The Jury’s Selection – Selected Entries from the Architecture Triennial’s Open Call

During the spring of 2026, Färgfabriken published an Open Call for their Architecture Triennial 2027, which will take place from April 17 to June 20, 2027 on the theme of Time Horizons.

The call welcomed architects and architectural teams working with transformation, reuse and regenerative methods to submit proposals for contributions to the Architecture Triennial's exhibition at Färgfabriken.

The submitted proposals for the Architecture Triennial 2027 demonstrate a strong commitment to the theme of Time Horizons. They address pressing issues with a particular focus on transformation based on existing materials and how different forms of temporality are expressed and renegotiated in architecture.

Several of the submitted entries operate within an expanded field of architecture, where architecture meets art, research, material development and critical practice. Many are testing new methods and working methods, often with an approach that enables exploring and problematizing complex issues. This reflects the need for experimental and investigative arenas in a time when the conditions of architecture are increasingly characterized by regulations, efficiency and specialization.

The jury has particularly paid attention to the contributions that unite relevant issues with a clear conceptual and design approach that can open new perspectives. The two selected proposals both do this, while combining questions, ideas or designs in unexpected ways that provide space for reflection.

The selected proposals

The proposal Health Factories, Beautiful Spaces by Alisa Kutsenko has been selected for its exploration of how historical events and geopolitical processes penetrate and transform both landscape spaces and the private sphere of the home. Through a strong design, the installation makes visible how different layers of time – from the rhythms of everyday life to the time horizons of geology, nature and political processes – exist in parallel and influence each other. The proposal captures how architecture both preserves and erases memories over time, and examines the home as a changing support structure for life under changing conditions.

The proposal Smink (Make up) by Fabulous Future Factory (Anders Berensson and Karin Matz) has been selected for its playful and at the same time critically investigative approach in relation to the existing surfaces of architecture, their temporalities, values and potential. By transferring the logic of makeup to architecture, the project shows how small, temporary interventions can change our reading of a room and direct our gaze towards what already exists. The proposal raises questions about ideals of beauty, aging, ornamentation and transformation, while formulating a resource-efficient approach to the built environment. With a conceptual approach and a clear spatial idea, Smink creates intriguing perspectives on how we can relate to what already exists.

The proposals have been selected by a jury consisting of architects Christin Svensson, Tor Lindstrand and Joanna Zawieja. The realized ideas will be displayed together with other contributions in the exhibition Time Horizons in the Architecture Triennial from April 17 to June 20, 2027, at Färgfabriken.

About the architects

Alisa Kutsenko is a London-based architect from Ukraine. Working at the intersection of architecture, film, and research. Her practice explores how systems of control reshape perception and our relationship to space before any physical transformation takes place. She is the writer and director of the short documentary 2000 Tonnes of Aerated Concrete and the animated film The House That Slowly Collapses. Kutsenko studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the Kharkiv School of Architecture. She has been involved in teaching and curatorial initiatives at the Architectural Association in London, worked with OMA in Rotterdam, and contributed to humanitarian housing projects for displaced people following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. New work will be exhibited at Tbilisi Architectural Biennial in 2026.

Fabulous Future Factory is a factory for future fantasticness led by Karin Matz and Anders Berensson. FFF began as a master studio at the KTH School of Architecture and continues outside of academia. For two years, the studio has explored what a Fabulous Future could be through different angles, scales and methods – maximum effect with minimal resource input, from the economics and aesthetics of recycling at full scale to fairy tales for children and visions of the future that try to make redistribution desirable. FFF wants to take back the idea of the future as fantastic – by critically but joyfully examining how something becomes valuable, attractive and loved, and what role ideals of beauty play in our view of materials, buildings and authenticity. Outside of FFF, they run their own architecture practices: Karin Matz Architect and Anders Berensson Architects.