Reflections on What Is Still Worth Creating
UNFINISHED, the BIG SEE theme for 2027, begins with a question rather than a conclusion: what do you believe is still worth creating?
UNFINISHED, the BIG SEE theme for 2027, looks at civilization as something still in the making. At a time when more of the world is being optimized, automated and predicted, it asks what role human potential, our capacity to imagine, create, connect and respond to uncertainty, can continue to play in shaping what comes next. South-East Europe provides the context for this exploration: a region where transformation, limitation and adaptation have long influenced how things are built, made and reimagined.
Within this wider theme, BIG SEE Reflections begins with a direct question: what do you believe is still worth creating?
The question is intentionally open. It can be approached through architecture, design, technology, culture or everyday life; through something that should be preserved, something that needs to change, or something that does not yet exist. Different disciplines, places and generations will inevitably produce different answers.
That difference is part of the purpose. The reflections gathered here are not intended to form a single position, but to reveal how people working across the creative fields understand what still deserves their attention, effort and imagination.
As new voices are added, the collection will continue to evolve. Rather than resolving the theme, these reflections keep it active: through individual positions on what remains worth making, questioning, transforming and carrying forward.
Ivo Vaz Barbosa, Ricardo Acosta and Tomé Capa
Portugal
Liza Idziorek
Austria
Luigi Cafiero
Italy
Matej Kušević
Croatia
Reflections on What Is Still Worth Creating
UNFINISHED, the BIG SEE theme for 2027, begins with a question rather than a conclusion: what do you believe is still worth creating?
UNFINISHED, the BIG SEE theme for 2027, looks at civilization as something still in the making. At a time when more of the world is being optimized, automated and predicted, it asks what role human potential, our capacity to imagine, create, connect and respond to uncertainty, can continue to play in shaping what comes next. South-East Europe provides the context for this exploration: a region where transformation, limitation and adaptation have long influenced how things are built, made and reimagined.
Within this wider theme, BIG SEE Reflections begins with a direct question: what do you believe is still worth creating?
The question is intentionally open. It can be approached through architecture, design, technology, culture or everyday life; through something that should be preserved, something that needs to change, or something that does not yet exist. Different disciplines, places and generations will inevitably produce different answers.
That difference is part of the purpose. The reflections gathered here are not intended to form a single position, but to reveal how people working across the creative fields understand what still deserves their attention, effort and imagination.
As new voices are added, the collection will continue to evolve. Rather than resolving the theme, these reflections keep it active: through individual positions on what remains worth making, questioning, transforming and carrying forward.
What Do You Believe Is Still Worth Creating?
What Do You Believe Is Still Worth Creating?
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