Open Call • Artistic Residency • Pisa - October 2026
What would you design if the data collection was an experience?
We are looking for 10 creative professionals under the age of 30 to spend 10 days in Pisa experimenting with a question that sits at the heart of contemporary cultural practice: How do you get to know your audience without reducing them to a number?
The residency
This October, we are running a week-long Artistic Research and Development Residency in Pisa (Italy): and we want to see you there!
The residency is built around a simple but radical idea: data collection can be a creative act.
We call them info-experiences: participatory, artist-designed interactions that generate real insight about audiences, without feeling like a survey.
Over 10 days, participants will work in small interdisciplinary teams, attend workshops led by practitioners and researchers from across Europe, and design and test their own info-experience prototypes in real cultural contexts.
The artistic residency will take place at the Internet Festival (8th-11th October, Pisa), then outputs will move toward a larger implementation at the Estonian National Museum in 2027.
Quick facts
- 📅 Dates:
- 1st–10th October 2026
- 📍 Location:
- Pisa, Italy
- 🌍 Open to:
- Residents of EU Member States
- 🎓 Who:
- Creative professionals between 18 and 30 years old
- 💰 Cost:
- Free. Travel, accommodation, and meals covered.
- ⏰ Deadline:
- 31st May 2026
What you'll do
- Attend workshops and lectures
- from practitioners in data visualisation, information design, and audience research.
- Work in small teams to design four info-experience prototypes:
- each tackling a different approach to creative data collection.
- Build and test prototypes live
- at the Internet Festival in front of real audiences
- Work toward a larger-scale implementation
- at the Estonian National Museum in 2027.
How to apply
Applications open on 16th April and close on 31st May 2026.
To apply, submit the dedicated application form in English, remembering to prepare:
- CV
- (max. 2 pages)
- Motivation letter
- (max. 1 page)
- Portfolio
- (max. 10 pages if portfolio is online please collect the link(s) into a pdf file)
- Brief description of your field of work
- (max. 500 characters, spaces included)
Join the artistic residency
What would you design if the data collection was an experience?
Questions? Contact us at info@dataconversations.eu
About the project
Data Conversations (CREA-CULT-2024-COOP, GAP-101173136) is a Creative Europe co-funded project running from March 2025 to November 2027. The consortium brings together Fondazione Sistema Toscana (Italy), Domestic Data Streamers (Spain), Malmö University (Sweden), Estonian National Museum (Estonia), IN2 Digital Innovations (Germany), and Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy).
Get in touch
We’d love to hear from you! Whether you’re a cultural organisation, creative professional, policymaker, or just curious about the project, reach out to us for more information, collaboration opportunities, or media inquiries.
- Project Lead
- Project Lead: Fondazione Sistema Toscana (FST)
- Address
- Europe-wide initiative with a central coordination office in:
Via Duca D'Aosta 9
50129 Firenze • Italy