Have a question worth exploring?
CAI brings together people from every field to work on questions none of them could answer alone. Here is how to take part.
Register your interest
CAI begins by invitation. Tell us who you are and the question you'd like to explore, and we'll be in touch as opportunities open.
Register interest ↓Open call
Once a year, CAI will invite proposals for its spring and autumn residencies. Everyone who registers interest will hear first.
Who can take part
Anyone whose expertise can help answer the question. You can come alone or as a team. Many projects bring together people who would rarely share a room.
What we look for
Four things every CAI project sharesIt starts with a question
Not a discipline or a brief: a question that matters to how we live, learn and imagine.
It needs different minds
The question is one no single field could answer alone.
It leads somewhere
An artwork, a prototype, a curriculum, a public conversation, a policy idea, new knowledge.
It leaves something in Qatar
Skills, relationships and ideas that keep growing after the project ends.
How it works
From a question to what remains- 1
Share your question
Register interest now, or answer the open call.
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A conversation
We talk it through and find who else should be in the room.
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Selection
Two core residencies a year, in spring and autumn.
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Time to work
From short workshops to residencies of up to a year, wherever the question needs.
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What remains
We help the strongest ideas grow beyond the programme.
What CAI offers
Time, access and the freedom to experimentTime
To work on one question, without a fixed output.
Collections and expertise
Access to Qatar Museums' collections, archives and specialists.
Places to work
Museums, heritage sites, studios and labs across Qatar.
Tools
Shared labs and partner technologies, from fabrication to immersive media.
Support
[Allowance, travel and accommodation: to be confirmed]
A way forward
Help taking the strongest ideas into the world.
Register interest
Tell us your question.
It takes five minutes. Your profile can also connect you to residency and talent opportunities across Qatar.