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🔵 Read the CIVIC Billboard Jury report by Maria Maddalena Lenzi: “On dark or rainy days, the blue and green gradient can...
01/06/2026

🔵 Read the CIVIC Billboard Jury report by Maria Maddalena Lenzi: “On dark or rainy days, the blue and green gradient can transport the viewer elsewhere…”

“HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING?” The next CIVIC Billboard has been selected! Congratulations to Lina Yakobchuk, artist and alumna MA Digital Communication Environments (IDCE) for the outstanding proposal titled “THE PROCESS KNOWS BEFORE YOU DO”. 

🔥 SAVE THE DATE 🔥
The new motif will be revealed at the CIVIC Billboard inauguration on Tuesday, 15 September 2026 at 12 pm!
Until then, you can start to imagine it by reading the Jury Statement and diving into the Jury Session Report and images by on our website: www.whatiscivic.ch

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the open call: your energy and dedication shaped this edition!
Another warm thanks also go to the jury members for their time and thoughtful engagement:
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🪧 HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING? 🪧

Before there is certainty, there is a decision. Before expertise, a claim. Befo...
23/02/2026

🪧 HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING? 🪧

Before there is certainty, there is a decision. Before expertise, a claim. Before knowledge, a leap.

We’re proud to announce the jury for the next annual CIVIC Billboard, an Open Call launched by CIVIC at the Basel Academy of Art and Design, moderated by Matylda Krzykowski, artistic lead of CIVIC.

Each year, CIVIC invites students, employees, alumni (groups/teams with at least one person from the HGK cosmos are also welcome) to claim the billboard as a site of public negotiation. This year’s theme — HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING? — welcomes works that speak to finding your own way—through internal feeling and external response. It turns the spotlight on authority, doubt, intuition, systems of validation, and the fragile structures that shape us. We like to see and read something on the billboard about that inner dialogue that might not be about certainty. 

🔥All info on whatiscivic.ch - Deadline 20 April 2026 🔥

This year’s jury consisting of 5 students and 3 external experts. In alphabetical order:

Barbara Merca


Connor Muething
Designer & co-founder of from2TV, Alumni Masterstudio Scenography

Enes Akça


Leire Aranberri


Miranda Kistler


Samara Leite Walt
Journalist, Creative, co-founder of Hiver Collective and Bebbi Zine

Tzu-Chi Su
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Ugo Pecoraio
Independent Curator, Head of Communications at HEK, Director of Communications of Mesh Festival 


📖 Open Call 📖 
HOW TO CIVIC? What transforming institutions can do for us

Submit an image* for the book (including desc...
29/01/2026

📖 Open Call 📖 
HOW TO CIVIC? 
What transforming institutions can do for us

Submit an image* for the book (including description) about how to make civic spaces.** Until April 15, 2026 on our website 💻

*Image/meme/sketch/graphic/diagram/screenshot/visual
**Civic spaces are environments—physical or digital—that allow people to freely gather, speak, organise, and participate in public life.

How is the ever-remaining question. 🙋‍♂️How can we remain open, generous, and porous—how can institutions practice change rather than merely discuss it?

☁️ This open call feeds into a practical handbook grounded in doing—an imperfect, collective manual for creating and sustaining civic spaces across institutional and informal contexts.

 🔗 Openness means deliberately working with people we don’t know and have not collaborated with before or with contributors previously unknown to us. And this is why, once again, we are launching an open call 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.

This HOW TO CIVIC? handbook aims to come from doing—from small gestures, experiments, and practices learned inside and at the margins of institutions. It’s going to be a public, imperfect, relational manual shaped by people showing up, making room, and insisting on doing something else, or a bit more. 

Editor: Matylda Krzykowski / Copy Editor: Louisa Elderton / Assistant Editor: Maria Maddalena Lenzi / Design: Tristesse / Publisher: TBA / Launch: 2027 / Language: English / 300–400 pages.

More information: 
whatiscivic.com 
E-mail to: [email protected] 

Images: Design: Tristesse / Concept: CIVIC


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