open programme

Do you have ready-made projects that you can present to a wide audience? Do you want to convey something socially important, share your knowledge, inspire your audience? Or maybe you are planning to implement an interesting activity in the urban space?

Send a proposal and get a chance to include your idea in the Łódź Design Festival program, which will take place on May 20-25, 2025!

open programme is an open call to Łódź Design Festival, which allows students, designers, producers, creators, artists, researchers, innovators, educators, activists to submit their own proposals to the festival program. Individual creators, but also institutions, associations, foundations, schools/student groups, galleries, etc. can submit their ideas.

The call for entries for this year’s edition of Łódź Design Festival will last:

• I stage of recruitment: from 15.01 to 15.02.2025
• II stage of recruitment: from 17.02 to 15.03.2025

APPLICATION CATEGORIES:

• exhibition/presentation/installation at the Festival Center

• urban activity (tour, walk, field game)

• ŁDF accompanying event outside the Festival Center (exhibition, workshop, meeting, lecture) * organization on the side of the applicant *

MAIN RULES:

• open programme cooperation is carried out free of charge.

• Each applicant can send a maximum of 2 proposals.

• Proposals can be either individual or from a design/creative/artistic group or, for example, an entire yearbook from an art school or other university.

• Submitted ideas must have a ready-made presentation/performance formula, and in the case of exhibitions/presentations/installations also have a Polish-English narrative.

• The planned number of realizations accepted under the open program is a maximum of 10 proposals.

• The call for the 2025 edition will last until March 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm (CET) or until the availability of space proposals from the open call is exhausted.

• Transportation, installation, dismantling, visual identification and handling of the exhibition/presentation/installation are the responsibility of the applicant.

• Information on qualification/non-qualification for this year’s selection will be sent no later than 28.02 or 28.03.2025, depending on the stage in which the application was sent.

WHAT WE OFFER?

• space for the realization of the idea [*does not apply to the urban activity and the accompanying event].

• necessary connections (as agreed) [*does not apply to urban activity and accompanying event].

• promotion as part of activities related to the ŁDF program