This international open call brings together emerging artists from Türkiye and the UK to explore public space through the lens of climate change. The residency programme focuses on collective production, public interventions, and interdisciplinary collaboration, encouraging new ways of imagining cities and shared environments.

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.

SoftPower is a spatial installation created in France that transforms the imagery of sandbags into a soft, circular structure made of air-filled forms. The project explores themes of protection, vulnerability, and soft power, suggesting culture and silence as alternative forms of defense. Positioned within a context shaped by cultural influence, SoftPower reflects on how art can function as a quiet yet resilient form of protection.