-social Renewal

From November 25–27, 2022, Driving the Human mounts a three-day festival that marks the culmination of three years of transdisciplinary collaboration, research, and experimentation connecting the sciences and the arts. →

Forecast 7: The Call for Ideas Has Ended

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 4, 2022 →

Open Call 2022

Apply to Forecast's Mentorship Program

We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s seventh edition and call for ideas. →

A Project by Walter Palmetshofer

Trust Zone Experiment

Economist and Net activist Walter Palmetshofer is a nominee in the category Data Democracy and the Green Transition, overseen by Francesca Bria. →

A Project by Awuor Onyango

Woman (of) Substance

Artist Awuor Onyango is nominated in the category Sensing the World, mentored by Emeka Ogboh, with a project that explores how much of Kenya’s history can be uncovered through a mother’s personal history of scents. →

A Project by Yasmin Schönmann

The Other Space

Video artist and dancer Yasmin Schönmann is a nominee in the category From Stories to Spaces, mentored by Tatiana Bilbao. Her proposal encompasses a community-run, mixed-use art space. →

A Project by Sarah Oberrauch

Playground Stories

Curator and educator Sarah Oberrauch is nominated in the category From Stories to Spaces, mentored by Tatiana Bilbao. Her proposal is an imaginative playground that would stimulate children's creativity rather than include objects meant for directed use. →

A project by Jaya Klara Brekke

Dashboards for Posthuman Life

Theorist and designer Jaya Klara Brekke is a nominee in the category Data Democracy and the Green Transition, overseen by digital policy expert Francesca Bria. She proposes fictional data feeds that help users to better understand the impact of their actions on the environment and their own privacy. →

A Project by Simona Deaconescu

Ramanenjana

Simona Deaconescu is nominated in the category Unlimited Gestures, mentored by Mathilde Monnier. She proposes a performative docufiction project looking at Madagascar’s 1863 dancing plague from a contemporary perspective. →

A Project by M.S. Harkness

Time Under Tension

M.S. Harkness is nominated in the category Translating Sensations, mentored by Ulli Lust. Her project for Forecast is a 260-page graphic memoir which examines the author’s life in her twenties as she uses movement and weightlifting to find balance while living with past sexual trauma. The narrative takes place over one year of her life as she becomes a certified personal trainer. →

A Project by Flora Détraz

C–R–I

Dancer and choreographer Flora Détraz is nominated in the category Sound as Organized Time, mentored by Sofia Jernberg. For Forecast, she is creating a solo performance centered on the act of screaming. →

A Project By Talia De Vries

SUN

An interest in the theory of photography led dancer and choreographer Talia de Vries to examine duration and stillness in her work, time and frozen time. As a nominee in the category Sound as Organized Time, mentored by Sofia Jernberg, she proposes an expansion of her research into choreography and voice with a slow-noise performance which focuses on the intense and vibrant passage between a still and moving image, a photo and its soundtrack. →

A Project by Ness Ilene Graza

The Mosquito

A nominee in the category Translating Sensations, mentored by Ulli Lust, Ness Ilene Garza proposes a graphic novel she describes as a "spiritual thriller." →

A Project by Iman Jesmi

Sensory Souvenir

Iranian composer and sound artist Iman Jesmi is nominated in the category Sensing the World, mentored by artist Emeka Ogboh. His project explores the correlation between sounds and smells in European cities, and how they have shifted through immigration. →

A Project by Rylan Gleave

KITH

Composer and performer Rylan Gleave is nominated in the category Sound as Organized Time, mentored by Sofia Jernberg. He will work on a new music-theater piece exploring the changing timbres of his late-breaking voice, three years into artificial testosterone treatments. →

A Project by Luísa Sol

Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion

Architect Luísa Sol is nominated in the category From Stories to Spaces, mentored by Tatiana Bilbao. Her proposal is a reflection on screen-based images of the home and the domestic sphere, and the possible storytelling contained within them. →

A Project by Timothy Lee

Explorations of Budaejigae (Army Base Stew)

Multidisciplinary artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee is a nominee in the field Sensing the World, mentored by Emeka Ogboh. He proposes an investigation and deconstruction of the titular national Korean dish that balances distinctly Korean flavors with American goods introduced during the United States’s military presence and occupation in South Korea. →

A project by Aída Herrera Peña

Gestures of Domestic Memories: A performative way-of-knowing

Designer, dancer, and researcher Aída Herrera Peña is nominated in the category Unlimited Gestures, mentored by Mathilde Monnier, with a project that examines domestic work through an embodied and experiential exploration of gestures. →

A Project by Pamela Breda

The Unexpected: Inquiries into Human–AI Interaction

Artist and filmmaker Pamela Breda is a nominee in the category Data Democracy and the Green Transition, overseen by digital policy expert Francesca Bria. Breda's project comprises a visual and theoretical exploration of the impact of AI interfaces and digital assistants on human rights, with a focus on the field of mental healthcare. →

A Project by Özge Samancı

Evil Eye

Media artist and graphic novelist Özge Samancı is a nominee in the category Translating Sensations, mentored by cartoonist Ulli Lust. Her project for Forecast centers on a murder mystery set in Istanbul ahead of the 1995–96 elections, as a conservative party rises to power using religion to cynically appeal to voters. →

A Project by Samaké Moussa

Kouma Féréleen

Burkinabe dancer and choreographer Samaké Moussa is a nominee in the category Unlimited Gestures, mentored by Mathilde Monnier. For Forecast, he proposes a work that engages with by his own difficult biography and the redemptive power he had found in dance. →

The Call for Ideas Has Ended

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 5, 2021 →

Open Call 2021

Send Us Your Project Idea

We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s sixth edition and call for ideas. →

The Collective of Collectives Presents:

Nasty Temple Radio

Listen to the first installment of the show, which will be continued at the fourth Forecast Festival in April. →

A Project by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]

Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE

Artist and performance curator Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi is a nominee in the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn. She will investigate the relationship between contemporary performance art, rituals and performative artifacts, and organic and inorganic materials. →

A Project by Elijah Ndoumbé

Bienvenue À Ma Table

A nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by Manu Buffara, multidisciplinary artist Elijah Ndoumbé’s project for Forecast is a multimedia eating experience for a live audience. →

A Project by Lulu Obermayer

Frauenliebe und Leben

A nominee in the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn, Lulu Obermayer engages with female subjectivity, agency, and representation in the context of operas and classical music. →

A Project by Aude Christel Mgba

Ne Touche Pas À Mon 237

Curator Aude Christel Mgba is a nominee in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. Her project encompasses an itinerant independent institution, whose first iteration is titled Ne touche pas à MON 237. →

A Project by Andrea Nones-Kobiakov

Whatever That Ground May Be

Artist Andrea Nones-Kobiakov is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by Manu Buffara. She works across photography, performance, and site-specific installations to pursue themes that reflect on displacement and comfort through the materiality of food and ingredients. →

A Project by Ozoz Sokoh

Coast to Coast: From West Africa to the World

Ozoz Sokoh explores the legacy of West African culinary excellence with a project nominated in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. →

A Project by Joana Moll

Inanimate Species

Artist and researcher Joana Moll is nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, with a project that examines the correlation between microprocessors and animal extinction. →

A Project by Matthew C. Wilson

Factitious Flora

Visual artist and experimental filmmaker Matthew C. Wilson is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. His proposal investigates, images, and reimagines possible plant formations. →

A Project by PostRational

CYBER-WASTE

Nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, PostRational deploys methods of research, speculative fiction, and world-building as critical design tools with which to explore questions outside the realm of conventional design and architecture. →

A Project by Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero

Eternal Procession

As nominees in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, musicians Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero propose a project that gives new life to a traditional instrument with a complex history. →

A Project by Myriam Amroun

Programming Rhizome

Myriam Amroun is a cultural practitioner and a curator based in Algiers. She is the artistic director of the cultural organization rhizome, which she cofounded in 2017. Her proposal for Forecast in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh, encompasses a public program on the occasion of rhizome's first physical exhibition space. →

A Project by Mafalda Rakoš

Stop & Go—A Hitchhiker's Finger on the Pulse of Time

Mafalda Rakoš is a documentary photographer trained as an anthropologist. She is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony, with a project that delves into the social psychology of Europe’s highway system, with a destination yet to be determined. →

A Project by The Only Game in Town

LD50: The Vorkoster

In the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn, Only Game in Town (Louise Pons and Mirjam Schaal) propose a series of performances in which three fictional nominees will enter the stomach of a living human being: the Vorkoster. →

A Project by Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo

MOTHERNIGHT

For her project in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo is creating a multichannel video installation that confronts how fertility, eugenics, and class shape the idea of the family based on ethnic belonging. →

A Project by Jonathan Reus

Celestial Fruit on Earthly Ground

As a nominee in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, Jonathan Reus proposes a multidisciplinary project that points at the cultural networks that musical instruments embody. →

A Project by Adéola Ọlágúnjú

Born Throw Way!

Artist Adéola Ọlágúnjú is a nominee in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. Her project explores the subculture, counterculture, and minority variants of loosely organized gangs of young men known as Area Boys in Lagos, Nigeria, and the structures that sustain them. →

A Project by Paula Erstmann

Community Food Lab

Paula Erstmann is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by award-winning chef Manu Buffara. She is part of the sociocultural initiative ZusammenKüche at Dragonerareal, Berlin, a yet undeveloped site for 500 social housing units. There, she proposes to establish a community kitchen that explores the needs of future tenants and neighbors and encourage them to think of food as an aesthetic means of communication and exchange. →

A Project by Yelta Köm

Hide & Seek

Researcher, artist, and architect Yelta Köm is a nominee in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov. His project for Forecast, titled Hide & Seek, looks at mapping technologies, digital image production, and data collection processes to understand how surveillance systems and data-driven structures influence heritage and memory-building, as well as a city‘s appearance. →

News

The Fifth Edition of Forecast Welcomes a New Nominee →

Forecast Responds to the Current Crisis

Candidates to Be Announced on April 30 →

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Open Call 2020

Apply to Forecast's Mentorship Program

We’re delighted to announce that the call for proposals for Forecast’s fifth edition is now open. →

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 →

New interdisciplinary collaboration

Housing the Human

Forecast is pleased to announce the kickoff of Housing the Human, a collaborative interdisciplinary project involving leading European institutions and organizations that revolves around the question what might it mean to house the human—today and in the future. →

Open Call 2018

The Call for Proposals Is Closed →

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 →

Open Call 2017

Thank You for Your Submissions! →

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 →

Open Call 2016

Audacious Minds—Get Ready →

Interview

Playing with the unexpected

In Conversation with Barbara Vanderlinden and Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza What made Kalliopi’s proposal stand out from the rest? Barbara: In the case of Kalliopi’s project proposal, it was definitely the fact that she touches on some underdeveloped aspects of curating, those being sound in relation to space and auditory culture in general. To me, it feels →

Interview

Watch an Algorithm at Work

In Conversation with Jürgen Mayer H. and Tobias Nolte Jürgen, what initially sparked your interest in Tobias’ project Mine the Scrap? Jürgen: I was drawn to his complex concept, which linked new digital technologies, innovative approaches to design and, by extension, the basis of our daily work, to concrete and important thematics: How do →

Interview

The physical process of hiking the Alps

In Conversation with Bas Princen and Agnieszka Kozlowska How would you describe your working process? Bas: We have a strange relationship in the sense that there is not a lot of communication. But, when the communication is there, we try to pinpoint a couple of things that are possible routes or paths that could →

Interview

A virtual landscape of radical activism

In Conversation with Arne Vogelgesang and Eric Joris How did you both start working together on Arne’s project? Eric:  The idea was to have Arne join my team and me from CREW in a project which has some similarities to Arne’s project in terms of its technological set up. That project had to do →

Interview

Describing reality from multiple sides

In conversation with Lars Petter Hagen and Leila Albayaty What milestones or re-arrangements did you cross or experience from the beginning until today? Leila: When I presented the project at Forecast, it was very fresh and pretty much centered around my personality. I think that Lars’ way of working with me and understanding the →

New spaces and forms of presentation

The 38th International Museum Day

Every year since 1978, the International Museum Day has been drawing attention to the variety and importance of museums. On May 17, Villa Schöningen invited the former secretary of culture Michael Naumann, the architect Jürgen Mayer H., the artistic director of Forecast Freo Majer, and the journalist Peter Schiering to discuss recent developments in presenting →

Presenting Multiplicity

The Mentors' Meeting at the HKW

On May 11, the mentors met each other in person for the very first time. After touring the HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt together, they engaged in an animated discussion about the applicants, their project proposals and how to present them at the Forecast Forum. More than 360 applicants from a total →