Inspiration Forum Lab (IF LAB) is an interdisciplinary research programme that connects artists and scientists in the creation of research-based multimedia projects on the topic of trajectories as both structural and metaphorical movements across time and space. It runs from October 2025 to June 2026, with final presentations September – October/November 2026.
The goal of the programme is to explore new ways of merging the languages of science and art, and to share knowledge with audiences across worlds that don’t usually intersect.
There are three overlapping lenses for exploration:
- Environmental trajectories
- Social trajectories
- Technological trajectories
Selected participants will have the opportunity to deepen both their theoretical and technical skills through lectures and hands-on workshops. They will form three interdisciplinary teams that will engage in collaborative research and develop their multimedia artistic projects. The final projects will be presented at the Display Gallery and at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
The Inspiration Forum of the Ji.hlava IDFF (Czech Republic), the Kersnikova Institute (Slovenia), and Sensorium (Slovakia) are inviting applicants from EU Member States in the fields of art, film and design as well as scientists and experts from other disciplines to search collaboratively for imaginative responses to the structural problems facing European society.
Conditions
- The IF LAB programme runs for nine months (from October 2025 to June 2026), with a subsequent project presentation in autumn 2026.
- Lectures and workshops will be held in Jihlava, Ljubljana, Bratislava, and online.
- Each participant will receive a stipend of 600 EUR.
- Each participant will be provided with accommodation and a contribution for travel (preferably by the most sustainable means of transport) for the meetings in Jihlava, Ljubljana, Bratislava, and the exhibition in Prague.
- Each group will have a production budget of 1,500 EUR.
