Scholarship Program
Our annual four-month Scholarship Program serves as a space for knowledge exchange and collective creation for artists and thinkers working across collaborative practices.
Each year, eight practitioners are brought together around a specific theme to explore the intersections of their practices and backgrounds. The program seeks to identify crossroads where diverse experiences can generate meaningful and imaginative collaborations rooted in local contexts and community needs.
We cultivate a space in which togetherness itself becomes a co-created experience shaped by the participants. Alongside artistic exchange, participants cook together and engage with social protocols of collective decision-making and feedback.
The program concludes with a co-curated public launch event — a participatory program inviting the wider community to engage with the practices, tools, and conversations developed throughout the four month program.
SCHOLARSHIP
Each program participant will receive a €2000 monthly scholarship and a €500 production budget.
PAST PROGRAMS
2026: Embodying Community / Somatosocial Movements
2025: Networks of Mutual-Aid
2024: Technological Gaze
FAQs
The program is an in-person program. You are required to attend meetings in person, therefore we are sharing the detailed meeting schedule including the specific meeting days and expected participation in the open call. We have arranged to have two months (February and March) between the announcement of participants and the start of the program to give future participants time to make adjustments to their schedules if needed. However, we know that emergencies happen. If you need to miss a meeting, let one of the facilitators know in advance, as soon as possible.
The meetings take place in a community space in Berlin. The exact location will be shared with program participants.
The program is oriented towards knowledge and practice sharing between artists and thinkers already engaged in community-related work. We hope to make creative space by understanding each others’ practices and noticing the possibilities for cross-pollination that emerge. Production will be based on these emerging collaborations of real experience and local knowledge and needs.
You are free to do any other work during the program if it does not interfere with the meeting and coworking days and the expected participation in the launch week.
Meeting days are whole day in-person meetings, and we understand that it is a lot of group time. The meeting days are planned to be separated into four one-hour meetings blocks with two half an hour breaks and a one hour lunch break in between. There will be a chance to discuss accessibility needs during the start of the program with the group. If you have specific questions, please get in contact.
The application is only open for individuals. If you are group, you are welcome to submit applications separately.
English is preferred. However, if you have specific documents prepared in German you are welcome to submit that as well.
The working program language is English. However, fluency is not required. Most of our facilitators and past participants speak English as a second language. Proficiency is not the point as long as you are willing to work towards communicating. Please feel free to apply if you have a command of English, even if you are less confident to use it. We wish to hear many different voices.
No. Applications for the Scholarship Program are not open to past participants. However, previous Scholarship Program participants may apply to Micro-grants.