07/09/2026
🎨 The 15th International Arts & Design Symposium 2026
“Work in Progress: Postmemory”
📣 OPEN CALL FOR CREATIVE WORK SUBMISSIONS
Artists, designers, creators, researchers, and students are invited to submit their creative works for the 15th International Arts & Design Symposium 2026, under the theme “Work in Progress: Postmemory.”
This year’s theme explores the traces of memory, experience, identity, and stories that are remembered, inherited, reconstructed, and transformed across generations.
✨ Submission Period
📅 September 7–27, 2026
🖼️ Exhibition Dates
📅 October 26–30, 2026
💡 Submission Fees & Details
For submission fees, guidelines, and further information, please visit:
www.workinprogress-symposium.design
Join us in exploring “Postmemory” through creative perspectives and diverse forms of artistic and design expression.
📢 Submit your work and be part of the 15th International Arts & Design Symposium 2026!
The 15th International Arts & Design Symposium 2026 “Work in Progress: Postmemory”
Open Call for Creative Work Submissions: September 7-27, 2026
Exhibition Dates: October 26-30, 2026
Please see submission fees and details at www.workinprogress-symposium.design
The symposium is hosted by the Council of Arts and Design Deans of Thailand (CADDT), the Association of Siamese Architects under the Royal Patronage (ASA), the Royal Photographic Society of Thailand, and the Thai Graphic Designers Association (ThaiGa). It is coordinated by the Faculty of Digital Arts, the College of Design, and the Faculty of Architecture at Rangsit University.
The International Arts and Design Symposium: “Work in Progress” (founded in 2012) is an international forum for scholars, designers, and artists from various fields to share and discuss their works in progress.
The theme of the 15th International Arts & Design Symposium 2026, “Postmemory,” explores what remains of the past and how it continues to shape the present. Memory is shaped by time, experience, and social context, and persists through traces such as images, narratives, objects, spaces, language, and emotions. These traces can be transmitted across individuals and generations, becoming continually reinterpreted and reconstructed through changing experiences and contexts.
Postmemory offers a framework for examining how experiences of the past are transmitted to those who did not experience them directly. Through images, stories, objects, media, and cultural practices, inherited experiences are received, interpreted, and reconfigured. The work of Marianne Hirsch constitutes one important theoretical foundation for understanding this process, alongside broader perspectives on personal, collective, and cultural memory, history, identity, migration, displacement, and mediated memory.
The theme invites artists, designers, and scholars to explore the relationship between past and present through diverse creative practices, including art, design, photography, video, installation, architecture, digital media, and other contemporary forms. It encourages critical and creative inquiries into how memories and traces are preserved, transformed, forgotten, or reconstructed across individuals, generations, and cultural contexts.
Ultimately, “Postmemory” considers how what is inherited from the past continues to influence perception, identity, and ways of understanding the world. It opens a space to examine not only what is remembered, but also how memory is transformed through transmission, interpretation, and creative practice—revealing how the past continues to acquire new meanings in the present.
Exhibition:
26–30 October 2026, On-site Exhibition at Pattana Gallery and Online Exhibition at www.workinprogress-symposium.design
Keynote Session: 28 October 2026
Download Template Application Form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pOzAq8sgwMCupf6uXFlXrbcn_LoD3NP9/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101494575916080552131&rtpof=true&sd=true
