This June: Open House Festivals in Bern and Torino
UPCOMING FESTIVALS
Fellergut. Photo: Damian Poffet
OPEN HOUSE BERN
BERN, SWITZERLAND
1-2 JUNE
The first edition of Open House Bern features more than 45 buildings and outdoor spaces from different eras in and around the UNESCO old town. The festival has something for everyone, from a baroque city palace and the first textile factory along the river Aare to a converted office building from the 1960s and a private apartment building in the upscale district. Exploring with kids? Pick up a puzzle book to engage them in playful learning about architecture.
Tailor Made Home. Photo courtesy of Open House Torino
OPEN HOUSE TORINO
TURIN, ITALY
1-2 JUNE
Open House Torino returns with more than 150 sites and 12 guided tours. This year, many private residences are opening their doors for the first time, including the renovated 1940s apartment Tailor Made Home and the Scandinavian pop Casa Resterà. Botanical enthusiasts, don’t miss the aeroponic gardens at Open011 or the innovative thermal storage project by Iren Energiathe, Heat Garden, which features rooftop gardens with over 11,000 plants.
AROUND THE NETWORK
Bunurong Memorial Park. Photo by Jonathan Lang for Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust
SIX FEET UNDER:
DESIGN + DEATH SYMPOSIUM
OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE
2 JUNE
Join Open House Melbourne for a day of panel conversations illuminating the architecture, places, issues, and practices associated with death and the end of life. Six Feet Under: Design + Death invites audiences to consider the intersection of design and death and discover how the spaces we associate with death and dying are surprisingly not so much about death as about life and how we live.
Wood floor detail. Photo by Karolis Zeltinis
OPEN CALL: VISUAL STORIES OF ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION
Open House Athens, Barcelona, Bilbao, Brno, Dublin, Essen, Lisbon, Milan, Prague, Stockholm, Slovenia, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, and Vilnius invite their attendees to submit their interpretation of the theme "accessibility and inclusion" through photography, film, drawing and other visual art forms.
Three winners will be exhibited in Dublin as part of the Open House Europe Annual Summit 2025 and featured in a print publication. Later on, the exhibition will travel to other events across Europe.