As part of Terra Culture’s broader programming, the Terra Culture Residency is an online, interdisciplinary space for learning, connection, and collective inquiry. The residency supports practitioners, researchers, and thinkers from across fields β€” including art, law, policy, science, and culture β€” to explore new ways of thinking and working together in relation to land, ecology, and living systems. It functions both as a shared learning environment and as a space for experimentation, exchange, and the incubation of emerging ideas.

Each year, Terra Culture brings together a small cohort of participants from diverse disciplines to form a vibrant, cross-field network. Over the course of the residency, participants cultivate generative relationships, engage in collective dialogue, and deepen their practices through conversation, reflection, and peer learning. Rooted in collaboration rather than hierarchy, the residency prioritizes process, curiosity, and the creation of long-term connections over predefined outcomes.

This inaugural year of the Terra Culture Residency is open to all who feel aligned with its values and approach. We especially welcome participants who are curious about working across disciplines and learning alongside others whose perspectives and methods may differ from their own.

RESIDENCY

At the core of the Terra Culture Residency is a shared inquiry shaped by each participant and expanded through dialogue with others in the cohort and the wider Terra Culture community. Rather than centering on a single required project or outcome, the residency invites participants to bring questions, interests, and areas of exploration that can evolve through collective learning and cross-disciplinary exchange.

Participants are invited to engage with guiding questions around culture, land, ecology, and living systems. These may include: How do we work across disciplines to better understand complex ecological and cultural challenges? What does it mean to think, govern, create, and care in ways that are relational rather than extractive? How might new forms of collaboration emerge between art, law, policy, science, and lived experience?

The residency runs online for a period of one to three months and unfolds through weekly live gatherings that bring the cohort together in a shared rhythm of engagement. These sessions may include facilitated conversations, participant-led presentations, collaborative exercises, workshops, and guest contributions from across disciplines. Rather than formal instruction, the programme emphasizes dialogue, listening, and mutual learning, creating space for participants to learn with and from one another.

Terra Culture seeks to cultivate a genuinely interdisciplinary cohort. Participants may arrive from very different fields, contexts, and ways of working, and there is no expectation that everyone speaks the same language or shares the same methods. One participant might explore legal or policy frameworks shaping land and environmental governance; another might examine ecological research through storytelling or artistic practice; another might bring community organizing, systems thinking, or speculative approaches into the space. These differences are not something to resolve, but something to learn from. Between sessions, participants are invited to engage in light reflective or exploratory exercises that support ongoing inquiry without requiring the production of finished work. 

PROGRAMME DESIGN

To apply for the Terra Culture Residency, please email the following materials to contact@terraculture.studio:

  • A brief cover letter introducing yourself, your background, and your interest in the residency

  • A CV or short bio outlining your experience (from any discipline)

  • Optional portfolio or work samples, which may include artistic work, writing, research, policy documents, or other relevant materials

There is no required format and no expectation of polished or finished work. We welcome applications from all disciplines and encourage submissions that reflect curiosity, experimentation, and a desire to learn alongside others.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis / by the stated deadline. Selected participants will be contacted directly.

APPLICATION PROCESS