UNFINISHED
The Civilization of Becoming
The world is being completed.
Optimized. Automated. Predicted.
As our power to produce grows, so does our responsibility to choose what deserves to exist — and what should remain open.
For architects and designers, this responsibility takes form.
Every building, object and experience shapes how people live. Every design opens some possibilities and closes others.
What is worth building?
What deserves to be repaired?
What must remain unfinished so others can shape it?
UNFINISHED makes room for what we cannot fully predict: how people will inhabit, adapt, transform and give meaning to what we create.
BIG SEE asks those who shape the world to explore these questions in public, through work we can enter, hold, use, question and pass on.
Civilization is not only what we inherit.
It is what we keep making.
What Is Still Worth Creating?
Share your reflection.
We invite people from architecture, design, science, technology, culture and beyond to explore this question through words, sketches, photographs or video.
Your contribution can be personal or professional, practical or poetic: a position, a possibility or a question worth pursuing.
Your contribution will become part of the UNFINISHED Exhibition, published online and presented at the BIG SEE Festival, 20–21 May 2027 in Portorož, Slovenia.
By contributing, you will also receive a complimentary Festival Pass.
Austria
Liza Idziorek
Christian Ambos
Maria and Pepi Freund
Philipp Broinger
Albania
Jurtin Hajro
Croatia
Matej Kušević
Greece
Savvas Alexandrou
Portugal
Ivo Vaz Barbosa, Ricardo Acosta and Tomé Capa
Romania
Andreea Ivanescu
Spain
Miguel Crespo Picot
United States
Mike McCabe
UNFINISHED
The Civilization of Becoming
The world is being completed.
Optimized. Automated. Predicted.
As our power to produce grows, so does our responsibility to choose what deserves to exist — and what should remain open.
For architects and designers, this responsibility takes form.
Every building, object and experience shapes how people live. Every design opens some possibilities and closes others.
What is worth building?
What deserves to be repaired?
What must remain unfinished so others can shape it?
UNFINISHED makes room for what we cannot fully predict: how people will inhabit, adapt, transform and give meaning to what we create.
BIG SEE asks those who shape the world to explore these questions in public, through work we can enter, hold, use, question and pass on.
Civilization is not only what we inherit.
It is what we keep making.
What Is Still Worth Creating?
Share your reflection.
We invite people from architecture, design, science, technology, culture and beyond to explore this question through words, sketches, photographs or video.
Your contribution can be personal or professional, practical or poetic: a position, a possibility or a question worth pursuing.
Your contribution will become part of the UNFINISHED Exhibition, published online and presented at the BIG SEE Festival, 20–21 May 2027 in Portorož, Slovenia.
By contributing, you will also receive a complimentary Festival Pass.
Reflections
Reflections