Open Call Reclaiming Post-Industrial Futures
- Patrícia Koroknai
- Apr 11
- 1 min read
RECLAIMING POST-INDUSTRIAL FUTURES is a multi-residency project designed and developed by EUNIC Romania. It involves eight cultural institutions operating in Romania:
British Council
Czech Centre
Embassy of the Netherlands,
French Institute in Romania
Italian Cultural Institute
Cervantes Institute
Polish Institute
Fundația9
Who can apply: interdisciplinary artists, architecture historians, architects/landscape architects, anthropologists, community organisers
Eligibility: citizens or permanent residents from: Czech Republic, Italy, UK, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Romania
Period of residencies: two (2) weeks at various dates between July to September 2025
Place of residencies: post-industrial cities across Romania
Follow-up meeting: September 20-21, 2025, Bucharest
Submission deadline: 27 April 2025
RECLAIMING POST-INDUSTRIAL FUTURES is a project that works with various representative former industrial sites and communities, giving a birds-eye view on the local diversity and astonishing nature:
ORAȘUL VICTORIA – a garden-city built from scratch in the 1950s;
REȘIȚA – the oldest steel industry since the 18th century;
DROBETA TURNU-SEVERIN – an unused 19th century Shipyard next to a Roman site;
CÂMPINA – the world’s most modern pre-WW1 refinery;
TURNU MĂGURELE – a Danube port town laid out after a 1836 urban project;
PETRILA – the oldest mining site in the Jiu Valley;
And the hidden industrial layer of central BUCHAREST.
Read more and apply here.
