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16 Jan 2026 Translator magazine - pitches for 'Street Talk'

16 Jan 2026 Journals of Love & Literature - ‘Metamorphosis’

Note on deadlines: Mid Feb (print), rolling/accepted all year round (digital)

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTMoizqiXCe/

18 Jan 2026 Call for pitches - Next City

Nonprofit news organisation. Pay: $100-$400

Next City publishes reported solutions-oriented news stories written by journalists as well as op-eds written by practitioners and researchers in the fields we cover. These include urban policy, planning, housing, homelessness, inclusive finance, economic development, transportation, infrastructure, tech, design, environmental sustainability, arts, placemaking, public health, safety, philanthropy and nonprofits.

21 Jan 2026 Call for lecture proposals - The Last Tuesday Society

Calling all authors, experts, scholars and enthusiasts! The Last Tuesday Society hosts a weekly Monday night series of weird and wonderful talks. Interested in giving a lecture in our most curious venue?

Must be available to host the lecture at our location in London.

Email for submission attached in the Instagram post.

26 Jan 2026 Crypt Gallery (St Pancras, London) Residency 2026

Residency for 9 - 20 Feb 2026

The Crypt Gallery Residency is a chance to do research, use the space as a resource, test out work, write, use as a creative space.

26 Jan 2026 It’s Freezing in LA! - ‘Power’

articles, reviews, interviews and creative writing on the theme of POWER as it relates to climate and the environment

Fee: £130

26 Jan 2026 Arts of the Working Class - ‘Transformers’ - Open call for proposals 2026 editorial cycle

For the 2026 issues, Energy, Organisms, Global Players, and Ancient Battles, we seek submissions for a section dedicated to work that helps expand our editorial sensibilities.

Deadlines vary, please see website.

26 Jan 2026 New Architecture Writers 2026 cohort

Deadline: 10am GMT, 26 Jan 2026

27 Jan 2026 Plastic Prognosticate - Writing the Posthuman Present: Art, Speculation, and the Aesthetics of Prediction

Paid opportunity

30 Jan 2026 CFP: CLARA 13 | Architecture has a soil problem

PDF of open call: https://clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/107

31 Jan 2026 Curriers’ Essay Prize - The London Journal

Prize: £1000

https://www.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize

31 Jan 2026 The Modernist - P (Public)

the modernist specialises in books, stationery, homeware, artworks and prints related to twentieth century and modernist architecture and design.

31 Jan 2026 Zone Zine - Issue 5 Open call

NB: Submission fee applies, apply at your own discretion. €10 or €35, please check the webpage carefully.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTv2zyjiJuH/

31 Jan 2026 Avery Review Essay Prize

01 Feb 2026 Azad Archives - 'Archive of connection'

The Archive of Connection is a zine featuring writing and visual artwork that reflects on the theme of connection. Connection to self, heritage, spirituality, neighbors—the things that make us not alone.

This work will be used in a physical zine. We welcome visual art, poetry, short fiction, and essays.

Website: azadarchives.com

02 Feb 2026 Playground Magazine - Issue 5 Open call

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTfKM4dDOdV/

02 Feb 2026 Poli Edit Issue 01 - The Architecture of Anger

06 Feb 2026 Era Journal Issue 22

UCL student run magazine, should be of interest to current students.

06 Feb 2026 make online - Open call for presentations

We welcome proposals for presentations of 10 minutes or less that incorporate a wide range of content exploring different aspects of artistic and educational practice.

We are particularly interested in:

  • Experimental approaches to teaching and making art that you may have developed and incorporated into your practice
  • Demonstrations of a variety of skills, ideas, resources and approaches that focus on the development of material literacy and making practices in art education
  • Work or research that advocates for the intrinsic value of art as a vital component of education

https://form.typeform.com/to/FLRqdBNN

07 Feb 2026 Mayflies - Oral history research collective meeting at the MayDay Rooms, London

Mayflies is a new, peer-to-peer oral history research collective, who will meet at the MayDay Rooms, London. The group is for 18-30 year olds who can commit to twice-monthly meetings on Tuesday - Thursday nights, 6-8pm.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mkZBUg-zBPRGFd4W_NJK8zLyxqEwH3lZ698eXPV7LtY

08 Feb 2026 Somersault Magazine - Issue 2 Open Call

Open to all creative work (photography, design, visual art, essays, articles, music, fashion etc.)

11 Feb 2026 CFP: SAVA Conference on Solidarity with Nature: Envisioning the Ecological Heritage of World Socialism

Sainsbury Art Centre, University of East Anglia, May 21–22, 2026 (Norwich, UK)

11 Feb 2026 Jardin Zine - Liminality

13 Feb 2026 Call for pitches: Current Affairs Magazine (Politics, culture)

Paid opportunity, $250 for digital, $350 for print

14 Feb 2026 Call for contributions: Practices in Research #07 - Un-Disclosed - Architecture in Practice

Exposing the Dirty Documents, the Controverses and the Confession, the Back-site of Design Processes in Architecture

https://www.architectureinpractice.eu/sites/default/files/documents/PiR07%20Call%2020260122.pdf

Architecture in Practice In Practice is an interuniversity research group inviting practising architects to engage their practice(s) at the heart of their research.

In Practice is a joint initiative of the Faculties of Architecture at KU Leuven, ULiège, ULB, UAntwerpen en UCLouvainerences, lectures, publications, educational and research projects, etc. In Practice is a joint initiative of the Faculties of Architecture at KU Leuven, ULiège, ULB, UAntwerpen en UCLouvain.

15 Feb 2026 CFP: IPHS 2026 Conference @ Georgia Tech - ‘Crossroads’

Call for Abstracts IPHS 2026 Atlanta, Georgia July 19-23, 2026

15 Feb 2026 OffBeat Art Club - Art/Film

folk art, outsider art, folk-adjacent work, landscape, portraiture, sculpture, craft to performance

15 Feb 2026 CFP: SACRPH 2026 / The 21st National Conference on Planning History

15–18 October 2026, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

https://www.aasa-arch.org/post/call-for-papers—–sacrph-2026—the-21st-national-conference-on-planning-history-15-18-october-20 https://www.online.uc.edu

15 Feb 2026 imperfect index - Volume 03 Open Call

imperfect index is a publication exploring what a diverse and inclusive approach to the discipline of graphic design can look like. We would like to hear from people who wish to contribute to this conversation with examples of projects and practices in graphic design. The index is a resource that will contain these intersectional ideas, that can be cross-referenced and provide multiple points for sharing and circulation. • Text: word document (.doc / .docx) • Images: jpeg / 300dpi / cmyk • Links to audio / video / social media / website

Open call brief: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16x0Z8fIw-8_WD0-mUIs_aVtDCurmaRNz/view

15 Feb 2026 'Archives of Trauma' - Open call - Photography exhibition - Women’s Photo Festival

NB: Submission fee of 20 EUR applies. Please read carefully and apply at your own discretion.

We invite artists and photographers to submit projects for Archives of Trauma, an exhibition exploring the many forms, layers, and interpretations of trauma—personal, historical, social, environmental, or otherwise.

16 Feb 2026 CFP: Symposium on Artistic Research in Analog Practices – Sustainable Body

NB: Participation fee applies (? unsure if presenters can participate for free) Please read carefully. Submission is free.

11–12 April 2026 The Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki, Finland

Two-day symposium focusing on analog photography and moving image practice. It will be held in the Process Space at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, during the weekend 11.–12.4.2026. The symposium will also take place on an online platform and streamed to the participants in real time.

20 Feb 2026 Tubelight Magazine - Issue #133 - ‘Rage/Razernij’

For this edition of Tubelight, we’re inviting writers, thinkers, and artists to express their rage! We’re looking for reviews, essays, or experimental texts that explore the theme from different perspectives. Think of art born out of rage, art about rage, and rage about art. Or are you angry about something and want to vent?

https://www.tubelight.nl

20 Feb 2026 CFP: Session @ RGS London: Geographies of Concealment: Temporary Urban Barriers of Masking, Covering, and Hiding

Royal Geographical Society, London 1-4 September 2026

This panel focuses on barriers as affective infrastructural tools (Bosworth, 2023; Henderson, 2008) that physically, visually, and behaviorally establish a temporary relation of masking, covering, or hiding space in the city. Through varying materialities, opacities, and scales, barriers impose a vertical limit that redirects movement, interrupts sightlines, and reshapes everyday spatial politics.

21 Feb 2026 ŠUM Journal - #27 & #28 - ‘Cults’

Paid opportunity (300 EUR)

This open call investigates how the figure of the cult allows us to think more rigorously about the formation, transmission, and normalization of belief. How do minimal collectives produce epistemological shifts that later appear as naturalized worldviews? What does the cult reveal about the memetic power of ideas, their infectious capacity, and the conditions under which they become dominant?

We invite contributions that engage with conspiracy / occultism as a historical, aesthetic, political, and epistemological structure—prior to, during, or beyond the moment of total contagion—and that examine its role in shaping contemporary culture and its possible futures.

23 Feb 2026 CFP: ACH (Association for computers and the humanities) Conference 2026: Emergence/ia

Virtual conference, 24-26 June 2026

Papers accepted in EN, ES

ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both “emergence” and “emergency.” This dual meaning serves as our starting point. While emergence/ia speaks to growth, connection, and creation, emergency/ia signals moments of urgency that demand care, response, and transformation. ACH 2026 seeks to ask: What forms of knowledge creation in the digital humanities (broadly defined) are emerging from pressing challenges across the Americas? How do digital humanists respond to emergencies through knowledge creation, while being mindful of ramifications of computing for environmental crises? What insights do themes of transnationalism and solidarity reveal across the Americas about our work and communities, and the role of emerging technology in shaping both?

23 Feb 2026 The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2026/27

26 Feb 2026 Funding: Research Revival Fund

Research Revival is an experimental fund restoring neglected, illegible, or prematurely dismissed research to active circulation.

26 Feb 2026 Architectural Writing Residency - Porteous Studio, Edinburgh, Scotland

We are inviting applications for a one-week Architectural Writing Residency, hosted at Porteous Studio in collaboration with Izat Arundell.

This residency offers a space for focused, reflective writing on architecture in Scotland.

Participants are invited to explore a topic of their choice — whether critical, personal, historical, or speculative — within the architectural field.

Over the course of one week, selected residents will have the time and space to step away from the demands of daily life and focus on developing their ideas.

Each resident’s writing will be published alongside fellow participants in an annual publication, helping to contribute to a growing body of contemporary architectural thought rooted in Scotland.

27 Feb 2026 Flash No. 48: When Archives Meet AI

NB: ICA members only, please do check through the full call carefully in the link.

The next issue of Flash, ICA’s biannual digital magazine, will turn the spotlight on ”When Archives Meet AI: Ethics, Sustainability, and Professional Responsibility.“ We invite contributions that examine how the archival field can approach AI with thoughtfulness, critical insight, and professional responsibility. Perspectives from different regions, professional contexts, and levels of digitisation are key to shaping a truly global and meaningful conversation.

28 Feb 2026 Perspectives Journal no. 6 - Summer 2026

Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy

We’re looking for long-form (1,500–5,000 words) research and analysis exploring political economy, theory, policy issues, and historical narratives — with a focus on strategies to dismantle systems of oppression, build just movements, and advance an egalitarian economy.

28 Feb 2026 Curationist - Editorial feature essay open call

histories, narratives, and art of global cultures across time

28 Feb 2026 Ephemere Photo Journal - ‘Triplicities’

https://www.ephemere.tokyo/open-calls/print-journal-volume-2

01 Mar 2026 CFP: International conference - The Evolution of Artistic Representations of Marginalized Identities in the Americas (19th–21st centuries): Ruptures and/or Continuities?

25–27 November 2026, University of Lille

The aim of this conference is to take stock of current research on the evolution of representations and imaginaries of identity and alterity in/of the Americas, as well as the power dynamics they entail, through artistic and cultural practices and productions, and to lay the foundations for the creation of an international research network in this field.

Papers accepted in EN, FR, ES.

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Open access book: Fumetti, spazio e architettura/Comics, Space, and Architecture

Call for book chapter for Comics, Space, and Architecture: Theory, Analysis, and Applications.

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Building Identities: Character in Architecture and Beyond

International Conference, Zurich, 2-4 September 2026

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Vesper Journal no. 15 - Détournement

Vesper is a six-monthly, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, multidisciplinary and bilingual (Italian and English).

Sections: Project / Essay / Journey / Archive / Ring / Tutorial / Translation / Fundamentals / Tale

02 Mar 2026 Get Rid of Meaning: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing #4

We are looking for experimental essays and non-fiction between 1-3,000 words from 5-7 contributors total, who will receive a £150 honorarium each.

02 Mar 2026 Simulacrum Magazine - Open Call #34.3: Little man, what now?

Call file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wnlwZe-wmbol6c27smirqzdywno7aaP7/view?usp=drivesdk

02 Mar 2026 Kairos Spring Residency: Reworlding with Tim Waterman

29 April – 5 May, Selgars Mill, Uffculme, Cullompton, Devon

Join us for the first Kairos residency: six days of talks and discussion, walks and contemplation, community-building, rejuvenation and fun.

02 Mar 2026 Call for proposals: Residencies and workshops at The Writers’ Room, Wild Pansy Press

Call PDF: https://writersroom.org.uk/files/downloadable_information_for_Residency_final_text_v3.pdf

03 Mar 2026 CFP: Situated Imaginaries and Imaginaries of Urban Futures Conference, University of Cambridge

Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 17 July 2026.

A conference exploring how situated imaginations and imaginaries are formed, contested, and translated across politics and space towards urban futures.

05 Mar 2026 Workshop: Editor Wannabes’ Club - Qilu Criticism

Delving into the affective dimension of editorial labour within contemporary art discourse, this workshop is organised around a collective lexicon-making exercise. In response to prompts prepared by Qilu, participants will discuss their experiences of editorial work: Is the impulse to ‘edit’ driven by a sense of dissatisfaction? What makes editing an invigorating process, and at what point does that same energy become exhausting? How could editorial work embrace doubt and uncertainty, when the editorial gesture so often implies the necessity of resolution? What does an alternative form of editing – one that allows space for uncertainty, questions, vulnerability, and differences – look like?

Through these conversations, participants will identify key terms and write up lexical entries that capture the nuances of editorial practice. These entries will form the foundation of the Lexicon of Editor Wannabes. Initial entries will be drafted during the workshop, and the project will continue through a process of collective writing, editing, and revision in the following weeks, culminating in a work-in-progress presentation in May.

06 Mar 2026 CFP: Design and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Plural, and Situated Perspectives

Academic journal Base Diseño e Innovación, School of Design, Universidad del Desarrollo Manuscripts accepted in EN / ES

CFP PDF: https://revistas.udd.cl/index.php/BDI/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/33

06 Mar 2026 CFP: Enabling Boundaries: Rethinking Spatial Categories, Epistemic Challenges, and Transformative Design Practices

Oldenburg, Germany Symposium date: June 6, 2026

We invite contributions from practitioners, critics and researchers from the design disciplines such as urban design and planning, architecture, landscape and environmental design, but also from scholars in philosophy, sociology, geography, media philosophy, political science, etc. To foster debate and exchange, we are planning a one-day on-site workshop on June 5, 2026 in Oldenburg (with Zoom option). Limited funding to cover travel expenses is available. The workshop is part of the “Rurban Design Lab” research project, which belongs to the “4N” research network.

06 Mar 2026 CFP: SAHANZ-AUHPH 2026, 7-9 December 2026, Melbourne, Australia

This conference invites contributions that explore the echoes within the void: to engage with the idea of absence in the built and designed environment in all its myriad forms and machinations: absences of people, structures, places, ideas, or representation, by design, neglect, or by force.

06 Mar 2026 Ellipses Journal - 'Corrosive spatial practice'

Link to open call PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pzFGhxK0eF9KRtgnPFdIoyo_bF7vEbFv/view

06 Mar 2026 London Festival of Architecture - Open call for Festival activity

Submission fee is waived for activities proposed by individuals.

https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/2026-key-dates/

06 Mar 2026 The Hajar Book of Waves - Hajar Press

We’re seeking submissions from writers of colour of short pieces of writing for The Hajar Book of Waves, the second volume in our elements anthology series.

This Water-themed book will explore the waves that carry, connect, renew and shape us: the ebb and flow of history in a non-linear continuum, a call-and-response between the past and the future; the gushing surges of empathy and feeling that move and enliven us; the fluid psycho-spiritual processes that help us adapt and change; the cycles of action and reflection that keep our organising alive; the mass movement of people in protest and migration; and the irrepressible force of the cosmos guiding the earthly tide. We’re interested in writing that engages with waves as both material and metaphor—flowing and flooding, soothing and overwhelming, refreshing and eroding; the rhythms and repetitions of perpetual back-and-forth motion; the power of water refusing to stagnate.

We’re now open for submissions of short stories, poetry, essays and everything in between showing radical imagination, creative experimentation and sharp political engagement with the world around us.

08 Mar 2026 Call for participants for the Emerging Critics Project 2026: Queer East, London

We are excited to announce that Queer East Emerging Critics Project will return this April and May with six participants, in collaboration with Little White Lies. The project is aimed at emerging writers of all ages who have published no more than four articles on film or the arts in print or online media outlets, excluding self-publishing.

09 Mar 2026 FIELDNOTES 8th issue open call

Submission fee: £4 or free for those on low income/unwaged

Fee: between £150-£250

10 Mar 2026 CFP: The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

Deadline: varies, earliest is 10 Mar 2026

The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (PJIR) is now accepting submissions for its 2026 editions. We welcome both review and original research papers across a broad range of disciplines, including humanities studies, social sciences, and science and technology. PJIR is particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers that bridge these fields and offer fresh perspectives or innovative approaches to existing research challenges. Our goal is to showcase diverse and thought-provoking scholarship that contributes meaningfully to academic discourse.

https://www.princeton-press.com/pjir

10 Mar 2026 Incubator (Gallery, London-based): Call for exhibition proposals, early career artists

Eligible artists are those based in the UK who have had no more than three solo shows.

Form: https://airtable.com/appu7aLSLdkWYAPQF/shrE8L2ckdu4tampb

12 Mar 2026 The Journal of Architecture - This IS Architecture. Notes from the Field*

Deadline: rolling, across 2026 and into early 2027. Reviewed on a rolling basis.

In 2026, as it marks thirty years of publication, the Journal of Architecture invites contributions to ‘This IS Architecture. Notes from the Field’: concise, rigorously framed reports and reflections that document how architectural research, and research on architecture, becomes public through events and practices around the world. We seek situated writing that shows why a given event or practice is timely where it happens, how it speaks to the climate emergency and related socioeconomic and ecological crises, and in what ways it sets trajectories for research, pedagogy, policy, or practice. Rather than asking whether something is ‘architectural’, the strand asks what kinds of practices, events, and inquiries matter for the ways we inhabit and organise space. ​ A ‘Note from the Field’ is short-form and accessible, yet grounded. Authors are encouraged to write from participation or close observation, to foreground local actors and knowledges, and to articulate stakes and implications with clarity. We welcome contributions from researchers, practitioners, educators, collectives, curators, activists, policy workers, and community partners. Notes may emerge from exhibitions, installations, design studios, field schools, research projects, public programmes, policy processes, activist work, or situations where architectural knowledge – including that which emerges outside conventional boundaries of the discipline – is produced, contested or mobilised.

15 Mar 2026 Symposium: Time to Listen – Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound

Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg, 26–27 June 2026

We invite artists, curators, and researchers to propose sessions they would like to lead during the symposium on 26–27 June. Sessions are 45 minutes long, and the format is open: it can range from lectures, project presentations, workshops, sound walks, listening sessions, to guided improvisations. We are seeking contributions that engage with the theme of Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound.

15 Mar 2026 CFP: Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Learning, Spatial Design, and Participatory Pedagogies Within Institutions and Beyond

Dates: 3–5 September 2026 Location: London, UK

https://www.the-lsa.org/call-for-abstracts-learningsunlearnings-conference/ https://caravanize.nu/learnings-unlearnings-2026/call-for-abstracts/

15 Mar 2026 CFP: The Self at Scale - Workshop @ ICI Berlin, Bard College Berlin

Autotheory, autofiction, and related genres, such as auto-sociobiography or mythobiography show the interplay between theorizations of personal life, subjectivity and historical or collective experience. This workshop explores the history of these forms, and is interested in their genealogies, as well as in the politics and aesthetics of subjectivity, especially in the moments when these practices have intensified.

15 Mar 2026 Profiles Journal - Issue 5

Profiles is an independent literary and vis-arts journal dedicated to character studies and portraiture.

Past submission guidelines: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/624c28fcf3108409095879c1/t/67b38af8532c6d3e9c67dcf9/1739819769278/submission-guidelines-issue4-writing-standard.pdf

15 Mar 2026 CFP: Maps and the Imagination - Special Issue, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography

By exploring the map-imagination nexus, this issue engages questions ranging from the practical to the philosophical: What do maps do for acts of creativity, and conversely, what does the imagination want from maps? How do maps help making and knowing imagined selves and communities? How does the image, rhetoric, and materiality of maps influence creative practices, be it for imagining social and political contexts, or for texts creating compelling stories ranging from classic epics and romance fiction to fantasy novels and climate fiction? How do methods and theories of historical cartography and forms of imagined thinking complement each other? How have the materiality and technology of mapmaking informed imagined subjects and subjectivities, and conversely how do expressions of the imagination allow us to rethink the nature of maps?

16 Mar 2026 Grant: Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship 2026 (US citizens/residents only)

NB: US citizens/residents only

This fellowship is for arts writers, defined as journalists, critics, and cultural commentators who analyze, contextualize, and interpret the arts for public audiences. Arts writing includes criticism, reviews, essays, opinion pieces, and other forms of nonfiction writing about art, artists, cultural institutions, and creative movements.

Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowships will be awarded to two (2) emerging writers of color, each of whom receive a $5,000 award to be spent over a six-month period.

The awards are unrestricted. Funds may be used for any purpose that helps the fellows advance their careers, including paying themselves to write.

16 Mar 2026 CFP: Making Ecologies: Craft, Material, and Situated Practice

How do materials, environments, and traditions shape the way we make?

Making Ecologies is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring how craft and material practices engage with ecological, cultural, and situated ways of making.

We invite scholars, researchers, artists, designers, conservators, and practitioners to respond to themes including: • Material Ecologies • Craft Assemblages • Situated Practices

17 Mar 2026 Scholarship: The Albert Dawson Educational Trust RCA MRes Scholarship

18 Mar 2026 Community Author role - Museum of the Home, Hoxton, London

Paid opportunity

Project: to co-create a framework with the Museum for object disposals from areas of the Museum’s collection and apply this framework in community group sessions. Why: The Museum wants to be more collaborative in how we approach the management and care of the collection. Who are the Community Authors: People with knowledge, passion and interest in East London with different skills and experiences from Museum staff.

  • Money: we will offer £75 for every session you attend
  • How often: The meetings will take place during the day on weekdays (meeting approximately 14 times over one year).
  • Opportunities: to work with the Museum’s collections, to change how we approach disposals, and to collaborate with community groups Outcome: To co-create a blueprint for disposals and action the blueprint in community rationalisation sessions. This framework will become part of the Museum’s policies.

23 Mar 2026 CFP: Journal of Architectural Education - 80:1-2 - The Future of Architectural Education

This double issue of the Journal of Architectural Education will celebrate the core mission of the JAE: advancing architectural education through thoughtful analysis, critique, and reflection. We are calling for papers, projects, and articles that address the future of architectural education. This comes at a critical moment. Higher education faces many challenges, including declining domestic and international student enrollments, eroding public support, rising economic uncertainty, and increasing student debt. At the same time, architectural education confronts a number of related concerns, such as reduced student demand, challenges to equity and sustainability efforts, expanded support for alternative paths to licensure, shifting expectations on the part of students, and rapid advances in disruptive technologies affecting the profession and the building industry.

23 Mar 2026 Funding: SURF doctoral funding - Keele University (UK)

Sustainable Rural Futures - Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme

23 Mar 2026 Funding: Urban Urgencies, USF (Urban Studies Foundation)

Up to 6 grants of up to £35,000 each

The Urban Studies Foundation (USF) is pleased to launch a new research funding initiative to seed-fund collaborative primary research proposals that engage with the theme Urban Urgencies. Up to six innovative projects will be awarded up to GBP £35,000 each. Project activities should begin within nine months of the application deadline, and are expected to last up to eighteen months. All proposals should be clearly situated and relevant to the broader academic field of urban studies, and their contribution to scholarly debate and dialogue in this field should be compelling and timely. Proposals must also be based upon an active partnership with at least one non-academic organisation.

24 Mar 2026 North Kensington Social Justice Archive - Drop-in events

Help us design the North Kensington Social Justice Archive at North Kensington Library.

The archive will document over 150 years of local campaigns and community organising, and we’re now gathering feedback on early designs for the space.

Come through to see proposals developed by @jankatteinarch and share your thoughts with us.

North Kensington Library (ground floor) Session 1: 21 March, 12:00–3:00pm Session 2: 24 March, 5:30–7:30pm

No need to book - just drop in.

24 Mar 2026 Journal of Design History - Call for submissions for Explorations

Explorations editors accept proposals for reflective writing pieces, interviews, position papers, meditations, practitioner statements, educator statements, letters, reflections on methods, among other formats. Submissions can be visually led, include videos, audio files and other media-based material. They should be 1,500–4,000 in length (excluding endnotes) and do not have a prescribed number of images. Explorations pieces are published in the Journal of Design History’s webpages on the Oxford University Press website. Contributions have their own DOI, are published as advanced articles, and are associated to a specific issue of the journal.

Explorations

As design gains significance in the major debates around our past, present, and future, the Explorations section of the Journal of Design History seeks to nurture innovative, experimental, and creative interventions in researching and writing about design and its histories. The Explorations section aims to:

  • Support experimentation with new or alternative forms of scholarly communication, collaborative writing and/or interdisciplinarity.
  • Extend the JDH’s authorship and readership base, supporting early career researchers, emerging and future scholarship.
  • Diversify research dissemination and promote timely responses to key debates.

24 Mar 2026 Journal of Design History - Call for proposals for Virtual Special Issues

The Journal of Design History is seeking proposals for Virtual Special Issues (VSIs). These are selections of previously published articles, prefaced with an introduction by the editor. Examples of previous VSIs are available at https://academic.oup.com/jdh/pages/virtual_special_issues.

26 Mar 2026 Open call for photography (exhibition) - Entanglement, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin, July/August 2026

Selected artists will take part in a group exhibition at B-Part Exhibition, the gallery curated by loop in the heart of Berlin in July / August 2026.

“Entanglement” invites artists to explore the intricate webs of connections that define contemporary experience. From the most intimate human relationships to the vast systems shaping our planet, existence unfolds through networks of dependency, influence, and mutual transformation.

26 Mar 2026 Open call for pieces: Diaspora, Lineage, and Memory

How do we honor the roots we’ve carried across oceans, and the ones that grew in the cracks of a new land?

This is an open invitation to the Asian diaspora—for the parents who carried their traditions in suitcases, and the children blooming in the light of those shared stories. Whether you are preserving an ancient ritual or creating a new family language, we want to see the vitality of your journey.

We invite artists from across generations to explore the vibrant ”interstices“ of Asian migrant life—the beautiful space between what was brought over and what is being born anew.

Focus: Family lineage, rituals across borders, and living memory.

Medium: Open to all (Visual, Text, Sound, etc.)

26 Mar 2026 2026 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentships, for October 2026 start

27 Mar 2026 SGSAH Research Showcase, Glasgow, Scotland

Are you a doctoral researcher in Arts & Humanities in Scotland?

Here’s an opportunity to share your work, connect with the Arts & Humanities community, and bring your research to life — with up to £1000 in funding to support how you present it.

The SGSAH Research Showcase 2026 takes place 24–25 June in Glasgow as part of our Summer School.

27 Mar 2026 CFP: Colonial Hinter-Seas: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary

August 2026, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

29 Mar 2026 Call for all sections: Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism - Issue 7

Accepted formats: Research papers (original and unpublished research papers), Works (Short informative articles on works carried out in the fields of building, architecture and urbanism), Reflections (Short essays on theory and practice of traditional building, architecture and urbanism, as well as on their teaching, their preservation and their continuation), or Book Reviews.

30 Mar 2026 CFP: Book - Ecofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures

We invite original scholarly contributions that investigate drama and performance as sites where ecofeminist thought is materially embodied, dramaturgically enacted, and politically reimagined. Particular attention will be given to chapters engaging contemporary theatre and performance and articulating how ecofeminism is transformed through theatrical aesthetics, performance politics, and formal innovation.

30 Mar 2026 Call for submissions: Vector Festival 2026 - Who Cares for the Cyborg?

9–19 July 2026, Toronto, ON, Canada

Vector Festival is an experimental media arts festival dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, organized and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media art practice. The festival is proud to be a participatory and community-oriented initiative organized by InterAccess in Toronto, Ontario.

30 Mar 2026 Cody Dock - Cabinet of Curiosity No.3 Artist Commission

We are looking for an artist, collective or group to produce a site-specific, public artwork for the final piece in our series of ‘Cabinets of Curiosity.’

31 Mar 2026 Underground Art and Design - Open call for Attention/Distraction showcase/publication/panel

Area of interests:

  • Network culture and the media environments that occupy our attention
  • Critique on contemporary spectatorship
  • Artistic interventions that disrupt and redirect attention
  • New modes of seeing and noticing

All mediums are welcome, including but not limited to:

  • (New) media art
  • Animation
  • Narrative fiction
  • Essay
  • Photography and film
  • Interactive web pieces
  • Sound art
  • Game design / virtual environments / world-building
  • Mixed / hybrid forms

Artists, writers, designers, technologists, and researchers from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.

Selected work will be invited to participate in:

  • An online publication
  • An in-person exhibition in New York
  • In-person Artist talks and panel discussions

31 Mar 2026 CFP: Thinking with Materials across Histories and Practices

The Centre for Doctoral Studies UMPRUM invites submissions for an international doctoral conference exploring materials and materiality within art historical and artistic research methodologies. The conference will take place on October 1–2, 2026 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, with the possibility of online participation.

The event focuses on historiography of material-oriented approaches, microhistories, and new perspectives on material as a starting point for artistic and theoretical inquiry. PhD students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Papers should be presented in English and not exceed 20 minutes.

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUqC9B9iCro/

31 Mar 2026 CFP: Inflection Journal Vol 13 - Detail

Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

In examining detail as a site of revelation, concealment, propagation, and as a cultural language, Inflection vol. 13 invites contributions that explore the role of detail in the built environment. We invite full paper drafts of academic pieces (up to 4,500 words), practice-related pieces (up to 1,000 words), abstract or fictional works (up to 500 words), and visual artworks that explore these themes.

31 Mar 2026 Open City Documentary Festival Fellowship Programme 2026

13 April–17 April 2026, across London

The Fellowship Programme is a daily programme of free screenings and in-depth conversations with festival filmmakers that will take place as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2026.

The programme will run from Monday 13th April to Friday 17th April, between 11am – 2pm at Close-Up Cinema. Conversations will be hosted by tutors from the Documentary & Ethnographic Film MA (UCL). Successful applicants will receive

  • Access to daily screenings and in-depth conversations with filmmakers, running from Monday 13th April to Friday 17th April at Close-Up Cinema
  • A Student Pass, allowing access to Open City Documentary Festival’s programme of talks, performances and workshops held at the Rich Mix (The Studio).
  • A certificate of completion, handed out at the final screening on Friday 17th of April.

01 Apr 2026 Essays on Craft and Disability: Ache x Common Threads Collaborative Publication

For this book-length anthology, we are publishing: Creative non-fiction (up to 2,500 words) Visual Artwork (4-6 images and up to 500 total words for captions)

We welcome visual art and writing that looks at contemporary and historic craft practices, both about/or through the lens of disability, health and care. We hope to represent a broad range of perspectives and subjects in this publication, and strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to submit.

Fee: Contributors will be paid a flat fee of £150 for work published, inclusive of each piece of prose or artwork contributed.

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DU1A4D8jb76/

03 Apr 2026 CFP: AFRAUHN (African Architectural and Urban History Network) Nairobi

8–10 September 2026 Conference run by the African Architectural & Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN), in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi, invites proposals for papers about emerging discourses and themes in African architectural and urban practices for a major international conference being held at the University of Nairobi from 8th September – 10th September 2026.

It will be the second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference, the first having taken place at the Wits School of Architecture and Planning in South Africa in July 2024. Recognizing that discourses about African architecture and urban planning are more complex than the bifurcated ‘traditional’/‘colonial’ or ‘African’/‘Western’ models which still tend to dominate the research, writing, environmental design and spatial design practices in the continent, this conference instead welcomes contributions that critically examine the status quo(s) of these models and disciplines – be that in terms of academic, practice, national institutions or regulatory bodies, or as are imagined by policy-makers in forms of urban development which are then disseminated to the public.

This second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference is organized to coincide with the inaugural Pan-African Biennale of Architecture, curated by Omar Degan and team, and which is also being held in September 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.

06 Apr 2026 Call for PhD proposals on Architecture Curation and Culture & History and Decarbonisation, TU Eindhoven

06 Apr 2026 Residency: Ecologies of Migration - Forgan Arts Centre, Fife, Scotland

There are two residency opportunities available, each taking place flexibly over 35 days across a season. One residency will span Summer (May 2026 – September 2026) and one will span Winter (October 2026 – March 2027).

Information pack: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/FAC-Ecologies-of-Migration-Residency-Pack.pdf

07 Apr 2026 CFP: Special Issue: Decoloniality in Media and Cultural Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward

International Journal of Cultural Studies

08 Apr 2026 Der Greif - Earthly Fabulations - Call for photographers

“Earthly Fabulations” launches in celebration of Earth Day 2026. We invite lens-based artists to reflect on ecology, environmental critique, and the entangled relationships between humans and the more-than-human world.

This open call encourages artists to rethink the colonial legacy of landscape photography and to consider plants, animals, and geological formations as active protagonists rather than passive subjects.

Centered on dialogue rather than competition, the initiative brings selected artists into a one-month online exhibition on Der Greif’s homepage (April 22–May 22) and small-group critique sessions through Der Greif’s educational Face-to-Face program.

Open internationally to emerging and mid-career artists. Submissions close April 8, 2026.

https://dergreif.org

10 Apr 2026 TRANS 49 - Left

Together in issue 49 we look to the left side. What is left beyond an orientation? What else is there besides the right and the straight? Leave us directions towards alternative futures and leftist visions of the past; show us the left side of a floorplan; write with your left hand; tell us sinister stories and eat up the leftovers of yesterday; focus on the weaker side of yourself.

10 Apr 2026 Everything is Political - call for articles

We encourage contributors to get a feel for our tone, voice, and politics by reading through some previously published pieces — we’re drawn to writing that’s grounded, critical, imaginative, and in conversation with liberation movements and lived experiences.

We prioritize stories that move beyond the problem. Your piece should offer not only information or critique, but possibility. Show us resistance, collective action, and the solutions people are building together.

(Honorarium included)

15 Apr 2026 Call for pitches: Fuller Project

Deadline: Rolling with monthly themes - this month is Money; Water; Pleasure/desire

https://www.fullerproject.org

Fuller is a global newsroom producing award-winning, impactful reporting on issues that shape the lives of women and gender-diverse people.

We prioritize in-depth, original journalism that spotlights systems of oppression and holds the powerful to account; well-told stories that have the potential to shape the news agenda, catalyze change or start conversation. At the same time, we intend to use our deep expertise and global networks to find solutions and connect the dots between gender and the challenges we collectively face.

We bring stories from around the world to audiences primarily based in the US and Europe and we’re seeking pitches from storytellers who know how to connect those audiences to the lived experiences of people often far away; showing why it matters and equipping them to act.

Some of the recent work we’re proudest of: photo essays, investigative features, explainers and constructive stories.

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Liquid, Solid and Gaseous: Remembering Through and With Water

24–25 June 2026, King’s College London LAHP-funded, hybrid conference

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Bodies and climate : transcorporeal affects of weathering

13 November 2026, Site Saint-Charles, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

This research day aims at investigating how transcorporeal weathering is evoked, imagined, respresented in literature, the visual arts, the cinema and the performative arts. Tempests, storms, floods as well as droughts have long captured human imagination. The apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic imaginaries have been fuelled by real disasters and an increasing awareness of our entangled vulnerabilities. The possibility of a new sublime triggered by the unimaginable scale of pollution, depletion, meltdown, extinctions has been debated. Emily Brady has showed how a humbling sublime may emerge from new human and non-human relationalities.

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Elemental Ecologies: Art Histories of Situatedness and Drift from the Great Acceleration

International seminar - Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome, October 28-30, 2026

What models might art historians adopt for acknowledging both the locatedness of artistic practices and their deep entanglement with planetary systems? What are the possibilities and the limits for the discipline when thinking through humanity’s impact on the Earth’s elemental components? How do the material histories of drift, movement, and transformation coexist with histories of belonging and situatedness?

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Design Anthropology: Designing for Radical Alternative Futures - Special Issue of Design and Culture Journal

How can design anthropology contribute to addressing the contemporary polycrisis and the shaping of social transformation and radical alternative futures at scale?

This special issue explores the potential of design anthropology as a transdisciplinary, interventional, future-oriented research field committed to co-creating socio-cultural change and fostering sustainable and just worlds. It asks how design anthropology can mobilize localized knowledge, cultivate collaborative approaches, and employ imaginative speculation to confront interconnected global challenges and envision larger-scale alternative futures, and it examines how it does and might do so.

15 Apr 2026 The Contrapuntal: Call for pitches. Post-panoptics: Embodied Surveillance & The Architectures of Control

We welcome pitches from:

  • investigative and long-form journalists — particularly those based in or reporting from the Netherlands and the wider Benelux region,
  • academics and researchers in surveillance studies, STS, critical data studies, human geography, border and disability studies, legal theory, and media studies, who can write for a non-specialist audience without sacrificing rigour;
  • artists and multimedia practitioners working with photography, documentary video, installation, data visualization, illustration, comics, or hybrid forms.
  • Artistic contributions carry the same editorial weight and commission terms as written work; and multimedia journalist-artists whose practice moves across text, image, and interactive media.

We do not require institutional affiliation.

19 Apr 2026 Slant’d (AAPI Literary magazine) - Issue 08 - Wild

Issue 08 of our literary magazine, we invite you to explore the WILD: those untamed spaces where we stop following the script and start following our intuition.

We’re seeking personal essays, poetry, photography, and art that capture the radical bravery of venturing off the beaten path—from the physical adrenaline of travel to the quiet liberation of going against convention.

“Wild” is more than a destination; it’s the spiritual awakening that redefines your North Star and the roar of self discovery that comes when you embrace your most vibrant self. Whether you’re reconnecting with the earth or diving head first into the uncharted wilderness of your own life, we want to hear your stories.

We’re seeking original creative non-fiction (personal essays), poetry, art, and photography. No “writer” title required. If you have a good story, we’ll help you bring it to life.

20 Apr 2026 Runway Journal - Issue 51 - Translation

We are excited to announce that submissions are open for Issue 51: Translation.

Translation demands deep reading and attentive listening. It moves ideas across writing, speech, silence, image, and movement, and sits within an embodied practice of empathy, vigilance, and decisiveness.

The power of translators to colour how ideas are expressed and exploited opens up endless opportunities for new betrayals and violence. The wrong language can trick ethnic parents into thinking you are doing well at school, has caused contestants to lose the Miss Universe crown, validated colonial theft, and encouraged individuals to make devastating health decisions for themselves.

We invite you to send in pitches on the many aspects and outcomes of good, bad and mediocre translations.

(Paid opportunity: $800 AUD + superannuation)

20 Apr 2026 ERA journal - call for artists (UCL student-run magazine)

Deadline: 20 April 2026

Era returns to the Crypt Gallery, below St Pancras New Church, NW1 2BA

Opening 16 May

20 Apr 2026 Call for External Editors: PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden)

PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden) is an online international artistic research publishing platform based in The Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. PARSE publishes open access research and organises events which facilitate dialogue, publication and open peer review. Our multidisciplinary content aims to address academics, artists and art audiences who are curious about the contribution of research to the arts, and the contribution of the arts to knowledge-making. As an exclusively digital platform, our purpose is to foster, publish and archive research across international contexts. PARSE aims for an openness towards content and format and provides resources to experiment with these in the editorial process. PARSE is run by a small working group who are interested in developing and learning through working with external editors.

PARSE invites submissions for external editors to propose content for a journal issue. Two proposals will be selected, one to be published in Autumn 2027 and one in Spring 2028. We are looking for proposals which collapse clear subject and disciplinary distinctions and demonstrate a desire to allow different knowledge forms to meet. We wish to work with editors who think of publishing not only as a form of dissemination but as a process through which forms of writing as well as themes are experimented with. We invite interested applicants to look through previous PARSE issues as well as our guidelines on article format, as the working group is particularly interested in proposals that expand the thematic reach of the journal and put forward article formats which contribute to the development of the field of artistic research.

20 Apr 2026 Assemble - North East fellowship open call

Open to North East of England-based practitioners, 12 months, June 2026–June 2027 £7,740 fee; £5,280 production budget

D6 is looking to host a Fellowship open to Artists, Curators and cultural practitioners with lived experience of enforced migration, displacement or exile. This is open to practitioners based in the North East of England, seeking to (re)build their international curatorial practice and networks.

Funded by the Arts Council England, this opportunity enables a UK artist to join a Europe-wide cohort of artists and partners.

The ASSEMBLE Fellowship in the UK is one of four taking place across the programme. Other ASSEMBLE Fellows will be based in Cyprus, Spain and Ukraine.

Over 12 months, each Fellow will produce a new curatorial project responding to climate emergency with the option to consider how it intersects with conflict, displacement and ecological decline.

The Fellows will also engage in an international programme of activities offering immersive experiences for new knowledge and best practice to be shared, including:

– three curatorial labs taking place in Cyprus, Spain and a hybrid lab from Ukraine; – one group residency in the UK; – an international conference in Morocco; – a digital exhibition promoting the three curatorial projects.

22 Apr 2026 Exhibition: Stories of Migration and Everyday Life in London

We are inviting three kinds of submissions:

  1. Artists - Works related to mobility, migration, identity, and movement (lightweight / small-scale works preferred)
  2. Public submissions - Photos and short stories about living in the UK — moving house, commuting, working, staying temporarily, or hesitating between staying and leaving
  3. Scholars / researchers -Recommendations of migration-related papers, archives, books, zines, and theoretical texts

23 Apr 2026 Paloma Magazine Issue 28 - Fault Lines

We invite work that investigates structures under pressure—architectural, collective, personal. We’re interested in fractures beyond anticipation, whether catastrophic rupture or quiet creep. Stress / strain / shear in the material and beyond. Think seismic design, strained infrastructure, interrupted syntax, cracks. Until april 23rd, send us pieces that map what is reshaped by its faults.

23 Apr 2026 Call for case studies - International Archives Week (8–12 June 2026), Archives for Justice

NB: ICA members only

As part of International Archives Week 2026 (8–12 June 2026), the International Council on Archives (ICA) invites its members to submit proposals for case studies aligned with this year’s theme: #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory & Futures.

This is your opportunity to showcase innovative practices, highlight challenges, and share lessons learned from archival initiatives that advance justice, human rights, and memory.

Case studies are detailed presentations of real-world archival projects or initiatives, demonstrating practical applications, ethical considerations, and societal impact. Presentations should last ten (10) minutes, followed by five (5) minutes for audience discussion. They provide a platform to share experiences, inspire peers, and contribute to the global discourse on archives and justice.

25 Apr 2026 CFP: Heritage, identities, memories - II International Conference of Studies on Photography, Universidad de San Andrés

Humanities Department, Universidad de San Andrés Buenos Aires, October 21 to 23, 2026

Abstracts accepted in ES, EN, FR, PT.

The Program in Photography and Visual Arts Studies (Centro Materia-IIAC, UNTREF) invites submissions for the second International Conference on Photography Studies, “Heritage, Identities, Memories,” to be held in October 2026 in Buenos Aires. The conference is intended as a space for critical reflection on the specificity of the photographic medium, its artistic relevance, its theoretical and historical methodologies, its materiality, and its particular agency as a device of representation.

CFP EN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQbhVAW9Rj4OTG9ZjNtqkkhNN9VfPUhI/view CFP ES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L_jcJDZfNMVAb3_vmAXi7LM0QAtupVY5/view CFP FR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_YVDekGSMQCxkAvGBTYdZF281hQCCxKY/view

30 Apr 2026 The Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal

To encourage emerging scholars that are based in the UK, ARTES, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, awards an annual essay medal to the author of the best art-historical essay or study on a Hispanic theme, which must be submitted in competition and judged by a reading Sub-Committee. The medal is named after Juan Facundo Riaño (1829-1901), the distinguished art historian who was partly responsible for a growing interest in Spanish culture in late nineteenth-century Britain. The winner is also awarded a cash prize of £400, and the runner-up is awarded a certificate and prize of £100 – both prizes are generously sponsored by the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain. Prize-winners also receive a year’s free membership to ARTES, and the winning essays are considered for publication in the annual visual arts issue of Hispanic Research Journal. See the information about eligibility and rules of competition. The deadline is 30th April 2026, and we aim to reach a decision by 31st May.

30 Apr 2026 Funding: ARTES CEEH Scholarships

ARTES, the UK’s Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group Various: travel scholarships; £3000 scholarship for PhD students at UK universities; £3000 scholarship for PhD students or post-doctoral scholars who wish to conduct research in the UK.

Thanks to the generous support of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica https://www.ceeh.es/), ARTES awards a number of scholarships to students working on any aspect of Spanish visual culture before 1900. The deadline for all applications is 30th April 2026 and the Scholarship Committee will inform successful applicants by 31st May. Scholarship winners are normally invited to an awards ceremony at the ARTES AGM in June.

01 May 2026 CFP: DHS Student Conference, 12-13 June 2026: EPHEMERAL ENCOUNTERS

  • What role does ephemera play in the practice of design history?
  • How can we approach the question of ephemerality when thinking about sustainability in the face of the climate crisis and political turmoil?
  • How can archives, museums, and historical repositories work to preserve spaces, objects, skills, memories, traditions, and cultures for the future?
  • What can design history do to preserve fleeting encounters? How do design historians negotiate the ephemerality of user experience?
  • As design historians, how do we come to terms with these uncertainties, do we simply attempt to preserve and share these histories, or do we attempt to find new methods of engaging with these histories that might help us face contemporary issues?

We welcome papers and other creative responses which fit with an online format, such as audio/ visual work or creative ways of presenting (in-conversation papers, interviews etc.), engaging with design history and the themes of ephemera, ephemerality and ephemeral encounters. Students and recent graduates from diverse backgrounds are all encouraged to present their work.

01 May 2026 Institute of Machine Unlearning - Love in the Times of Surveillance Capitalism

Many aspects of everyday life now pass through algorithmic infrastructures: mapping services, archives, apps, datasets, and platforms that continuously record and process information. While these systems are designed for data extraction and analysis, they sometimes unintentionally capture moments of our relationships.

This open call invites small traces of affection, care, grief, or memory that have become embedded in digital systems.

Send your tender moments, stories, fragments, screenshots, poems or images from the edge of the machine documenting moments where human relationships become entangled with algorithmic infrastructures. From apps and datasets to archives, platforms, or automated imagery.

The collected materials will be assembled into a collectively authored zine.

01 May 2026 CFP: 13th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society - Geography Matters

27-28 November 2026. Athens, Greece

Modern Geography encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects, interacting with the natural, social, and human sciences, as well as with applied sciences and spatial planning. The 13th Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society (HGS), titled Geography Matters, and co-organised with the Harokopio University of Athens, aims to highlight the richness and diversity of Geography, placing special emphasis on bridging different approaches and interconnecting scientific boundaries.

In an era of significant changes and uncertainty, major challenges - such as the climate crisis, humanitarian disasters and intensification of social inequalities, and geopolitical tensions and authoritarianism in governance - necessitate innovative, interdisciplinary and multiscalar inquiries.

01 May 2026 Antennae Journal #69 - Impossible Archives

This issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, co-edited by Giovanni Aloi and Cristina Baldacci, invites submissions that think creatively about archives of all kinds, especially those entangled with nature, ecology, the more-than-human, and the visual cultures that surround them. In part inspired by Baldacci’s book Archivi Impossibili (2016), the issue is interested not only in archives that preserve, protect, and classify, but also in those that resist and challenge boundaries, hierarchies and order: archives that are fragmentary, speculative, excessive, illegible, ephemeral, sensorial, living, or deliberately “impossible”, since they undermine the idea of archives of modern origin. What happens when the archive is no longer a guarantee of truth but a contested field, one shaped by extraction, erasure, environmental transformation, and competing claims to belonging?

01 May 2026 Funding: Anna Polke Foundation Research Scholarships

Two scholarships of €5,000 each available.

The Anna Polke Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of two scholarships of €5,000 each. Supported research projects include those by scholars in the field of art history or related disciplines that reevaluate aspects of Sigmar Polke’s oeuvre from a relevant contemporary perspective.

01 May 2026 CFP: CLARA #14: Uncertainties

Clara is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods, and tools specific to the field. Each issue comprises a main thematic section proposed by guest editors, and two additional sections: Archives, with articles based on the exploration of archival documents, and Position(s), with articles that take a stance on current developments or events in architecture.

Full call PDF: https://clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/109

04 May 2026 Log 67

Summer 2026 Honorarium offered

Log 67 is an open issue on the state of the world today. All submissions are welcome; timely submissions on new architecture and current events are preferred.

Submit by Monday, May 4. Submissions should be between 250 and 4,000 words.

04 May 2026 Error 417 – Project funding (Error 406)

Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on. The internet is broken, but was it ever whole? We invite artists, curators and collectives from around the world to propose projects that take a clear-eyed view of the past, while exploring how internet histories can open pathways toward more equitable futures. This open call asks: what protocols, networks, archives and shared conditions are needed to build the internet we actually want? Respond to netstalgia with error 406 not acceptable.

The funding program Error 406 Not Acceptable supports open processes and risky art projects through an annual open call. Each edition highlights a different urgent topic, setting the focus on a condition that is Not Acceptable.

The call for projects is aimed at artists worldwide, collectives, curators, arts initiatives, exhibition spaces, online platforms, and developers of software and hardware — basically anyone exploring the possibilities of contemporary, networked technologies as art and their significance for society.

04 May 2026 Experimental Fellowship 2026 - Experimental Foundation + Bauhaus Earth

The Experimental Fellowship with Bauhaus Earth supports emerging international practitioners and cross-disciplinary teams developing regenerative, circular, and climate-conscious solutions, aiming to contribute to a transformative shift in the building sector.

The Fellowship focuses on practice-based research, regenerative material practices, and turning experimentation into actionable, sustainable architecture solutions. Fellows work with the Experimental Foundation and Bauhaus Earth teams to develop prototypes, test materials, and contribute to wider systemic change in the built environment.

Fellows receive financial support, mentorship, technical guidance, and access to a global network of research and industry partners. Funding includes a monthly stipend plus project-related costs up to €30,000.

08 May 2026 STUDIO 404: ‘Touch Grass’ - Call for workshop facilitators

4 June 2026, 6pm–9pm, Hackney, London

STUDIO 404 (www.studio404.world) is a non-profit social enterprise founded by the teams behind Creative Debuts and Other Box. We create community-led cultural spaces and immersive programmes, exhibitions, and events that prioritise real-world connection.

We’re inviting artists, facilitators, and creative practitioners to host drop-in workshops as part of our next show: TOUCH GRASS.

TOUCH GRASS explores the creative energy of being outside. Shaped by public space, street culture, nature, and our “OFFLINE BY DESIGN” ethos, the event centres presence over performance, connection over consumption, and what becomes possible when we step away from the screen.

This is a large-scale, in-person cultural gathering bringing together artists, designers, brands, and communities to create, connect, and experience work in a shared physical space.

08 May 2026 Library Mothership call for emerging bookmakers - to exhibit at art book fairs

NB: Submission fee applies (£8)

This year, Library Mothership is opening a section of our table to highlight emerging bookmakers across four international book fairs in 2026. One submission, four book fairs.

Your book will be considered for:

  • Offprint London — 15–17 May, 180 Studios, 180 Strand, London
  • A Bigger Book Fair (Peckham 24) — 15-17 May, Copeland Gallery, London
  • Biblioteka Art Book Fair — 12–13 June, The Warburg Institute, London
  • I Never Read: Art Book Fair Basel — 14–20 June, Viaduktstrasse 33, Basel

Selected publications will appear at 2–4 of these fairs based on curatorial fit.

10 May 2026 Everyone is a Girl - theme: gloss / glossolalia

We’re looking for writing that thinks through the politics of the surface and the forms of excess that the internet both produces and fails to contain. That can come from anywhere, art history, film and moving image, music criticism, cultural anthropology, sociology, new media research, critical theory, curatorial practice. Essays, auto-theory, close readings, experimental writing, hybrids, and forms that don’t have a name yet.

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXOpNrujaXS/ Submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrD2Vz80R5b7dqEDDL5kviB0PY3wATXrl8Gm4JRmABXxbzOw/viewform

10 May 2026 Funding: Imagination Practice Fund

~16 projects, up to £3000

The Imagination Practice Fund 2026 offers up to £3,000 in funding for practitioners using collective imagination to drive social change, making it a valuable opportunity for creatives, community leaders, and innovators seeking to challenge dominant narratives and build more equitable futures. Designed for individuals and groups working at the intersection of creativity, community, and systems change, this fund supports projects that use imagination as a tool for transformation.

10 May 2026 Anthropolitan magazine (UCL Dept. of Anthropology)

This year, we are inviting both written submissions and visual works that will be showcased in two streams:

Anthropolitan Print Magazine

We welcome submissions across all formats for the Anthropolitan print magazine: ethnographic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, illustration, and experimental work that defies easy categorisation. Work that sits between disciplines, genres, or registers is especially encouraged. Word count for articles should be limited to 1,500 words and should be accompanied by at least 1 visual element (in high resolution jpeg format).

Anthropolitan x The Creative Collective Picture Competition

All visual art submissions will be entered in a competition to select the cover image for this year’s Anthropolitan print. Shortlisted pictures will be showcased during the AnthroShow on June 9 2026, and selected submissions will also be exhibited in the department, framed and displayed in the coming academic year.

In this way, visual works will be able to shape the department’s visual identity and its evolving legacy. Visuals should be of good quality resolution ( 2339 x 3307 pixels per inch), ideally to be printed in A3 and A4 formats and submitted as jpeg files.

10 May 2026 CFP: Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere

Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere 10–12 June 2026 | Hybrid (online & in-person) | Charles University, Prague

This international and interdisciplinary conference invites PhD candidates and selected Master’s students to explore how historical narratives are constructed, negotiated, and debated in the contemporary public sphere. The event welcomes contributions from fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, gender studies, and related disciplines.

Key topics include memory and visual culture, national identity, heritage and urban memory, disinformation, decolonisation of history, and the politics of belonging.

The conference will be held online & in-person on June 10-12, 2026. The event is organized by the Department of East European Studies and the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center, Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.

11 May 2026 CFP: Oral History Australia 2026 Biennial Conference - Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity

3-6 December 2026

We invite papers that consider how new applications, techniques and changes in technology are being used by practitioners in planning, recording, transcribing, archiving, and sharing oral histories. Papers might consider (but are not limited to):

  • ethical considerations
  • transcription technologies
  • challenges underpinning podcasting and videography
  • the long-term storage of interviews, and the
  • potential consequences of hosting projects online.

Alternatively, we are also looking for papers that reaffirm the values that have always been inherent to oral history as a methodology necessitating human interactivity and authentic storytelling, which recognise the importance of continuing to forge connections and safeguard oral histories for the future.

14 May 2026 CFP: The Grammar of Art, Kunstlicht Vol. 47, no 3/4

What does it mean to read art—not as image, but as language? And what if language itself is unstable, embodied, coded, or even resistant to being read at all?

For our next issue of Kunstlicht, we are looking for submissions that address the historical, situated, embodied, and fractured conditions of language in art, moving between theoretical and philosophical perspectives that situate particular linguistic and cultural ruptures, and artworks that test the limits of language as a tool.

15 May 2026 Funding: LRG (Landscape Research Group) Research Fund 2026

A total of £15,000 is available for the 2026 Research Fund. Applicants may request between £1,000 and £5,000.

The Research Fund supports innovative projects that deepen understanding of landscape and contribute to more equitable, sustainable relationships between people, place and environment.

This year, the Research Fund invites proposals that develop interdisciplinary, innovative, and methodologically advanced approaches to understanding landscape change across scales, ranging from planetary systems to intimate, lived environments, encompassing humans, non-humans, and more-than-human relations in more equitable ways.

15 May 2026 Docomomo US - Call for articles: Recreation & Play

Docomomo US invites submissions for a 2026 special edition focused on Recreation & Play – the mid-twentieth-century sites where communities gathered for leisure, movement, social life, and joy.

This edition will examine parks, plazas, skate spaces, swimming pools, playgrounds, amusement sites, and recreational landscapes built between 1949 and 1969, with particular attention to informal use, cultural practices, and histories of access, exclusion, and belonging. Contributions may address architectural, landscape, social, artistic, or cultural dimensions of recreation and play.

We welcome submissions from scholars, practitioners, preservationists, students, artists, and community members.

15 May 2026 CFP: Photography’s Material Conditions: Residue, Object(hood) and Practices in the Expanded Field

8th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2026) Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, 26-28 November, 2026

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations from various disciplines, such as: photography, art history and theory, visual sociology, anthropology, museology, philosophy, ethnography, education, cultural studies, and visual and media studies. To propose a paper, please submit a 450-word abstract (including references) through our online submission system, no later than: May 15th, 2026

15 May 2026 CFP: Drawing from Territory - Research and practices in art, science and technology

International Conference 23rd - 25th November 2026 Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

Abstracts accepted in EN, ES, PT

Drawing from territory is an international artistic and scientific conference held within the framework of the XXIV International Biennial of Art of Cerveira, with the support of research centres from the University of Porto: the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS), the Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), and the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment (CITTA).

Rooted in the border territory of Vila Nova de Cerveira, in northern Portugal, and Galicia, the initiative proposes a discussion of pressing territorial issues, with particular attention to border regions as spaces of negotiation, permeability, exchange, and tension.

Drawing from territory invites artists, scientists, professionals from STEM fields, as well as researchers from all areas of knowledge, to engage with Drawing as a broad and transversal discipline, capable of articulating research and praxis across different domains.

15 May 2026 CFP: Warburg, Malraux, Picasso: Album, Atlas, Archive

Aby Warburg, André Malraux and Pablo Picasso were fascinated in their lifetime by the persistence and metamorphoses of images and the inheritance of world art. Today, Malraux’s musée imaginaire or ‘museum without walls’ extends to the virtual universe of images. Throughout 2026 events are taking place internationally to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Malraux, the adventurer, writer and first French Minister of Culture. The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study and the Courtauld Institute, University of London, together with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, are celebrating this occasion with a conference to be held on 4-5 December, 2026.

Warburg and Malraux expert Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS, Paris) is a confirmed speaker.

Subjects might include:

  • Aby Warburg as precursor
  • Cultural restitution and the global ‘museum without walls’
  • Re-readings from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory
  • The global culture of image circulation
  • Focussed studies, such as Picasso’s exchanges with Malraux, commemorated in Malraux’s La tête d’obsidienne, 1974 (Picasso’s Mask, 1976)
  • Contemporary responses by artists such as Dennis Adams or Goshka Macuga

Papers should aim at 15-20 minutes for delivery, in English, with further time for questions.

Conference dates: 4-5 December 2026

Locations: The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, and the Courtauld Institute, University of London.

15 May 2026 Lip Service Issue #6 - Vagina Museum (Zine)

What does it mean to read art—not as image, but as language? And what if language itself is unstable, embodied, coded, or even resistant to being read at all?

For our next issue of Kunstlicht, we are looking for submissions that address the historical, situated, embodied, and fractured conditions of language in art, moving between theoretical and philosophical perspectives that situate particular linguistic and cultural ruptures, and artworks that test the limits of language as a tool.

Spreading knowledge and raising awareness of the gynaecological anatomy and health

  • Giving confidence to people to talk about issues surrounding the gynaecological anatomy
  • Erasing the stigma around the body and gynaecological anatomy
  • Acting as a forum for feminism, women’s rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community
  • Challenging heteronormative and cisnormative behaviour
  • Promoting intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values

16 May 2026 Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, UK

The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Girton College thanks to the vision and generous support of Una Ryan. The Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re-imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and to experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries.

The one-year Fellowship will begin in October 2026 and end in October 2027. It includes a residency period in Cambridge, typically of at least six months up to one year. Exact dates of the residency period are flexible and will be agreed with the selected artist.

The Fellowship is financially supported:

  • A stipend of 10,000 GBP(£) will be paid to the successful candidate. This amount includes all taxes and is a contribution towards the artist’s living costs and expenses
  • Rent-free accommodation and meals will be provided at Girton College during the residency period in Cambridge
  • A production budget of 10,000 GBP(£) will be made available to support the development of new work
  • A travel budget of up to 3,000 GBP(£) depending on where the artist is based, will be available to support the cost of travel to/from Cambridge during the Fellowship

17 May 2026 futurejuice - call for writing proposals: Automation Bias

We invite critical, experimental, and hybrid responses to automation bias, across essays, fiction, interviews, and poetic forms.

Seeking work that moves beyond baseline AI critique to trace deeper links between technology, culture, identity, and older systems of control; and that explores automation as psychological, social, and behavioural, not just technical.

https://tally.so/r/2EbDPj

18 May 2026 CFP: Society for Visual Anthropology Visual Research Conference (VRC) 2026

November 16-18, 2026, St. Louis, MO, USA

The VRC provides an opportunity for professionals and students to dialogue about visually engaged works-in-progress in 40-minute presentation slots. Conventionally there are no specific themes to follow for general submissions, though we are most interested in new ideas and projects under development in the study of visual signification, visual communication, and visual forms of representation, and/or utilizing visual media (photo, film, web, polymedia, intermedia, multimodal media).

18 May 2026 Call for sessions, roundtables & papers: SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) Virtual Conference 2026

24–26 September, 2026 — Online conference via Zoom

The Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to submit a session or paper proposal for its virtual conference—SAH Virtual 2026—that will be held from Thursday, September 24, to Saturday, September 26, 2026.

The purpose of SAH Virtual 2026 is to share and discuss research in architectural history and related disciplines that cover every period in the history of architecture and all aspects of the built environment. In addition to architectural historians, we seek submissions from allied and adjacent disciplines including (but not limited to) architecture, landscape, urban history, art history, design, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, environmental studies, etc. The guiding principle for SAH Virtual 2026 is inter-disciplinary sharing and collaboration. We hope this will be an opportunity for people from any discipline who are interested in the history of the built environment to participate in a meaningful exchange of ideas.

18 May 2026 the modernist Issue 58 - PLASTIC

For our Autumn 2026 issue, we are taking on PLASTIC. Plastic permeates our lives today, largely as a legacy of its mind-blowing expansion in production and application throughout the twentieth century. We invite articles that respond to the ambiguities of twentieth-century ideas and attitudes towards PLASTIC - from the engineering, design and architectural ambitions enabled by innovative new uses; to failed attempts to harness it for purposes it could never fulfil. We are interested in how the promise of a utopian, shrink-wrapped future soured amid a growing environmental consciousness.

24 May 2026 Mozilla Festival - Call for Proposals

Recinte Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain. 28–30 October

This year’s theme is Wilding—It is a provocation: what happens when we loosen rigid systems and create the conditions for communities and technologies to evolve collectively, naturally, intuitively?

Inspired by ecological practices of rewilding, where gardens and forests are left to regenerate through their own intelligence, this theme explores what it means to let our digital worlds grow wilder, more diverse, and more alive. It means community-owned mesh networks, federated platforms, open protocols, community archives and tools built on transparency, trust and mutual flourishing.

We are inviting you to take this theme and submit a proposal for a session or experience that shows how your work can help us all embrace Wilding—to restore balance, and cultivate infrastructures rooted in care, mutuality, and collective action.

We’re looking for submissions across 8 unique community tracks, from builders, technologists, artists and community organizers, all inspired by the theme: Wilding.

25 May 2026 Another Gaze Journal - Call for writing

https://www.anothergaze.com

Another Gaze, founded in 2016, is a journal of film and feminisms. Our aim is to publish writing that engages in thoughtful and rigorous ways with film culture, past and present. We have historically focused on feminist approaches to film criticism, and remain committed to that project while also broadening our scope to address wider questions of cinema and politics.

Once a printed journal, we now aim to publish three issues a year online. We feature longform essays and criticism, sometimes experimental in nature…

Another Gaze is particularly interested in:

  • Writing that takes the temperature of the current moment
  • Well-researched essays about a filmmaker (to be understood as anyone involved in the making of a film) or filmmaking collective
  • Essays on recent restorations that provide historical context
  • Commentary/critique on festivals/other parts of the industry apparatus
  • Longform book reviews

We are still unfunded. We work on pieces over the course of months and several drafts. Payment ranges from 150 – 400 GBP, depending on word count.

25 May 2026 CFP: Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams

Photography Research Group, University of Brighton Photoworks Festival

Photoworks and the Photography Research Group at the University of Brighton are co-organising a conference as part of the upcoming edition of Photoworks Festival.

The theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams will explore geographical, psychological and metaphysical flows and connections of life, culture, and the environment.

This call for papers invites responses to the fragile and current states of personal and collective geographies. Through photography practices and perspectives on photography, we seek to address anxieties and fractured realities, opening speculative spaces of care, resistance, and reimagining.

The conference will take place on Friday 2 October 2026 at the University of Brighton, School of Art and Media, City Campus, and aims to support development of new research locating photography within various fields of study.

These include ecological entanglements and cosmotechnics, geological and technological anxieties, looking at how histories, identities, futures and place are interconnected.

This area of research includes Art in the Age of Anxiety, (2021) edited by Omar Kholeif; Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene, (2021) edited by Yuk Hui and Pieter Lemmens; Ways of Being, (2022) by James Bridle, and Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI by Victor Burgin (2025).

26 May 2026 CRASSH Summer Research Placement

Help us put together a history of how and why CRASSH was founded 25 years ago, its evolution, and how it has impacted research at Cambridge and beyond.

We are looking for a PhD student or a postdoc to lead this project, which will involve conducting informal interviews with a range of people who have interacted with CRASSH over the years, hunting down important information in School and University records, and drafting a narrative of around 1500-2000 words.

Training in historical methods and/or journalistic experience may be an advantage, but we will consider all applicants who can persuade us that they have excellent writing skills, an eye for detail, and the confidence to interview very senior figures in and beyond the University.

You will need to work independently but in consultation with the management team at CRASSH.

26 May 2026 The Toe Rag - October 2026 issue - FICTIONS

Theme: FICTIONS

The Toe Rag publishes formally ambitious non-fiction, fiction, poetry and artworks. The magazine is concerned with contemporary culture, particularly visual art, performance, politics, philosophy and literature. We favour work that is intellectually rigorous and stylistically controlled. We recommend reading past writing in the magazine before submitting.

We accept proposals of up to 300 words and full essays of up to 3,000 words. Proposals should clearly indicate structure, content and intended word count and must be accompanied by at least one writing sample, published or unpublished. For poetry, please do not send more than five poems. For fiction, we accept stories of up to 4,000 words. For arts and book reviews, please send an expression of interest with a writing sample.

31 May 2026 CFP: Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning Bengaluru, India Conference dates: 29-31 January 2026

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning invites you to the International Conference on Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives (INCET 2027)

Tourism today goes beyond economics—shaping culture, ecology, infrastructure, and human experience. INCET 2027 brings together academia, practice, and policy to explore sustainable, inclusive, and design-led tourism futures.

31 May 2026 CFP: Vision and Veiling: Photographic Resilience and Sociopolitical Change

Photography Network Virtual Symposium, Nov 5–7, 2026

Photography practitioners, historians, and curators respond in a multitude of ways to political and cultural contexts that challenge their work. Moreover, in response to efforts to remove, omit, occlude, obscure, or manipulate, photographs often persist, transform, and recirculate, reformulating visual worlds. Photographs bear a complex relationship to political and social power; authorities might manipulate or remove photographs to further their goals, but forms of covering up, self-censorship, or self-fashioning might also function in the name of individual privacy, safety, or resistance. Furthermore, as the material capabilities and limitations of photography shift, new questions continually emerge about the role of photographic removal and photographic resilience in constricting cultural climates.

This symposium offers a platform for scholarship that investigates the adaptability of photography and photo history in the face of constraints, be them cultural, governmental, institutional, editorial, individual, or otherwise. What do historians, curators, and photographers do when limitations are placed on their work, and what do the limitations themselves reveal about photography? Relatedly, when is restriction, refusal, or withdrawal protective, strategic, or empowering? Finally, what, if anything, has changed about how the medium navigates social or cultural boundaries—what can we learn from how practitioners have done this in the past that might shed light on present-day questions? We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, and we especially encourage international scholars to submit.

31 May 2026 CFP: The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

ASRI Journal, special issue 31

This volume of ASRI Journal. Art and Society invites academics and visual artists, at any stage of their career, to contribute research and practices that explore the epistemic and ontological relationships and differences between the agency of AI-generated images and the agency of art images, as well as the role of artistic practice in critiquing and visualising the socio-technological conditions of visual culture in the age of GenAI.

Submission details (ES): https://revistaasri.com/about/submissions Submission details (EN): https://calenda.org/1346638

31 May 2026 Exhibition: GALLERY44 - The House Has a Body

Gallery44 is inviting submissions for an intimate autumn exhibition in London.

The House Has a Body considers domestic space not as a backdrop, but as something charged: a place where bodies, objects, surfaces and histories leave traces.

We are interested in practices exploring the body, memory, domestic space, objects, architecture, interiors, thresholds, textiles and material traces.

Artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, object-making, textile, photography and moving image are invited to send material.

Submission email in the Instagram post linked.

01 Jun 2026 Funded PhD project: Critical Heritage Stories, Communities, and Technologies: Eastney Engine Houses and the Past, Present, and Future of Industrial Heritage Museums

October 2026 start, Portsmouth City Council and the University of Southampton

The Portsmouth City Council and the University of Southampton are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship starting 1 October 2026 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.

This practice-based research project will examine the past, present, and future of industrial heritage museums through a case study of Eastney Engine Houses, in dialogue with Portsmouth Museums’ local and social history collections.

This project will be jointly supervised by Bruce Doswell (Eastney Engineer) and Katy Ball (Curator of Social History), Portsmouth City Council, and Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé, Dr Alexandra Anikina, and Dr Dimitra Gkitsa in the department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. The student will be expected to spend time at both Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and Portsmouth City Council as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK. The student will also be embedded in the activity of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group.

01 Jun 2026 CFP: Thresholds 55: Property

MIT Department of Architecture Journal Thresholds 55: Property

Property: a thing, often material, that is possessed. Property: an aspect or attribute of that thing.

While seemingly concrete, the concept of property is frequently fragmentary, contingent, and ephemeral, premised in an array of theoretical descriptions. Property is constructed through social relationships and defined through reciprocal accord. These social dynamics highlight the proximity of property to power through its delimitation of rights to access, possession, and exclusion. Ideas of property have been foundational in both western and non-western frameworks of culture and law, implicated in understandings of individual autonomy, rights, and the economy. From the enclosure of land to its representation in painting, from waqf funds to development mechanisms to environmental protection, to labor, protest, and repatriation, imaginaries of property have shaped art and architecture through history and across geographies. Thresholds 55 invites scholarly writing, criticism, and artistic interventions that interrogate these interactions.

02 Jun 2026 Funding: RIBA Research Fund

The fund is here to support independent architectural research at any stage of your career, whether it be in UK practice or academia. It covers critical investigation into a wide range of subject matters relevant to architecture’s advancement, and connected arts and sciences.

We welcome applications to support all research topics as long as the subject matter and final outputs are relevant to the advancement of architecture and associated disciplines and professions. Applications are welcome from individuals or teams from architectural practices and academia at any stage of their research careers.

07 Jun 2026 Residency: Goethe Institut - FILE NOT FOUND

Archives, as repositories of cultural memory and knowledge, are increasingly under pressure in many countries due to populist and extremist policies. Content that challenges the narratives of these policies has been censored, reinterpreted, or deleted in some regions.

FILE NOT FOUND fosters a dialogue between various international archives, some already affected by this pressure, others operating in a grey area, and some that still feel safe.

As Germany’s international cultural institute, the Goethe‑Institut is committed to protecting cultural expression and enabling open, democratic discourse. FILE NOT FOUND reflects this mission by bringing together archives from different contexts to share experiences, raise awareness of threats to cultural memory, and jointly strengthen their resilience.

07 Jun 2026 Unknown Person/Kafedra Gallery - call for work for city noise

ZiMMT, Leipzig, Germany. Exhibition in July 2026

The contemporary city is no longer a stable architectural structure. It functions as a media interface where propaganda, advertising, wars, algorithms, control systems, and protest interventions are intertwined with screens, sound signals, and personal media environments. ​ In this open call, we are expecting works that not only reflect the overload of the contemporary city, but also make it tangible on an aesthetic and emotional level, and transform it through artistic means. ​ We are looking for your urban findings in the form of text, sound, and photo stories, as well as art video and documentary short video.

07 Jun 2026 Residency: The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature & the Arts

NB: Submission fee applies ($20.50)

Our residencies are open to writers, translators, musicians, artists (working in all mediums), actors, directors, dancers, etc., from around the world—anyone who is looking for uninterrupted time to create new creative work.

All residencies are fully funded, which means we pay for airfare and full room and board at our 17th-century villa and cultural center in Sezze Romano, Italy. We are currently offering residencies for two weeks each in the spring and fall.

Applications for our Fall 2026 residency are open.

The Fall 2026 residency will take place from September 29 to October 13, 2026. The cohort will consist of 4 to 5 creative residents.

08 Jun 2026 CFP: SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) 2027 Chicago

The Society’s 80th Annual International Conference will take place in Chicago on April 14-18, 2027.

SAH is now accepting abstracts for its 80th Annual International Conference in Chicago, Illinois, April 14–18, 2027. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 8, 2026, to one of the 54 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the Open Sessions for the Chicago conference. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters, Affiliate Groups, and partner organizations.

If your research topic is not a good fit for one of the thematic sessions, please submit your abstract to the Open Sessions.

15 Jun 2026 CFP: The International Conference on Sustainable Development 2026 - European Center of Sustainable Development

Conference dates: Wednesday, 09 September – Thursday, 10 September 2026

NB: Deadlines vary, please check the website. The deadline posted on this call is the late submission deadline on the website.

Theme: Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education

15 Jun 2026 Funding: Matthew Good Foundation Grants for Good

The Grants for Good Fund awards £60,000 of small charity funding annually between twenty non-profit organisations. The applications cycle runs quarterly, meaning every three months, we will share £15,000 between five shortlisted projects.

Grants for Good is funded by the John Good Group and is designed to direct funding only to small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment. To be eligible for our small charity funding, applicants must:

  • Be a UK-based local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise
  • Have an annual income of less than £50,000.
  • ⁠Have a bank account in the organisation’s name.

16 Jun 2026 TOKAS (Tokyo Arts and Space) Residencies - Various

Residencies available:

  • International Creator Residency Program For international creators
  • Curator Residency Program For international curators
  • Research Residency Program For international/Japan-based creators

The “International Creator Residency Program” is a 3-month residency program for creators working in the fields of visual arts, design and architecture. We offer financial support to allow creators to develop and present new works and ideas in Tokyo.

The “Curator Residency Program” aims to invite distinguished and highly motivated curators in the fields of curation, art criticism and cultural research from overseas, and offer them opportunities to conduct research in Tokyo with financial support. (For international curators)

The “Research Residency Program” provides opportunities to conduct research on arts and culture in Tokyo, targeting both international and local creators in a wide range of fields.

How to apply: Download the “Outline” and “Application Package” from TOKAS website and apply via the Online Submission Form

17 Jun 2026 Architecture at the Edge Festival 2026: Le Chéile – the Architectures of Belonging

Applications for allowances of up to €2,500 accepted for travel, venue rental, honorariums, and production cost for events

Together (Le Chéile) we will invite architects, designers and other creatives to develop and present speculative or research-based projects addressing democracy, spatial justice, and participation through film, exhibition, public workshops and/or lectures.

To suggest new ways of practicing democracy – and how the involvement of local communities in democratic processes of decision-making (through participatory processes) can contribute to further foster the sense of belonging to a democratic society, and further increase their participation in democratic life.

We encourage applicants to interpret the brief as openly as possible. We are seeking proposals which investigate the various facets of how to create inclusive spaces that encourage people to engage in dialogue and civic life and highlight the spaces of citizenship, belonging and Identity. We need to design for everyone, regardless of economic status, and provide tools and environments that enable citizens to shape their own communities.

Brief PDF: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599afaeb03596e31f5e6f0bf/t/6a10aca29c2c6110ba4a6a9c/1779477666052/Open+Call+Projects+2026+-+Architecture+at+the+Edge+2026.pdf

21 Jun 2026 CFP: Model and the Reactor: AI as and against Environmental Media

Abstracts accepted in EN, ES, PT

This special issue questions the imbrication of AI and digital sovereignty at work in new articulations of technological nationalism (Charland, 1986; Couture & Toupin, 2019; Grohmann & Costa Barbosa, 2025; Medina, 2011). Theories of the digital sublime and charismatic technologies have long been used to legitimate technologies as social blueprints (Ames, 2019; Carey & Quirk, 1970; Mosco, 2004), but AI arrives at a moment of critical duress for social epistemologies usually found in journalism seem incapable or unable to counter the sociotechnical futures produced by big AI (Bareis & Katzenbach, 2021; Dandurand et al., 2023; Liebig et al., 2024; Valderrama Barragán et al., 2025). We encourage contributions that unite fragmented scholarship as a counterpoint to Big Tech’s global, competitive cyberphysical project (Lai et al., 2026; Salamanca, 2025).

21 Jun 2026 CFP: Cornell Journal of Architecture Issue 14 - Spare

The theme for the next issue of the Cornell Journal of Architecture is “Spare.” Spare exists in anticipation: of use, of need, of loss, of return. Something fails. Someone arrives. Something secondary becomes essential. A spare points to the unexpected possibilities within the present. In changing conditions, the spare—all but nominal—supersedes the original.

26 Jun 2026 CFP: Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish architectural history

There have been a growing number of studies of female architects over the past twenty years but almost no accounts of female architectural historians. One exception is Dana Arnold’s edited collection Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now (2025) which involved women operating from the 1970s onwards. This symposium looks back further to the earliest generations involved in the writing and promotion of architectural history in a wide range of spheres. We are interested in women who were involved in the subject as academics, curators, journalists, photographers, writers and in the conservation and heritage spheres from the nineteenth century onwards.

26 Jun 2026 Edited book: METHODOLOGIES FOR ACTION: A Collective Toolkit for Design Futures

An Open Call for contributions from design educators, practitioners, and researchers towards an edited book publication that catalogues how design methodologies within the architecture and allied disciplines generate knowledge and are produced, operationalized, and implemented across multi-scalar contexts.

Each submission will form a 2–4 page spread (1000 words text (max) + 3 Images (min)) in the publication, describing a methodology and its framework for action. Selected entries will be featured both in a published print book and in an open, public web-based archive.

Submission Deadline: JUNE 26th, 2026 The full edited volume is expected to be published with global distribution in 2027

The book’s editorial team is comprised of Marcella del Signore (Associate Professor, MSAUD Program Director) and Evan Shieh (Assistant Professor), New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design. For questions or further information, please contact this project-dedicated email: methodologies.project at gmail dot com

27 Jun 2026 CFP: LA+ ‘FIELD’

The word field conveys the idea of a space or place—physical, conceptual, or operational—within which relationships, forces, or activities occur. Field refers equally to perception—such as the fields of vision and sensing through which landscapes are seen and experienced—and to action, as in fieldwork from which observations build knowledge and/or which grounds theory in lived, material conditions. In scientific and cultural contexts, a field describes the networks of forces, relations, and influences operating across space and time. In educational and professional contexts, it defines what constitutes the methods and domain of a discipline. Together, these meanings establish the field as a dynamic interplay between thinking, knowing, making, and doing.

LA+ FIELD invites submissions that explore the concept of field in landscape architecture. We seek critical, theoretical, and practice-based perspectives organized around three interrelated categories: Field as Discipline, Field of Perception, and Field Work. Field as Discipline might examine landscape architecture’s intellectual, professional, and institutional terrain, including its boundaries, methods, histories, and evolution in response to environmental and social changes. Topics in Field of Perception may elucidate specific methods and techniques that shape the ways in which landscapes are sensed, experienced, interpreted, and represented. Field Work could engage material practices of observation, measurement, and intervention, including more-than-human studies, site-based experiments, and questions about relations, labor, and care. Priority will be given to abstracts that explore how two or more of these domains intersect and how they affirm or expand contemporary understandings of landscape architecture.

29 Jun 2026 Stanley Picker Fellowship in Art & Design

Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design.

Each Fellowship provides up to £16,000 and valuable access to the extensive material workshops, technical resources and expertise within Kingston School of Art and the wider University, to support a practice-based, innovative research project that will result in an exhibition of international standing at Stanley Picker Gallery.

30 Jun 2026 Forgotten Architecture

Send us a DM if you know: a forgotten or little-known piece of architecture; an architect overlooked by critics and architectural history; an ignored project by a famous architect

The call is open to everyone professionals, researchers, students, photographers, and architecture lovers.

What we ask from you:

  • all the information available (name of the author, location if any, date, etc.)
  • photographs, if you have them
  • a short caption to accompany your post on the F.A. profile

30 Jun 2026 Tractor Beam Issue 6: The Water Issue (Fiction)

For the sixth issue of Tractor Beam, we’re looking for stories about the role of water in soil, growth, land, and ecosystems large and small. We are specifically seeking anti-apocalyptic visions that explore the future of water in farming and food production, island ecologies, hybrid sea-soil technologies, the people who move water and the people water moves. Stories about drought, diaspora, and what gets carried downstream.

Tractor Beam pays $1,000.00 for all accepted submissions. We prefer stories under 6,000 words and comics between 12-16 panels. Submissions close June 30th.

30 Jun 2026 Call for Forums – Space, Urban Studies, Cityscapes, and Virtual/Digital Spaces

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies

4 x CFPs for the volume:

  • Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes: https://ellids.com/announcements/mapping-body-space-continuum-in-urbanscapes/
  • Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality: https://ellids.com/announcements/power-in-urbanscapes-rethinking-spatiality-and-sociality/
  • Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience: https://ellids.com/announcements/planned-unplanned-and-the-in-between-interactions-of-architecture-space-and-experience/
  • Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience: https://ellids.com/announcements/embodied-spaces-digital-reconfigurations-of-experience/

30 Jun 2026 Rotlicht Festival for Analog Photography - Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities

NB: Submission fee applies (€20)

Our main exhibition in 2026 will again take place on the impressive premises of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. On over 1300 m2 we will open the festival with our 20 winners from the Open Call 2026.

The theme of this year’s festival is »Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities« and your submission should be at least marginally related to this theme.

Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities

The Anthropocene – often described as the age of humankind – names an epoch in which human activity decisively shapes the Earth’s ecological and geological systems. Yet this narrative of dominance may itself be a construct.Ideas of control, progress, and technological mastery stand in tension with a world increasingly defined by instability, complexity, and fragility.

Analog photography inherently challenges this paradigm of control. It is grounded in light, chemistry, time, and contingency. Imperfection, material presence, and process are not flaws but fundamental qualities of the medium. With the theme Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities, the festival invites artists to critically and poetically explore the relationship between human, nature, and image — between intervention and dissolution, influence and vulnerability, construction and decay.

Humanity consumes resources as if they were unlimited, reshapes landscapes, replaces ecosystems with artificial environments, and is increasingly described as a geological force in its own right. How can photography respond to this condition? What hybrid realities emerge between the natural and the constructed, the organic and the synthetic, the real and the staged?

We welcome submissions that engage with these tensions and expand the discourse through experimental, critical, and process-oriented approaches in analog photography.

01 Jul 2026 Call for work - 7th Small File Media Festival

The seventh Small File Media Festival is open for submissions! Artists, activists, media pirates, rogue technologists, and filmmakers: this is your call-out. An all-out intervention to save the world one pixel at a time.

We challenge media makers to intervene in the 4K dystopia of bandwidth imperialism by creating original small-file movies in any genre. This year we especially welcome narrative and documentary alongside our usual arthouse, glitch, punk, and sci-fi.

The frictionless ease of online video hides the environmental damage and surveillant objectives of networked digital media. Small Files are an alternative to these dopamine-poisoning channels; an indiscreet, tactical medium capable of circumventing the dystopic structures of bandwidth imperialism.

If you’ve made it, you can submit it, as long as it’s no more than 1.44MB per minute. If your work is only ten seconds long, that’s only 144KB!

01 Jul 2026 CFP: Pleasure as the Aim of Art? The Place of Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century European Art Theory and Practice

University of Lausanne, Nov 26–28, 2026

Abstracts accepted in EN, FR

Considering both creation and reception, this conference proposes to examine the various facets of artistic pleasure in seventeenth-century Europe. The perspectives developed may invite a broader reconsideration of the complex place of pleasure in early modern thought on art, its potential role in the construction of a system of the arts (Du Bos and especially Batteux) and in the development of eighteenth-century aesthetics (Baumgarten, Burke, Kant). Often regarded as secondary, pleasure may thus be reinvested with genuine heuristic value, both for analysing past discourses and practices and for reflecting on our own ways of apprehending, engaging with and even studying works of art in the broadest sense.

15 Jul 2026 CFP: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm

PNCA 2026 Symposium: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm. Oct 1-3, 2026

What happens to art, authorship, and presence when AI enters the creative process?

We invite proposals from artists, writers, and scholars interested in questions like:

  • Can AI-generated art possess aura?
  • What becomes of authorship, originality, and artistic presence today?
  • How is aura produced, performed, or gamified online?
  • What new forms of creativity emerge through human–machine collaboration?

FORMAT: We are accepting proposals for individual papers (15–20 minutes). Research, creative practice, and community-based work are all welcome. Graduate & advanced undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit. You don’t need all the answers—just a strong question to explore.

https://pnca.willamette.edu/culture/symposium

31 Jul 2026 Postdoc: British Council UK 90th Anniversary Fellowship 2027

The British Council celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2024. We are delighted to announce a research partnership between the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh and the British Council.

We are awarding up to two 12-month Fellowships starting in January 2027 – open to postdoctoral researchers based in any ODA-recipient country where the British Council operates (see list of countries on page 139 of their Annual Report or the list below).

Fellows will spend the first ten months of their Fellowships at IASH, followed by up to two months based in their home countries focused on knowledge exchange and dissemination in collaboration with the British Council.

31 Jul 2026 Funding: Hugo Burge Foundation 2026 Grant Programme

Applications opening on 1 June 2026

The Hugo Burge Foundation is a major new arts funding body. In 2025, its first full year, we distributed £400,000 of grant funding to individuals, communities and organisations across the United Kingdom.

Our grant funding is focused on three key areas: Creative Education, Creative Communities, and Creative Individuals.

31 Jul 2026 CRASSH Exhibition: Knowledge in a Fractured World

Artists and creatives are invited to submit works to CRASSH’s 25th anniversary exhibition, which takes place from 5 October – 11 December 2026 at the Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP.

The theme of the anniversary programme and exhibition is ‘Knowledge in a Fractured World’.

The programme will examine how knowledge is produced, contested, and translated into action amid political polarisation, technological disruption, environmental crisis, and shifting global power relations.

For the exhibition, the theme can be interpreted in the widest sense – from personal to global.

01 Aug 2026 Hilltop Literary magazine - Vol. 2 The RESURGENCE

Hilltop is a London-based independent literary magazine dedicated to building a platform and community for writers across the city. Our aim is to champion creativity, honesty, and vulnerability, without compromising hope.

We are currently accepting submissions for Hilltop Vol. 2: The RESURGENCE Issue. For this issue, we encourage our contributors to explore the theme of resurgence in its many forms. Growth after dormancy, revival after stagnation, beginning again or regaining momentum. We invite you to share your unique perspective through poetry, storytelling, and photography.

31 Aug 2026 Log 68: Gardens

While we humans occupy many houses, our houses all share one site: Earth. This is never more pointed, and poignant, than when astronauts looking down at our cloudy blue planet call the orb “home.”

Log 68 considers the concept of garden not only as a method of sustaining cities but also as a planetary act. What is the status and potential of the garden – its concept and its being – in architecture and on Earth today?

Submissions are due by Monday, August 31, 2026. Submissions should be between 250 and 4,000 words.

https://www.anycorp.com/submissions

05 Sep 2026 CFP: Alternative Spirituality: Counter-Normativity, Rejected Epistemologies, Epistemologies of the Rejected

Thematic issue of Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, edited by Justyna Balisz-Schmelz and Marta Kudelska. (EN, PL)

Full call (EN): https://arthist.net/archive/51542

For detailed information regarding the editorial requirements / further information on the journal visit: https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy

15 Sep 2026 Paul Mellon Centre funding - Autumn 2026 + Spring 2027

Autumn 2026 deadline: Monday 14 September 2026 (11:59pm BST) Spring 2027 deadline: Monday 18 January 2027 (11:59pm GMT)

For individuals:

  • Research grants
  • Author grants
  • Study support grants
  • Andrew Wyld Research support grants
  • New Narratives Master’s degree scholarship
  • New Narratives Doctoral scholarship
  • New Narratives Early career fellowship
  • Rome Fellowship

Details for individuals: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/grants-and-funding-individuals

For organisations:

  • Research project grants
  • Exhibition publication grants
  • Event support grants
  • Conservation grants (Technical grant)
  • Digitisation grants (Technical grant)

Details for organisations: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/grants-organisations

Official announcement post: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/news/our-funding-news