Are you a mid-career artist, designer, or creative with 5-10 years of experience in architecture, design, or spatial practice, whose work is dedicated to (re)imaging the future of your African city? You are invited to apply to the Building Beyond Mentorship Programme 2023 and define the future of public space and community in your city by activating the imagined possibilities of your localised context.
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Building Beyond brings together 12 experienced designers, creatives, and artists over the course of a year to foster conversation, collaboration, and exchange within the cohort; to support each participant in their own individual practice; and to facilitate exchanges between the cohort and relevant external practitioners. They support practices that engage with challenges related to your city’s public space and communities to propose alternative ideas and methods that align the physical city with the realities and imaginations of the lived city.
They seek to foster locally-rooted, critical design practices, and cultural productions that challenge ideas of space and citizenship, reaffirm agency, and restate ownership. Building Beyond is an alternative educational structure where you come together with your peers to reflect on your practice, activate your practice within your local context, and gather ideas and universalities from different urban contexts – aimed at reimagining the future of your contexts and continent.
Eligibility Criteria
- You have ±5-12 years of relevant professional experience.
- You are from, living, and working in Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Chad, South Africa, or South-Sudan.
- And you are an artist, designer, or creative whose individual practice relates to design, public space, architecture, activism, policy, and the digital space.
Offered Benefits
- The programme consists of peer group sessions, guest speaker sessions, and two in-person intensives in the form of ‘Lab Weeks’—one in the African continent, and one in the Netherlands—where there will be further opportunities for exchange and to build your network.
- In addition to this, each participant receives an award of €10,000 and guidance from mentors to work on the concept for a body of work that is outlined in their application.
Application Process
Go to Prince Claus Funds on princeclausfund.awards platform.com to applyThe application includes questions relating to your involvement in the mentorship programme, your practice, and the concept outline of work to be developed within the mentorship. They also ask for a portfolio of previous work, C.V. and references, and a pitch video.?
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See also
The AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Science
PAGES 2023 Inter-Africa Mobility Research Fellowship Program Scholarships
Next Titan 2023 Africa“s Regional Auditions for African Entrepreneurs Scholarships
MISF 2023 Du Pré Grants for Multiple Sclerosis ResearchersRegional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) 2023-2024 PhD Scholarships
