Opportunity: Creative Collaborative Placements
The Creative Collaborative Placements programme is being run as part of the PLACE Collective’s involvement in the LUNZ Hub’s Transdisciplinary Work Package (WP2). The programme gives a framework for artists to join specialists from research, practice and policy, and to develop work in response to a specified topic in the context of land use change.
There will be four Creative Collaborative Placements, one in each of the four nations. This open call is for applications from artists in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The England placement has been appointed; all four will be announced in the autumn.
Key Information
Deadline for Applications: August 22, 5pm. By email.
Research, practice and production of work: November 2025 – May 2026
Award: £5000
Note: To apply for a placement, your artistic practice needs to be based in the relevant country.
Wales
Patchwork: connecting small scale changes to the bigger national ambition for land use
Liaising with Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor
Scotland
The earth beneath our feet: understanding, regenerating, connecting
Liaising with The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen
Northern Ireland
Livestock, Land and Livelihoods
Liaising with The Agri Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough
The placements are an opportunity to use imaginative and novel artistic methods in transdisciplinary research, engagement and practice within and beyond the LUNZ Hub. The artists will be connected with specialists involved in academic research, land use practice and policy in a process intended to stimulate questions and a critical re-evaluation of knowledges, narratives and systems across and between disciplines, and allow for playful and/or bold imaginaries and Aha! moments.
We welcome applications from artist practitioners working in any medium or combination of media, including, but not limited to: visual art, illustration, photography, poetry (as text, audio or visual), film, audio, performance, sculpture, textile, movement, social practice.
The LUNZ Hub is proud to be part of a vibrant, multicultural community that celebrates diversity and welcomes people from all backgrounds. We particularly encourage artists from under-represented groups to apply to this programme, including global majority candidates and those who identify as having a disability; however, all applications will be considered strictly on individual merit. We are looking for quality, ambition and imagination, and will be considering all applications in the context of essential and desirable criteria, listed with further details, in the documents below.
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