AIL Residency Programme – Open Call for Angewandte Alumni

1) Ecologies of knowledge or collective ways of knowing:

 

This strand focuses on knowledge as a relational and ecological process rather than an individual or isolated act of cognition. It highlights interdisciplinary, collaborative, and distributed forms of knowledge production, emphasizing collective, networked, and processual modes of thinking and making.

This includes para-academic practices as well as locally embedded or “endemic” epistemologies, which emerge from specific cultural, social, and material contexts. The emphasis lies on alternative knowledge ecologies that challenge dominant institutional and disciplinary boundaries.

 

In that sense we welcome collective or collaborative working practices, which approache a chosen topic via new forms of knowledge production. Maybe you are looking for a space to test out workshop formats, collective research-methods or other forms of experimental knowledge production. Projects are encouraged to consider how knowledge can be communicated beyond institutional settings and contribute to public-facing exchange and dialogue with non-academic contexts.

 

2) Questions of knowledge production:

 

We are welcoming research projects that focus on the topic of critical knowledge production itself: How is knowledge created, shared, challenged, legitimized or contested?

This strand engages with issues of epistemic justice and injustice, including questions of who is recognized as a legitimate “knower” within dominant knowledge systems. It also critically examines the power dynamics embedded in epistemic infrastructures, such as processes of canon formation, archival practices, and mechanisms of visibility and invisibility.

 

In addition, it addresses non-discursive and more-than-textual forms of knowledge production, including embodied, situated, and affective epistemologies that exceed conventional academic frameworks.