The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture invites applications for a Research Residency taking place over the three-month period September – November 2022. The residency programme aims to explore the potential of networked infrastructures for archival practices in design and digital culture. What might we learn by archiving these domains through decentralised structures? What tensions might such approaches uncover? And what challenges might they pose? Proposals addressing these issues can be submitted until the 10th of April 2022 (23:59 CET). Two residency positions will be awarded, with a stipend of 5,000 euros each.
About
The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture aims towards a sustainable and accessible approach to archiving design and digital culture heritage in the Dutch context. In practice, these fields lack systematic archiving efforts. Knowledge and expertise in these domains, as well as the archival material itself, is scattered. Set up as a partnership, the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture adopts a decentralised approach to tackling this issue.
This Research Residency programme invites researchers, theorists, artists, designers, developers, archivists and others with an affinity for the field(s) to critically examine the potential of networked infrastructures for archival practices in design and digital culture. What might we learn by archiving these domains through decentralised structures? What tensions might such approaches uncover? And what challenges might they pose?
Departing from these questions, this residency asks applicants to view ‘the archive’ as a part of a decentralised system and reflect on ways in which it might be approached and used as a result.
Application requirements
Send your application to nadd@hetnieuweinstituut.nl. Your application should include:
- A self-introduction: video (maximum 2 mins) or text (maximum 300 words). In the case of video, please include a link to the video file, along with necessary access codes where applicable.
- A research project proposal: text (maximum 500 words) and images (up to 10). Please mention specific archives that you aim to focus on in your research project. If any of these are not hosted at one of the partnering institutions listed above, please indicate how you plan to access them.
- A proposed working calendar and methodology (maximum 400 words).
- Contact information (full name, country of residence, email address, phone number)
Applications, including all supplementary material, should be submitted by attachment as a single PDF, consisting of a maximum of five A4 pages. The file name should include your name and the research proposal title in the format: APPLICANTNAME_PROJECTTITLE.pdf
All submitted material should be in English or Dutch. There is no entry fee for the call.
Applications may be submitted from the 17th of February to the 10th of April 2022, 23:59 CET.
For more information about this open call, please refer to the website of organization.
