Open Call: Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2024

The 2024 edition of TAB will focus on the relationship between people and natural resources. It 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.

Who can apply:

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.

Submission process

Proposals can be submitted in two categories:
1. Contributions to Physical Projects (works/research in any physical format for indoor and
outdoor space)
2. Educational Activities and Workshop.

Applications must be submitted in either English or Georgian. The international jury will evaluate all proposals based on their quality and relevance to the main concept of TAB 2024. All suggested projects must relate clearly to the Biennial's main theme.