The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Becoming, Architectures for a Planet in Transition has officially launched its Call for Participants, inviting architects, researchers, and practitioners worldwide to contribute to the congress with their insights and ideas.
Becoming represents the continuous transformation of our environments, acknowledging existing cultural and physical landscapes rather than starting from a blank slate. It promotes alternative transitions beyond the exhausted paradigms of the centrality of capitalism, fostering material, political, ecological, and poetic interrelations.
Contributions must align with one of the six key themes that define Becoming. The open call encourages submissions in diverse formats aiming to break silos between research, practice and education:
Critical Design: Submissions in this format include design projects, industrial design concepts, prototypes, and explorations of design methodologies, ranging from conceptual ideas to practical solutions and innovative approaches, both built and unbuilt.
Critical Essay: This format is for written works such as essays, academic articles, research papers, critical analyses, theoretical discussions, research findings, or transcribed interviews related to the field of design.
Critical Image: Submissions in this category include visual works such as films, photography, multimedia pieces, visual conversations, and creative or experimental work.
Learn more about the submission guidelines and requirements here.