Call for Residencies at the Milieux Institute

Posted on | by Fanny Latreille-Beaumont

On a Rolling Basis

The Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology at Concordia University offers residency opportunities exclusively for Hexagram Network co-investigators, collaborators, and student members.

Encouraging the sharing of expertise and resources amongst the Network, this program aims at recognizing and promoting Hexagram’s research-creation activities and supporting the development of members’ projects, particularly in their experimentation, implementation, dissemination, and documentation phases.  

The Milieux Institute offers a bilingual research environment and welcomes projects lasting two weeks to three months. The residency program is hosted across the following centers, labs, and clusters: Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG); the Speculative Life Cluster; the Speculative Life Biolab; the Textiles & Materiality Cluster; the MaSH Lab; the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC); and the Post Image Cluster.

Selected applicants can be eligible to Hexagram’s DEMO program that offers a stipend to supports the documentation and dissemination of research-creation projects.

Eligibility

  • Projects submitted must align with Hexagram’s mission and with a specific work environment (cluster, center, lab, group) at the Milieux Institute.
  • Projects submitted by students or Hexagram collaborators must be supervised by a Network co-investigator (see the list)
  • Student members’ projects are eligible only if conducted within the process of research-creation leading to a thesis or research activities related to their studies.

Selection Criteria

  • Relevance to Hexagram’s mission and objectives.
  • The completeness, consistency and clarity of the proposal and project needs.
  • Feasibility according to the host structure, skills involved, resources requested, and funding or support already obtained towards the project.
  • The number of Hexagram members (co-investigators, collaborators, and students) involved and the quality of their participation.
  • The impact and outreach of the project in academic circles or in practice settings.
  • The project’s commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Specific Terms and Conditions

  • To manage the workload of technical staff, occupancy of premises and sharing of equipment, the residency’s specific schedule will be determined by the host cluster in collaboration with the applicant.
  • Each residency should conclude with a public outreach activity presented to the Concordia and Hexagram community.
  • Communication material and documentation to be circulated by Hexagram on various platforms must be provided at the end of each residency.

How to Apply

No deadline: applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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For further information, please send your questions to karine.schuttkimpton@concordia.ca.

Published on Tuesday, Octobre 2, 2025

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