The CitiObs project together with the Distributed Design Platform invites artists, designers, makers, and creative practitioners to submit proposals to collaborate with the project as external service providers. This open call aims to contract creative professionals to develop and implement artistic and participatory actions that engage communities in environmental monitoring and citizen science activities connected to air quality and environmental observation.
The organisers are interested in practices that operate at the intersection of arts, design, making, and citizen science, and that treat environmental challenges as cultural, social, and political questions as much as technical ones. The call is intentionally broad. Diverse formats, scales, and positions are welcome, as are proposals that are situated, experimental, and critical.
This open call is global. The organisers are interested in work emerging from different geographies and contexts, recognising that environmental issues are locally experienced yet globally entangled. Up to five projects will be accepted.
In addition to the funded projects, up to ten additional projects that are not selected for the financial support may still be invited to present their work on the Distributed Design platform website.
This call is open to individual artists, designers, makers, collectives, studios, and cultural practitioners. Experience working with communities, environmental themes, or participatory processes is desirable.
Maximum available budget for the service is 3,000 EUR. The service may include travel and production costs where relevant and pre-approved.
