Open Call for Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2024: Correct Mistakes

Deadline Date: May 13, 2024

Donor Name: Tbilisi Architecture Biennial

Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000

Applications are now open for the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2024: Correct Mistakes that will focus on the relationship between people and natural resources.

The 2024 edition of TAB will highlight the critical role that architects, urban planners, communities, policymakers, and environmentalists play in navigating this complex dynamic.

The Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2024 will explore the interdependent relationship between the environment and humanity, focusing on their mutual influences. It will explore the interplay between Georgia’s natural resources and societal challenges resulting from historical exploitation, environmental policies and climate change.

Georgia’s geographic richness will be presented as a double-edged force that extends beyond water to broader ecological dimensions critical to the country’s ecosystem, economy, agriculture, energy, and culture.

One of the research focuses of TAB 2024 will center on the water. This includes transforming revered water bodies into exploited resources, which resonates with global concerns regarding technological progress, climate change, and evolving societal values. In addition to this exploration, comprehensive critical research will engage experts to analyze the historical, political, geographic, environmental, economic, ethical, and social dimensions that have shaped Georgia’s past and present regarding the use of shared natural resources in general. The 4th edition of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial will explore critical issues beyond water, including deforestation, mining cities, melting glaciers, the climate crisis, pollution and degradation of soil. The research will also focus on the complexities of urban growth and its constraints, prompting a thought-provoking exploration of transforming natural resources into commodities and tools for progress and profit.

Categories

• Physical Project
  • Tbilisi Architecture Biennial will host the indoor exhibition as well as propose participants to create physical projects (installations) in the outdoor space. Applicants are free to suggest any format of their preference either in indoor or outdoor space.
  • Tbilisi Architecture Biennial suggests the following locations in Tbilisi, Georgia, as points of reference for the submitted proposals and concepts in the category of Physical Projects in case participants will decide to execute the projects in outer space. Nevertheless, the applicants are free to offer the locations of their choice.
  • The location of the indoor space will be communicated additionally.
  • A maximum of three selected participants will be awarded a maximum of 4000 Euros each to cover production costs and honorariums. The awarded amount includes all applicable taxes, including the bank tax for money transfers and travel costs. If the budget exceeds the amount designated by the Biennial, the applicants are welcome to provide additional funding from other sources.
  • One Additional winner will be selected from Switzerland as support from the Pro Helvetia fund with the same terms and rules stipulated above.
• Educational Activity/Workshop 
  • There will be one workshop offered in the frames of TAB 2024. The applicant should define their duration, context and details of implementation.
  • One selected proposal will be awarded a maximum of 3000 Euros to implement the workshop. The awarded amount includes all applicable taxes, including the bank tax for money transfers and travel costs. If the budget exceeds the amount designated by the Biennial, the applicants are welcome to provide additional funding from other sources.
  • Note: This open call is for selecting facilitators and workshop themes only. Based on the winners’ decision, a separate open call for selecting participants might be announced later.

Eligibility Criteria

• All interested architects, artists, writers, scholars, urbanists, and creative individuals, regardless of location, age or experience, are invited to submit a proposal. The application process is free of charge.

For more information, visit Tbilisi Architecture Biennial.