Call for Applications: PhD Programme 2026, Transart Institute for Creative Research

He Jin Jang as part of the Liverpool Residency, July 2024. Photo: Aleks Slota.

Transart Institute is seeking creative researchers who can contribute to our transdisciplinary research constellations. These include (but are not limited to): Materialism & Ecological Praxis, Algorithmic & Generative Media, Somatics & Corporeality, Sonic Landscapes, Critical Urbanism & Spatial Praxis, Historiography & Speculative Futures, Radical Pedagogy & Institutional Praxis, Making Public, Crafting Media, Interfaces & Technologies, and Life Studies. A full list of the constellations and sub-specialisms is available on our website.

In response to growing visa challenges, we now offer our degrees entirely online, but with a warm invitation to join our in-person events. Our Nexus Events will convene in spring in Berlin to network, present, collaborate, partner with other researchers and organisations, and to attend Documenta 16; we will also meet in the fall with a symposium and extended walkshop in London.

Kim Robertson as part of the Nairobi Residency, January 2024. Photo: Aleks Slota.

Our PhD is offered in an optionally accelerated and extended model in which you undertake a substantial public-facing project through engaging your creative praxis with the doctoral research process. We provide bespoke academic mentorship and guidance throughout the programme, with advisors drawn from Transart’s extensive faculty network. Unlike other programmes, we also enable you to invite external experts to join your advisory team to accompany you through your doctoral journey.

Our collaborative, supportive environment includes monthly advisor and peer research group meetings and guest faculty-led group Intensive sessions, all held online and designed to encourage peer-to-peer engagement. Even after your formal engagement with Transart Institute ends, you will remain an integral part of our ever-expanding community of researchers.

Later this year, we are also launching a new MRes in Creative Praxis (pending validation) and will also offer a “by portfolio/publication” PhD route in exceptional cases.

Apply at www.transart.org

Deadline: October 31, 2026

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