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A curated selection of the most inspiring urban design projects of 2025, shared by designers and studios. Participation, sensory experience, and public space transformation stand at the core.

Mesh Festival 2026 is an international Festival of Art and Technology in Münchenstein, Switzerland. Under the theme Urban Actions | Spatial Utopias – Infrastructures of Care, the festival explores how digital technologies reshape public space and urban life. Through an open call, it invites artists, technologists, collectives, NGOs, and community initiatives to imagine more just, collective, and sustainable urban futures.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Archtober 2025 transforms New York City into a month-long architecture festival. Taking place across all five boroughs, it brings together over 100 institutions for exhibitions, guided tours, workshops, panels, and screenings — making October a city-wide celebration of design, community, and dialogue.

The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival reimagines sukkahs as spaces of belonging, solidarity, and hope, rooted in North Lawndale’s Black and Jewish legacy. This year’s edition features five new structures alongside workshops, food, art-making, dance, and live music. A family-friendly event, the festival fosters interfaith, multicultural collaboration and models how temporary gathering spaces can spark lasting bonds of care.

The International Antalya Architecture Biennale (IABA), Turkey’s first and only international architecture biennale, will be held for the fifth time in November 2025. With the theme “In-Between,” IABA 4.5 reflects on transitions shaped by the pandemic while reopening dialogue on architecture and the city. Alongside the main exhibition, an Open Call invites diverse contributions from across the world.