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- News / Asia Culture Center: ‘Futures of Listening’ Residency (South Korea)The Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, Korea is seeking participants for its 2023 ACC Residency, which will take place over approximately six months from May – October 2023, with a showcase in November 2023. The reorganised 2023 programme is being carried out in conjunction with the ACC Sound Art Lab, which in 2023 is launching the project ‘Futures of Listening’ to research the sounds of Asia and Asian cities.
- News / ReSilence: Open Call for Artists to Design Soundscapes for Future CitiesAs part of the S+T+ARTS programme, the project ReSilence in collaboration with artists is developing technologies to shape in novel ways our urban environments and soundscapes, re-positioning the role of silence and that of sound. To design the soundscape of future cities, ReSilence supports the development of art-driven technologies in the spirit of S+T+ARTS through the collaboration of artists, architects, urban designers, scientists, engineers and researchers.
- News / Goethe-Institut: Cities Ahead in Logroño (Spain)Cities Ahead is launching an open call for international creatives to propose participatory actions for the transformation of public space in Logroño, integrating aspects of urban innovation and sustainable/ecological development. The selected proposals will be carried out in Logroño during Concéntrico 09 – International Architecture and Design Festival, which will take place from 27 April - 2 May 2023.Closed
- News / Open Call for International Design Lab ‘Reimagine Your City’ (Germany, Georgia / Online)The international design lab ‘reimagine your city’ is a two-year (2022-2023) educational programme for 100 multidisciplinary professionals residing in Georgia, Poland, Ukraine and Germany. It aims at youth empowerment and participation in the socio-cultural transformation of neighbourhoods via interactive digital and creative practices. The hybrid programme begins on 2 November 2022 with a 5-week research module, design masterclasses, an offline winter school in Berlin, extensive group work, and grants for the implementation of small-scale projects, ending with a summer school in Georgia in the summer of 2023.Closed
- News / Constant: Open Call, ‘Techno Cul de Sac’ (Belgium)This is an open call for application to the worksession Techno-Cul-de-Sac. The organisers invite artists, city dwellers, activists, electronic scavengers, conflicted urbanists and reluctant designers to spend a week together sharing practices related to the city’s zones of attention, contact, conflict.Closed
- News / Kunstkommission Düsseldorf: Commission for Art in Public Space (Germany)This year, the Art Commission of the City of Düsseldorf is launching a new scheme that focuses on promoting contemporary art in public spaces. With stadt.raum.experimente, local as well as internationally active artists are called upon to develop experimental and temporary concepts for the urban space of Düsseldorf. Whether installation, performance or participation, stadt.raum.experimente is open to unusual forms and experimental ideas.Closed
- News / Copenhagen Contemporary: Open Call, ‘Yet, It Moves!’ (Denmark)Yet, It Moves! will unfold through a series of decentralised art installations shown at different locations in Copenhagen from May to October 2023. The organisers Copenhagen Contemporary are searching for artists, architects, designers, curators, landscape architects or others who are in any way professionally engaged in art or architecture in the public space to send proposals for contributions.Closed
- News / Prince Claus Fund / Creative Industries Fund-NL: Building Beyond MentorshipBuilding Beyond is a year-long mentorship programme for individuals from Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Chad, South Africa, and South-Sudan.Closed
- News / RES URBANAE: Call for Projects on Urban Reconstruction (France / Germany)The RES URBANAE project explores the issue of reconstruction in the broadest sense by taking as its starting point the comparison of two cities – Brest and Dresden. A two-part residency is offered to develop a work for a travelling exhibition. The residencies run 9-29 January 2023 in Brest, and 29 January – 19 February 2023 in Dresden.Closed
- News / DePOT: Artist Fellowships, ‘Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time’ (Canada)The DePOT Artist in Residence (DePOT AIR) programme supports creative engagements with the historical roots and lived experience of deindustrialization. The organisers are interested in proposals that range across the performing, creative and visual arts, are rooted in deindustrialized areas in Italy, France, Germany, the UK, the US or Canada and that speak to the impact, and legacy, of mine, mill and factory closures. The creative work generated will be showcased in the artist’s home community as well as at the DePOT Project Assembly in June 2023 in Montreal, Canada.Closed
- News / The City as Forest Residency Programme (Brazil)The City as Forest Residency Programme offers immersion for research and experimentation, meant for artists and scientists interested in developing their work in the urban environment of Rio de Janeiro. The programme will run 16 May – 4 June 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Applicants from Brazil, Germany and Switzerland are invited to apply.Closed
- News / Open Calls for Concéntrico 08 – International Festival of Architecture and Design of Logroño (Spain)Concéntrico 08, International Festival of Architecture and Design of Logroño, proposes to reflect on the urban environment and the city through architecture and design proposals in different formats. The next edition will be held from 1 to 6 September 2022, and the festival is calling for proposals for site-specific installations.Closed