FORECAST 10: FORUM PARTICIPANTS AND DATES ANNOUNCED

The six international mentors of Forecast’s tenth anniversary edition have each selected three projects for the Forecast Forum in July, where all eighteen nominated ideas will be unveiled.

Out of over 1,000 applications from 120 countries, the mentors of Forecast’s 2025–26 edition have each identified three projects that they will accompany from April until the Forecast Forum in July. The projects are nominated for a one-on-one mentorship with the respective mentor and will be presented during the Forecast Forum’s public days, from July 18–20, 2025, at Radialsystem in Berlin.

Following the Forum, each mentor will select one mentee. Those six projects will be further accompanied to completion, and unveiled at the Forecast Festival in March 2026 at the same venue.

The mentors and their nominees in each category are:

Reclaiming the Self
Mentor: designer and artist Hussein Chalayan
Nominees: Mirte Bogaert (Belgium/Norway), Kihako Narisawa (Japan), and Yotam Peled (Hungary/Israel)

Don’t Overthink It
Mentor: vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener
Nominees: Ibrahim Babayev (Azerbaijan), María Gabriela Rubio Hernández (Colombia), and Aga Ujma (Poland)

Opera: Uprooted, Upended, Unhinged
Mentor: performer and theater-maker Lulu Obermayer
Nominees: Deepika Arwind (India), Milena Cestao Kolbowski (Germany/Spain), and Wojciech Rybicki (Poland)

Emotional Technologies
Mentor: artist and filmmaker Ruth Patir
Nominees: Ebrahim Alipoor (Iran), Diane Cescutti (France), and Andrea Guizar (Mexico)

Image, Sound, Collaboration
Mentor: video and installation artist James Richards
Nominees: Siri Black (Sweden/UK), Bethan Hughes (Germany/UK), and TaeHwan Jeon (South Korea)

Locked Timbre
Mentor: electronic musician Sote
Nominees: Nurah Farahat (Egypt), Corin Ileto (Australia), and Nicholas Morrish (UK)

For information on the individual projects, go to Nominees.

Experience the 18 proposals at the Forecast Forum 10 from July 18–20, 2025 at Radialsystem, Berlin.