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• Participation in the Open Call applies to (landscape) architects and urban planners living/established in the Netherlands (to maximize availability and keep travel costs affordable).
• The call involves collaboration with a researcher/designer from outside the Netherlands. The goal is to include methods, case studies, or projects in your proposal that have served as a point of reference or source of inspiration for you.

• Define an important issue for the role of architecture in society, based on research or ideas that you would like to address/question;
• Involve an international research/platform or designer;
• Draft a programme that involves the design community (event, short articles for our website);
• Create a small exhibit/presentation of your thinking and approach in 1 cabinet in the Arcam gallery.

• Organisation and support in putting together programmes (event/mini-exhibition);
• Assistance and a sounding board during your Residency;
• Editing and posting your content on our website;
• Promotion of your Residency (website/social media/external media);
• Overview of deadlines and planning;
• Budget management and handling invoices and payments.

• A brief description of what you would like to address, based on either new research or expanding on existing research (max. 400 words);
• A brief reference to previous research or projects (min. 1, max. 3) which support your proposal (PDF, music, video, still image, etc.);
• Involve a (landscape) architect or urban planner outside the Netherlands (also get their consent in writing before applying);
• A brief overview of how your material budget of € 1500 will be spent;
• Proof of registration in the Architects Register or equivalent;
• A high-resolution portrait photograph of yourself and any partners/collaborators;
• A high-resolution image representing your research proposal;
• A short biographical description of yourself and any partners/collaborators.
• Note: you should be available for both periods, but you can mention a preference for AiR1 (march-june) or Air2 (sept-dec).

Send your application by e-mail to indira@arcam.nl . Deadline Thursday 25 January 2024 23.59h.

Current planning is as follows:

• 20 December 2023: open call online
• Until 12 January 2024: opportunity to submit written inquiries via indira@arcam.nl
• 18 January: publication of answers to inquiries
• 25 January: open call deadline
• 8 February: selection of proposals
• 15 February: selection announcement
• 1 March: appointment of AiR1 and programming start
• 1 March: AiR1 begins
• June 2024: AiR1 public seminar and conclusions
• September 2024: AiR2 begins
• 1 September: appointment of AiR2 and programming start
• December 2024: AiR2 public seminar and conclusions

• Marisa Cortright – architect/researcher and author of Can this be? Surely this cannot be? Architectural Workers Organizing in Europe
• Kuba Jekiel – metaverse and IRL architect, founder of Hyper Living
• Marjolein van Eig – architect and critical interrogator of numerous false certainties in architecture

• Urgency and originality of your project
• Extent to which your project uncovers blind spots or reconsiders design issues
• Quality of earlier projects or the underlying research (substantiation, partners involved, and platforms where the research was previously publicized, if applicable)
• Opportunities for valuable interaction between designers and others
• Events programme
• Feasibility