Data Conversations for Impact are looking for 10 creative professionals under the age of 30 to spend 10 days in Pisa, Italy (1–10 October 2026), experimenting with a question that sits at the heart of contemporary cultural practice: How do you get to know your audience without reducing them to a number?
The residency is built around a simple but radical idea: data collection can be a creative act. Cultural and creative organisations (museums, festivals, theatres, galleries) often struggle to understand their audiences in meaningful ways. Existing data collection methods are often too technical, too impersonal, or simply inaccessible for many organisations. Data Conversations addresses this challenge by developing creative, participatory approaches to audience research.
Over 10 days, participants will work in small interdisciplinary teams, attend workshops led by practitioners and researchers from across Europe, and design and test their own info-experience prototypes in real cultural contexts.
The artistic residency will take place at the Internet Festival (8–11 October, Pisa), then outputs will move toward a larger implementation at the Estonian National Museum in 2027.
Applicants must be 18–30 years of age and they must be legal residents of an EU Member State.
Participation is free of charge. Expense contribution is provided to remove barriers to participation and ensure that professionals from across Europe can take part. FST (Fondazione Sistema Toscana) will organise and cover food and accommodation costs for all selected participants and will reimburse travel costs (up to 250–700 EUR).
