Matadero Madrid have opened a call for proposals for their next Collaborative Prototyping Lab (CPL), an intensive two-week workshop coordinated by internationally renowned experts/artists to collectively develop initiatives related to the theme ‘The Metabolic Sublime’.
The laboratory will take place at the Matadero Matadero facilities in Madrid, between 25 January – 7 February 2023.
By means of this call, eight projects will be selected to be developed together with multidisciplinary work teams. Once they have been selected, the projects will be made public and Matadero Madrid will launch a second call for tender to find collaborators keen to join the Medialab Matadero to help develop them.
The organisers are interested in all kinds of projects - from highly technical to other more experimental ones – no matter their stage of development, from incipient ideas to projects in their final stages of definition and testing – that would benefit from the context of collaboration and co-creation offered by Medialab.
All proposals should address the theme of ‘The Metabolic Sublime’ which, in the context of the current climate crisis, asks about other possible material and energy flows capable of ensuring an adequate ecosystem balance. This includes proposals that encourage the invention, construction and deployment of alternative metabolic systems and mechanisms regardless of the scale at which they operate, advancing research in both micro-scale frameworks – the generation of new materials, energy production systems, molecular engineering, carbon capture mechanisms or bio-manufacturing – and macro-scale frameworks – alternative governance models, radical logistics protocols, institutional design, sustainable food systems, circular waste management, energy transition strategies or geoengineering.
This Collaborative Prototyping Laboratory is aimed at individuals and groups from anywhere in the world, with any level of qualification and from such disciplines as design, art, architecture, urban planning, economics, film, photography, journalism, digital media, environmental sciences, philosophy, engineering, social studies, political sciences, programming, materials science, activism or indeed any other field. The Lab languages will be English and Spanish.
For selected participants who live outside the Community of Madrid, Medialab will handle and cover the travel and accommodation expenses of one person per project. Each selected project will also receive a financial allocation of €900 to fund production costs of the project.
