Mediterranean Futures Residency 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 19, 2026

Applications are invited for the Mediterranean Futures Residency 2026. EL SPACE is happy to announce the inaugural version of the Mediterranean Futures Residency, a selective two-month worldwide residency bringing collectively artists, designers, architects, and artistic technologists whose practices interact with cultural heritage, reminiscence, and up to date technological transformation.

Situated throughout the distinctive historic and cultural panorama of Tunisia, the residency gives a rigorous framework for creative inquiry, crucial alternate, and experimental follow. A cohort of 5 residents will likely be chosen by way of a world open name. Selected residents will likely be invited to undertake a interval of centered analysis and manufacturing at one of many Mediterranean’s most culturally wealthy websites, Carthage.

Areas of Interest

Applications might handle, however aren’t restricted to:

• Cultural reminiscence and up to date society
• Archives and counter-archives
• Architecture, urbanism, and spatial heritage
• Oral histories, storytelling, and intangible heritage
• Material tradition and craft traditions
• Digital heritage, preservation, and entry
• Artificial intelligence and cultural reminiscence
• Digital fabrication and up to date making
• Sound, picture, and technological mediation
• Speculative and demanding futures of heritage
• Public area, collective reminiscence, and contested histories
• Networked tradition and decolonial historic narratives
• Climate change and environmental dangers on native cultures

Benefits

Selected residents will obtain:

• Full lodging at some stage in the residency in Tunis
• Travel help to/from Tunis
• Meal help all through this system
• Production help, together with entry to digital fabrication amenities:
  • 3D printing
  • Laser slicing
• Curatorial and analysis mentorship from this system staff and invited specialists
• Access to cultural and heritage establishments, archives, and collections
• Integration into a world cohort of artists and researchers working throughout disciplines
• Opportunities for public presentation, skilled alternate, and demanding dialogue

Eligibility

• The Mediterranean Futures Residency welcomes purposes from rising and established practitioners throughout disciplines, together with:
  • Visual artists
  • New media and digital artists
  • Designers
  • Architects
  • Video artists
  • Photographers
  • Sound artists
  • Creative technologists
  • Independent researchers and students
  • Interdisciplinary and hybrid practitioners
• Applicants ought to show a robust, sustained creative or analysis follow and articulate a transparent and compelling engagement with questions of heritage, know-how, and up to date tradition. The residency significantly welcomes practitioners whose work operates on the boundaries of disciplines and challenges established frameworks.
• The residency is dedicated to assembling a cohort that displays the geographic, cultural, and disciplinary variety of the up to date artwork world.
• To be eligible, residents should be nationals of one of many following international locations: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Ukraine.

Application

Applicants should submit the next supplies in English or French:

• Curriculum Vitae: most 3 pages
• Artist Biography: most 300 phrases
• Statement of Practice: most 500 phrases, describing the applicant’s creative or analysis background and first areas of inquiry
• Project Proposal: most 1,000 phrases, outlining the precise analysis questions, strategies, and intentions the applicant needs to pursue throughout the residency
• Portfolio: as much as 10 consultant works or mission examples, with captions and temporary descriptions
• Preliminary Production and Resources Plan: a concise define of meant actions, sources, and timelines for the residency interval (embrace an inventory of supplies wanted)
• Links to related web sites, movies, or on-line work (non-compulsory)

All supplies needs to be submitted as PDF recordsdata through e mail at [email protected]

For extra data, go to Mediterranean Futures Residency.