The OPEN CALL 2026 is aimed at individuals and teams from the fields of visual arts, music, literature, performing arts, design, photography and video art. It addresses the independent scene as well as small enterprises of the creative industry in Berlin. We are looking for a strong artistic concept that innovatively combines AI and XR in an interactive cultural project. This synthesis could be, for example, the use of AI as an artistic subject, as an agent (e.g. as an avatar) or as a tool in XR. From all submissions, our expert jury will select one concept to be co-developed at HTW Berlin as part of an Artistic Fellowship starting in May 2026.

Sitting is one of the most fundamental human activities – and at the same time one of the most diverse design challenges. With the exhibition ‘Sitzen machen!’ (Make a seat!), we invite you to take a new and very modern look at seating furniture. Above all, we invite you to submit your contributions to the exhibition! And we have deliberately misunderstood the exclamation ‘Make seats!’ from the film ‘One, Two, Three’ even more than it already was, namely as a call to make seats: chairs, armchairs, stools or pouffes!