CAFx Biennial and Form/Design Center Announces Group Exhibition

From today the call for submissions for a group exhibition aligned with the overarching theme of Copenhagen Architecture Biennale 2025, Slow Down, is open. The group exhibition represents a joint effort between Copenhagen Architecture Biennial and Form/Design Center, covering two venues—Halmtorvet 27 in Copenhagen and the Form/design Center in Malmö—thereby deepening the exploration of the theme.

They call for new narratives and concepts for a cultural imagination tied too much to speed—shock and surge, friction and frenzy, weariness and whirl. We call for innovative protocols for collective rituals, new infrastructures for slow looking, novel techniques for slow mobility, and new sites for noticing the slow—the long-term developmental horizon of societies, the deep time of geological movements and the gradual growth of plants.

They welcome not just practical and concrete approaches, but also speculative concepts that challenge conventional thinking and suggest new ways to live, think, and navigate the future. Everyone can contribute, and we value transdisciplinarity and experimentation spanning a broad spectrum of media categories such as project models, installations, sound works, video, performances, drawings, and texts. We hope you will contribute to this critical investigation of speed and its impact on the future of urban environments.

Deadline for submissions: 06.5.2025

Exhibition Periods:

17. September - 3. December at CAFx  

23. September - 23. November at Form/Design Center

Submit your project