Research Residencies Museum of the Commons – Climate

Number of residences: 2

Grant: 5.000€ per residence

Dates: December, 2024 – May, 2025

Inside the framework of: Museum of the Commons

Organised by: Museo Reina Sofía and L’Internationale

Museum of the Commons is a four-year project (2023 to 2026) implemented by the confederation L’Internationale and financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe Programme (Grant Agreement 101100021). The proyect centres on three main focal points: the climate emergency, decolonial perspectives and situated institutionalism.

As a member of L’Internationale, Museo Reina Sofía calls for, amongst other activities, four research residences, distributed in two calls between 2024 and 2025. The first one calls for two residences, whose objective is to foster research through artistic and cultural practices and participation in research networks bound to Museum of the Commons – in particular to its first work line, which focuses on the current planetary climate crisis, the sustainability of institutional, artistic and cultural practices and the urgency to transform our politics, societies, cultures and ways of living towards ecologically sustainable models.

• The research lines proposed for this call are:
• Ecological, social and political sustainability of the cultural ecosystem,
• Food sovereignty and situated institutional practices such as community gardens and kitchens,
• Architecture as a lab for institutional and social sustainability,
• Diaspora and migrant communities, in particular as a result of climate change,
• Communal practices and political imagination.