Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU) is a Creative Europe Cooperation project tackling socio-ecological challenges through cross-disciplinary research and context-specific artistic interventions. Drawing on the Zapatista concept of the pluriverse—"a world where many worlds fit"—the project embraces diverse ways of knowing and living, foregrounding buen vivir (social well-being), communal interdependence, and the relationships between human and more-than-human entities. 

The project includes a program of residencies (SIT-RES) happening in 2026 and 2027, where artists and creative practitioners selected through this open call will be invited to engage with a specific context (social, geographical, historical) for one year and develop new forms of creative intervention/cultural mediation.

The four organisations hosting the residencies are:

• Baltan Laboratories (NL) will work with Landpark Assisië in Biezenmortel, a residential environment for approximately 250 people with intellectual disabilities; 

• Lungomare (IT) will engage with the riverscapes in Bolzano; 

• Idensitat (ES) will explore the theme of sacrifice zones, focusing upon neighbourhoods in the metropolitan area near the mouth of the Besos river;

• ZEMOS98 (ES) will collaborate with the MediNat community, a diverse group of citizens debating the consequences of installing massive renewable energy parks in the north of Spain.

Lungomare’s Residency program: Riverscapes and their ecological interconnections

The artistic residencies at Lungomare will focus on Liquid Territories as learning sites within FLUX – River Interventions and Explorations. The selected artist, urban practitioner, or collective will work on site-specific interventions addressing the river’s ecological, cultural, and social dimensions.

General Conditions

SIT-RES 2026 starts in January 2026 and SIT-RES 2027 in November 2026.The selected residents will receive an artist fee of €13,500 (travel excluded) and a production budget. Each institution details the terms and conditions of each specific residency/context, including the intended role of the artist, payment, production budgets and minimum requirements, in separate attachments to the general open call.

About SIT-PLU

SIT-PLU stems from acknowledging that we cannot address contemporary crises using the same categories that originated them. Arts and culture can be significant triggers for contributing to new perspectives emerging and taking hold, but, for doing so, a particular approach should be explored: one in which creative practitioners (and researchers) take on ‘situated’ approaches. 

SIT-PLU is a medium-scale Creative Europe cooperation project involving the following partners: LUCA School of Arts (BE), Floating University (DE), ZEMOS98 (ES), Idensitat (ES), Lungomare (IT), Baltan Laboratories (NL), EINA (ES), Universitat Politècnica de València (ES). SIT-PLU is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.