We call for submissions to a group exhibition aligned with the overarching theme of Copenhagen Architecture Biennale 2025, Slow Down. We call for new narratives and concepts for a cultural imagination tied too much to speed—shock and surge, friction and frenzy, weariness and whirl. We call for innovative protocols for collective rituals, new infrastructures for slow looking, novel techniques for slow mobility, and new sites for noticing the slow—the long-term developmental horizon of societies, the deep time of geological movements and the gradual growth of plants.

We invite contributors to unsettle traditional distinctions between urban and non-urban, challenging the binary logic that opposes sites of consumption to sites of extraction, spaces of visibility to spaces of invisibility, and the urban mainstage to the non-urban backstage. How can we conceive of deceleration as an integral part of a larger system that transcends classical notions of urbanity? And how can we seek imaginative responses that envision the city not just as a standalone entity but as deeply interconnected with and reflective of broader ecological, geological, and societal systems?

Yet, our focus isn't solely on slow-paced solutions; we're also interested in works that critique, represent, or document the often unquestioned imperatives of speed. We welcome not just practical and concrete approaches, but also speculative concepts that challenge conventional thinking and suggest new ways to live, think, and navigate the future. We value transdisciplinarity and experimentation spanning a broad spectrum of media categories such as project models, installations, sound works, video, performances, drawings, and texts. We hope you will contribute to this critical investigation of speed and its impact on the future of urban environments.