it's 2025 take a stance

designers must rethink their roles and position to face today’s uncertainties and tomorrow’s challenges. Now it’s your turn. what do you stand for?

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

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

What do you stand for?

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

we now give the stage to you, our community.

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

Here is a tentative program.
17:00 – Walk in
17:30 – Program starts introduction
17:45 – Presentations from selected speakers
18:45 – Collective discussion
19:15 – Closing notes
19:30 – Networking drinks with installation
20:00 – End of evening