Different minds, one question
Twice a year, the Residency brings specialists from different fields to Qatar to work together on one question, hosted by partners across the country.
How it works
Each residency starts from a question that matters to how we live, learn and imagine, not from a discipline or a brief. CAI invites the people best placed to work on it, often people who would rarely share a room: an artist and a clinician, a craftsperson and a data scientist.
Residents work alone or in mixed teams, hosted by a museum, heritage site, studio or lab. A residency can last from a few days of workshops to up to a year, wherever the question needs. There are two core residencies a year, in spring and autumn, and each one leads to an outcome.
For its first years, the Residency is by invitation. Over time it will open to proposals through the Open Call.
What residents receive
Time
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 after the residency ends.
Residents 2027
Spring and autumnOpen Call
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