Young Talent 2025 Exhibition in Katowice
January 22, 2026
January 23, 2026
The jury formed by Maibritt Dammann, Ana Dana Beros, Jason O’Shaughnessy, Konstantinos Pantazis, and Daliana Suryawinata, reviewed 280 submitted projects from 107 schools across 92 cities in 37 countries.
They evaluated drawings, videos, and project briefs, ultimately selecting 35 projects to receive awards: 3 winners, 9 finalists, and 23 shortlisted projects. Among these shortlisted works, there is “Lands of Borderlands“ by Julia Wild of the Faculty of Architecture – Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.
The exhibition opens at the International Congress Centre in Katowice with the International Congress Centre in Katowice during the 4DesignDays event on 22 and 23 January 2026.
The exhibition, in this case entitled “future? / przyszłość?” is not merely a review of the best architectural diploma projects, but also a reflection on the future of architectural practice. The presented works reveal an understanding of architecture as an ethical and interdisciplinary act, deeply embedded in social, environmental, and spatial realities. The projects indicate possible directions for the development of architecture—more attentive, inclusive, and conscious of its role in shaping the future.
The exhibited works were previously shown as a Collateral event of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025, contributing to the international debate on the contemporary role of architecture and architectural education.
Curator: Anna Sala (Fundació Mies van der Rohe)
Local Curators: Beata Kucharczyk-Brus, Jan Kubec and Julia Wild
Coordination: Julia Wild, Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology, RAr-2 Chair of Housing and Public Architecture Design
Surface: 100m2
Visitors: 1100
By presenting these works, the exhibition offers not just visual and spatial innovation, but also critical reflections on how young architects are challenging conventional narratives (of destruction, replacement, isolation) replacing them with ideas of care, continuity, regeneration, and collective agency.
