The Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) and HacTe are launching a new call within the Beca Barcelona Crea programme aimed at supporting initial transdisciplinary research processes.

Specifically, HacTe once again participates for the second consecutive edition in the Barcelona Crea Scholarships program with the research line Knowing-Not-Knowing: Arid Territories. It seeks to promote projects that are in the early stages of development – such as ideation, research, prototyping or testing – and that require an inherently transdisciplinary work environment for their maturation.

Knowing-Not-Knowing embodies a framework of multiple research, a dynamic epistemological form of being and knowing, rather than a fixed approach; a flow of enriching interaction, rather than a problem to be solved; an ability to catalyze difference, rather than a lack. It heralds collaborative experimentation, building a space of possibilities born of the tension inherent in the various disciplinary approaches to knowledge.

The call will consider incipient research projects around the concept of arid territories that need the transdisciplinary context offered by HacTe for their development. The selected project will be carried out in collaboration with the members of the HacTe Association during an intensive three-month residency between September and November 2026, following a schedule agreed between the participating entities and the researcher.