12/10/2026
How can we rethink the spaces we inhabit? What role can technology, architecture and collective action play in shaping more caring and inclusive urban environments?
The final theme of our Circle of Care, conceived by this year’s Artistic Director Teresa Retzer Teresa Retzer, brings these questions into the physical world.
Urban Actions | Spatial Utopias, developed by iart - studio for media architectures as part of the Circle of Care, explores how care can shape our built environments. Through conferences, hands-on workshops and spatial installations, the programme invites us to imagine and experience new ways of interacting with the spaces around us.
With:
Christine Binswanger, Minou Afzali, Stefan Sulzer, Valentin Spiess, Matthias Böttger & Charlotte Truwant: Architecture of Care (Conference)
Markus Heckmann, Niculin Barandun & Oliver Heyerick: Light and Fixture Control in TouchDesigner: POPs, Rigs, GDTF, and MVR (Workshop) TouchDesigner Niculin Barandun
Dr. Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, Dr. Viktor Bedö, Oleg Lavrovsky, Dr. Gernot Tscherteu & Prof. Martijn de Waal: Ethics for Intelligent Infrastructures of Care (Conference)
Alvise Giacomazzi: Inhabiting Hostly Spaces (Workshop) Alvise Giacomazzi
Markus Heckmann: Introduction to TouchDesigner for Interactive Installations (Workshop) TouchDesigner
iart: MADO, a Device That Creates the Present (Exhibition) iart - studio for media architectures
iart & Christoph Merian Stiftung: Gleispool – A Mixed-Reality Experience (Exhibition) iart - studio for media architectures Christoph Merian Stiftung
Mesh – Festival of Art and Technology
Edition 2026: Infrastructures of Care
14–18 October 2026
Dreispitz, Basel
Full programme & tickets: meshfestival.ch