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

Specifically, the incorporation of HacTe into the Barcelona Crea Scholarships programme materialises with the Knowing-Not-Knowing: Territories Àrids research line, which seeks to promote projects that are in the initial 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 one or more members of HacTe during an intensive two-month residency between February and the end of March 2026, following a schedule agreed between the participating entities and the researcher.