The seventh edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam,IABR–2016–THE NEXT ECONOMY–, will open in April 2016.

Chief Curator is Maarten Hajer, director-general of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

IABR invites urban designers, architects, landscape architects, academics, artists, planners, cities, universities, companies and social organizations, or coalitions thereof, to submit best practices, projects and plans in response to the challenges formulated in the IABR–2016–CALL FOR PROJECTS– and further articulated in the IABR–2016–CURATOR STATEMENT–.

IABR–2016 is a platform for fresh ideas on the possible future of the twenty-first-century city. IABR will exhibit designs and promote dialogues that open up perspectives of the city. IABR wants: a clean city, a communal city, a productive city – a city in which the public space once again occupies center stage.

If you want to submit your project for IABR–2016, please read the Call for Projects and the Curator Statement carefully –they can be downloaded on this page. Then fill in the Application Form and mail it to IABR not later than June 4, 9AM

Each IABR edition seeks a new point of view and a new perspective while building on the work of the preceding edition(s). Nothing is needlessly discarded; knowledge and results accumulate, the network grows. 
The IABR is continually working on clarifying and presenting the challenges of tomorrow, by positioning design, by connecting thinking to doing, and open research to concrete ventures and existing projects.

Related:

Archinect Interviews George Brugmans, IABR - Part 1, Making City

Archinect Interviews George Brugmans, IABR - Part 2, Arnavutköy, Istanbul​

Archinect Interviews George Brugmans, IABR - Part 3, São Paulo, Rotterdam and Beyond