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? We invite you to apply to the Building Beyond Mentorship Programme and define the future of public space and community in your city by activating the imagined possibilities of your localized context.
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, support each participant in their own individual practice, and facilitate exchanges between the cohort and relevant external practitioners. We 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. We seek to foster locally-rooted, critical design practices and cultural productions that challenge our ideas of space and citizenship, reaffirm agency, and restate ownership.
WORTH
- 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, each participant receives an award of €10.000 and guidance from mentors to work on the concept for a body of work outlined in their application.
- The Building Beyond Mentorship programme covers the costs related to the mentorship programme itself, including travel expenses and visa costs. Individuals are responsible for their own travel insurance.
ELIGIBILITY
- 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.
DEADLINE: June 15, 2023
To apply and for more information, apply here
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