What is your position as a designer, thinker or maker in a world full of uncertainty? During the Rotterdam Architecture Month you will be given the stage: share your vision in words, images or ideas and become part of a growing installation and conversation. Grab that pen, pitch your project or send in your mini poster – and help build the future of spatial design practices.

As a follow-up to ‘it’s 2025, now what?’ Deltametropolis Association is teaming up with Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst during Rotterdam Architecture Month, to continue the conversation. This time, you’ll be given the stage! This is an open call, to scribble, sketch or write what position and attitude shapes your work. Your input will contribute to a public installation and evening discussion.

During the last session it’s 2025, now what? with Lesia Topolnyk, Nikos Katsikis, Irene Luque Martín and Floris Alkemade, one insight stood out: designers must rethink their roles and position to face today’s uncertainties and tomorrow’s challenges. Now it’s your turn.

What do you stand for?

Join the next step in this ongoing conversation and share your position. Are you an activist, designer, technocrat, mediator, steward, thinker or something in between? What challenges do we face in holding our positions, and how far can we take responsibility for our actions: financially, socially, culturally, bureaucratically?

Assignment

Got a pen close by? If you would draw what you stand for, what would that look like?

Deltametropolis Association invites you to help shape this conversation and be part of a growing public installation, during the Rotterdam Architecture Month and summer. Download your miniposter and let your creativity flow! The inputs received will be collected to raise attention for this theme, that will eventually lead to a collective manifesto on the future of spatial practices.

Email your scribbles to oploop@deltametropool.nl

During the event selected submissions will be invited to present their work, alongside own projects of Deltametropolis Association, in an open setting designed for dialogue and exchange. This is a space to share knowledge, spark ideas, and ask questions. Come explore the installation, engage with the works on display, and reflect together on Rotterdam Architecture Month.

Can’t attend the event? No problem, all posters are welcome, which will be exhibited as part of a growing installation throughout the month.

Is your idea too valuable for just the miniposter? Join the open call!

Alongside the miniposter, an open call is launched for project proposals, visionary ideas and sharp statements that explore new ways of thinking about space, design, and planning.

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