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2 Material Research Fellowships 2025

Mon 2 SEPT 2024

In the framework of the Future Materials programme, the Jan van Eyck Academie is accepting applications for 1 Fashion & Textile Material Fellowship and 1 Future Materials Fellowship both lasting 11 months.

Deadline: 2 September 2024
Residency period: 15 January – 15 December 2025

Images: Mari Koppanen

Future Materials at the Jan van Eyck Academie aims to support environmentally conscious art and design practices by conducting research and disseminating knowledge on sustainable non-toxic materials. The long-term programme promotes sustainable alternatives to fossil-based or toxic materials commonly used in arts and design with the aim to foster ecologically mindful approaches in these creative fields.

Working among a cohort of some 35 artists, designers, curators, writers, and other creative minds, will provide the two Research Fellows with insights into the daily complexities of the transition towards sustainable materials, as well as the opportunity to exchange with and learn from a multitude of practices spanning the world.

These two material research positions are supported by the Regio Deal Zuid-Limburg, more specifically the programme strand called Circular Economy and Society / Workspace Circular Textile.
 

Fashion & Textile Material Fellowship 

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The Fashion & Textile Material Fellowship supports an existing research project exploring sustainable and circular material approaches to fashion and/or textile materials with the overall objective to encourage the transition to more ecological and sustainable fashion systems. The projects might concern, but should not be limited to, sustainable textile fibers, dyes, or other materials being used in the making of garments; experimental material research that can shift dominant cultural views and perceptions of fashion; material projects that influence the cultural, social, political, economic dimensions of the fashion industry.

The selected candidate will be offered the opportunity to develop their project with the expertise and facilities of the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF) and specifically from the research group Technology Driven Art Maastricht Institute of Arts (Zuyd Hogeschool).

Future Materials Fellowship 

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The Future Materials Fellowship aims to support an existing project featuring a material or a materials process applicable in a broad range of creative practices and/or offer a viable alternative to common toxic or not easily recyclable fossil-based materials used in arts and design (epoxy resins, fossil-based polymers, plaster, inks, pigments, and others).

The selected candidate will be offered the opportunity to develop their project with the expertise and facilities of the Jan van Eyck Academie, CHILL at Brightlands Chemelot Campus, and the Centre for Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths (University of London).

The selected Research Fellows will be invited to embed their enhanced understanding in the development of their material projects with the support of the Future Materials Lab, Material Matters, Food, Printing & Publishing, Photography & Audiovisual, and the Library. Next to the expertise of the external partners, the Fellows can tap into the extended network of the Regio Deal Zuid-Limburg / Circular Economy and Society that clusters research institutes, companies, workshops, and start-ups pioneering in circular and bio-based materials research and production operating in the region. Convening such diverse partners as Zuyd Hogeschool, AMIBM, ARAPAHA, Fibrant, The Sufi Studio, Circular Makers Space Maastricht (CMM), DenimX and T Attelier among others, the programme aims to advance regional capacity building.

The results of these research fellowships will be presented during the Jan van Eyck Open Studios 2025, and the two projects will eventually be included in the Future Materials Bank.

Calendar

• Application deadline: 2 September 2024
• Announcement of the selected candidates: mid-October 2024
• Fellowship period: 15 January 2025 – 15 December 2025