From over 120 submissions, 18 projects were selected for their capacity to question, imagine, and reconfigure architecture’s relationship to land, memory, and material cycles. These contributions — speculative, situated, poetic and precise —extend the exhibition’s inquiry into how we can build in dialogue with the earth rather than on top of it. The selection is featured in the exhibition as a newspaper format titled "Grounded Forecast: Open Call Selection.”

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• 3DPA Forest Campus
• Clog - The Architecture of Residual Drains
• Deposition School
• Earthbound: Grounded in Tradition, Built for Future
• Edge Species
• #FlyingEarth
• Fragile Grounds: Tracing Lake Tuz through Matter and Processes 2025
• Grounded in Ancient Earth: New Architecture for Tell Tayinat / Kunulua, Hatay, Türkiye
• Kent Bacaları
• Land of Human==Nature Heterarchy
• Meshatlık
• Oasis - Karapınar Solar Power Plant SCADA Building
• RHIZO[ME]MORY: re-imagining the city through productive memories
• Sille Community Center ‘Learning & Sharing Spaces’
• Soil as Resource, Not Waste: A Trans-material Approach to Architectural Production
• story mine*
• The N-swaddle
• Time’s Machineries

Architecture department students from universities, recent graduates,and architects can apply.

❶ Online application form

❷ Project credentials; including the participant’s full name, university, studio coordinator, and year of production.

❸ Two presentation boards (dimensions: 29.5 cm height x 35 cm, 300 dpi resolution) that convey the conceptual and visual details of the projects. All visuals used in the boards should comply with this resolution, and technical drawings, if included, must be prepared as vector graphics.

❹ A descriptive text explaining the project with a maximum length of 1,200 characters (excluding spaces), in PDF format. All documents must be prepared in English and in PDF format. The application form will remain open until Monday, 3 March 2025, at 17.00 (Istanbul time, GMT+3).

For detailed information about the open call, please contact: yerebasan@iksv.org

Submissions to the open call will be evaluated by a jury including the exhibition curators Ceren Erdem and Bilge Kalfa; Yelda Gin, architect, researcher and lecturer at London South Bank University; Özgül Öztürk, founder of A Architecture with a focus on circular design; and Levent Özruh, director of London-based architectural design studio OZRUH and a UK Design Council expert.