IMPACT26 – Friction Energy

Applications to participate in IMPACT26 can be submitted until 13 August 2026 (23:59 CET). Applications can only be submitted using the online form below. Please note that only fully completed applications will be considered. All fields marked as required must be filled out.

Closing Date:
13.08.2026 (23:59 CET)

All complete applications will be considered by the jury. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their decision by e-mail by the end of August 2026.

We are witnessing a present in which our coexistence is increasingly drifting away from a shared reality. In economic, technological, and administrative systems, decisions are often made in isolation, regardless of their consequences. This decoupling separates realities that nevertheless remain inextricably linked.

As places become locations, bodies become data, matter becomes resources, and life forms become manageable quantities, it is often only in moments of disruption, exhaustion, or detriment that we come to experience how our social and planetary web of relationships are interconnected.

›IMPACT26 – Friction Energy‹ addresses this point of rupture and is dedicated to transformative practices of coexistence in an era in which our relationships are deeply shaped by competition, exploitation, the ideology of progress, power, and social recognition. The transdisciplinary symposium explores the following questions: Can art—as a field of tension where all these logics converge—facilitate unexpected forms of cooperation? How can strategies be developed despite of, within, and even aslant to these prevailing systems? How do we learn from other actors and fields of knowledge when human and non-human participants acknowledge one another as collaborators?

IMPACT brings together practices and blueprints from the arts, sciences, urban space, architecture and other fields of research. This year’s edition will unfold in two phases: the first two days will be open to the public and will include brief presentations of the selected projects. These will be followed by two days of closed sessions devoted to exchanging ideas.

The call for proposals welcomes projects, practices and research approaches rooted in artistic, scientific, social, activist or technological fields. Participants are invited to share their work in open exchange with other international contributors.

You can find the online application form to participate in IMPACT26 here: Online Application IMPACT26

The closing date for submissions is 13 August 2026 (23:59 CET).