Wanted: Your visions of future and transformation
"The Future is Now!”
Take part in the ARL photo competition 2025 and surprise us with your view of a sustainable future!
The global challenges of our time – multiple crises and challenges including climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality– make one thing clear: bold steps are needed towards a sustainable and just society. The change we need deeply impacts society and demands a ‘Great Transformation‘ towards a post-fossil, resource-conserving, and land-protecting future. This transformation is evident not only in scientific and political discourse but also visible and tangible in our everyday spaces.
On the occasion of the ARL Congress 2025 in Halle an der Saale, the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) invites you to capture the socio-ecological transformation in images: How is this change visible in our cities and regions? What successes, as well as conflicts and challenges, shape the socio-ecological transformation of our living spaces? From sustainable energy projects and new mobility concepts to biodiversity-friendly agriculture – show us through your photos what transformation means to you.
Suggested Topics
- The shift in energy and mobility
- Projects for climate and biodiversity protection
- Transformations in food and agriculture
- Challenges and conflicts of transformation
- Innovative solutions and creative approaches to a sustainable future
- Transformations in lignite mining regions
- Your own ideas!
Rules of participation
Participation is free and open to all! Please upload your picture via the online entry form by 15 February 2025 at the latest. You may submit a maximum of two photos. Please send photos in high resolution (at least 300 dpi) and include a short description for each photo (max. 80 words) explaining its context and connection to the socio-ecological transformation.
Employees at the ARL Headquarters are encouraged to submit their photos; however, they are not eligible to participate in the competition.
The winners
Our independent jury will choose the winners in an anonymous selection process; there is no right of appeal.
We will exhibit the most compelling entries at the 2025 ARL Congress in Halle an der Saale, Germany from 27-28 March 2025 and in our Image Gallery on arl-international.com.
Congress participants can vote for a winning photo. The winner of the vote will receive a special audience award.
The winners will be rewarded with a photo-calendar with a selection of entries.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at international@arl-net.de
We look forward to seeing your perspective!
