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padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Open call for <em style="font-style: italic;">HOW TO CIVIC?</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>book<br></strong>What transforming institutions can do for us<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><br></strong></td></tr><tr><td height="20" class="space" style="margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;"><img src="https://images-eflux.b-cdn.net/assets/1b6f63d5-784d-4788-bc3f-234639ee8aa9.gif" alt="" height="20" style="border: medium; outline: currentcolor; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1 !important; max-width: 100%; display: block;"></td></tr><tr><td class="content content-event" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><p class="vertical-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">January 27–April 15, 2026<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p></td></tr><tr><td height="20" class="space" style="margin: 0px !important; 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font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">What Transforming Institutions Can Do for Us?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/2fcb7017871510b20f443d89ac2f5bfdca6c76b1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">Submit an image</strong></a>* for the book about how to make civic spaces.**</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">How is the ever-remaining question. How do we stay open, generous, porous? How do we not just talk about change but actually practice it? And what does it mean to be an institution—not as a fixed structure, but as a joint ongoing, lived activity?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">For us in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/5535ecf57de00f7ab3807795e5c81a79738db368" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">CIVIC</a>, it always comes down to time, space, labour, and relationality in their most lived forms. How much space do institutions, or places outside of them, make for people to show up as themselves, and how much do they take without noticing? Labour is central too: the visible work that’s rewarded, and the invisible work that sustains everything. Participation sits at the centre of this, because to take part is to give finite resources like attention, energy, and care.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">Since activating our 400 square-meter ground-floor civic space—simply called CIVIC, standing for civic engagement, assembly, education, pedagogy, and people—it has functioned less as a room and more as an aspiration: an ideology, a wish, and a practice of openness.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">From the outset, we initiated and invited participatory formats, yet what proved most effective were Open Calls. Openness meant deliberately working with people we don’t know and had not collaborated with before—through the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/6b97e60c856e0473efc07ff65c17973f279203b7" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">open call for a project during Art Basel</a>, or with contributors previously unknown to us. It also meant maintaining anonymous selection processes, as with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/c961293c3a898876c4f3224d336c6eccb50eadbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">CIVIC Billboard</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and actively shaping conditions that make participation and activation accessible.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">And this is why, once again, we are launching this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/2fcb7017871510b20f443d89ac2f5bfdca6c76b1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">open call</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to everyone interested in sharing their thoughts, insights, and imagination on civic spaces and civic life. The selected images will contribute to the making of our book: a practical and reflective handbook grounded in practice, focused on creating, sustaining, and reimagining civic spaces across both institutional and informal contexts. Bridging sociology, spatial theory, art, design, and architecture, the handbook wants to draw on experiences gathered through collaborations at CIVIC at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/26eee4a461da5dcff0fe74bbe0d7b25cc4e06d5f" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">Basel Academy of Art and Design</a>, alongside external, global, contributions. In the spirit of the artist Martha Graham’s enduring advice, our guiding principle is to keep the channel open.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">This<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-style: italic; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">HOW TO CIVIC?</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>handbook aims to come from doing—from small gestures, experiments, and practices learned inside and at the margins of institutions. It’s a public, imperfect, relational manual shaped by people showing up, making room, and insisting on doing something else or a bit more.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">Editor:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/91d1e485bf0861116cddfad52304a9052a535a2d" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">Matylda Krzykowski</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/ Copy Editor:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/65beab62f478110b9c65f61c22dbabaa173cee32" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">Louisa Elderton</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/ Assistant Editor: Maria Maddalena Lenzi / Design:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/17fa9f6549efd0480cc0b17f90f8a5a1980199d1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">Tristesse Basel</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/ Publisher: TBA / Launch: 2027 / Language: English / 300–400 pages.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;"><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/3f23a50dbe800af2427935f865ae80c3f076a2a8" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">Submit an image*</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>until April 15, 2026.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;">*Image/meme/sketch/graphic/diagram/screenshot/visual.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">**Civic spaces are environments—physical or digital—that allow people to freely gather, speak, organize, and participate in public life.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/5535ecf57de00f7ab3807795e5c81a79738db368" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">CIVIC</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a social infrastructure and an educational and experimental place for students, teachers, and the public, situated on the ground floor of the high-rise building of Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Since January 2022.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">More information:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/5535ecf57de00f7ab3807795e5c81a79738db368" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">whatiscivic.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailti:civic.hgk@fhnw.ch" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;">civic.hgk@fhnw.ch</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/jz14886w9j883/track-url/rj476aj0679d5/7ebb8d740e6a19a166def2347d4cb090fadeb45a" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;"><u>@hgkbasel_civic</u><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: "Neue Haas Unica", Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;"> </span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="20" class="space content-left" style="margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px; width: 0px !important;"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="auto" class="table-wrap-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div></body></html>