Infrastructures
of Care

Mesh – Festival for Art and Technology – poses the question in its 2026 edition: How do we want to live together in the future – especially in our cities? Mesh combines art and technology with social issues. The program demonstrates that urban spaces and their future can be shaped by those who inhabit them.

The 2026 edition, Infrastructures of Care, points to the foundations that make a good life possible: social relationships, equitable technologies, and a mindful engagement with the environment. Care is understood here as something collective—a practice we shape together.

The Circle of Care consists of five themes:

Commons of Connection shows how people can meet and support one another—even in a digital world and with the help of digital infrastructures.

Wild Cities highlights that cities and the countryside are used and inhabited not only by people, but also by animals and plants.

Memory Machines explores the conditions of collective memory and the circulation of knowledge—as well as who becomes visible within them.

Future Playgrounds invites people of all ages to explore and develop ideas for the future together.

Circular Systems addresses sustainability and the responsible use of resources—with structures that strengthen cycles and conceive of our living spaces as interconnected systems, from Earth to outer space.

The Circle of Care is complemented by Urban Actions | Spatial Utopias—a field in which new concepts for urban space are tested in practice and jointly conceived and designed.

With Mesh 2026, we bring into focus how everything connects—and warmly invite everyone to take part in actively and equitably shaping spaces and visions together at Dreispitz in Basel this October.