Culture Hack Labs (CHL) is calling for applications from narrative practitioners, artists, journalists, storytellers, or activists working at the intersection of culture change and regenerative solutions for the nine-month Rhizome Fellowship, designed to equip participants with tools for narrative-led systems change.
They work with pathways that emerged from the research series Beyond the Carbon Fixation: Pathways to Regenerative Futures, which sets out to find pathways to liberate land, waters, ecosystems, and communities from the enclosures of capitalism and colonialism. When interwoven, they serve as a navigational tool for systems change:
- Restoring Justice, Restoring Life
- Economies of Regeneration
- Land Back to Right Relationship
- Bioregional Community Governance
- Healing the Spirit, Healing the Earth
The Fellowship involves:
- 9-Month Process: Bi-weekly online sessions (May–December 2026)
- In-Person Gathering: Meet fellows and co-create collective strategies in Costa Rica, 22–28 October 2026
- Project Incubation: Develop a narrative hack with direct impact in your community (November–December 2026)
The Fellowship will provide tools to design and execute narrative interventions that disrupt extractive models, as well as mentorship and peer exchange with a global cohort of storytellers, organisers, and researchers.
Fellows must apply as a collective or organisation with at least two participants. The fellowship should support and be integrated into existing work or activism.
Each selected project receives a 9-month scholarship including learning sessions, personal advisory support, access to CHL tools and methodology, and all travel expenses to Costa Rica (visa, flights, accommodation, meals, and local transport).
