BAD 2025 OPEN CALL DISCONTINUED
To our regret, we have to close the open call for the BAD Award 2025 - and discontinue the competition.
Date
22 February 2025
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22 March 2025
To ensure a possible successful survival of the BAD Award, we are forced to recalibrate the farreaching collaboration-based design, organisation and funding that has been carrying it for many years. But the BAD network is cracking and in its current form is proving insufficiently resilient to outside influences.
Still, we believe strongly in the equal explorations of art, design and science. We see the strength of the many dozens of talented international creators who have been able to use the BAD Award as a springboard for their work over the past 15 years.
At a time when everything is rapidly and unpredictably changing, and both art and science are under enormous pressure, we need to re-examine tried-and-tested practices to allow them to evolve further.
The aim is to take a year for redesigning and rebuilding the BAD Award's valuable foundation for international art-science collaborations in a sustainable and future-proof way. For this, good partners and sufficient means are indispensable. This coming year, we need to therefore actively look for partners, parties and funds willing to join MU Hybrid Art House in this effort.
Do you know or are you a potential partner from culture, science, business or society, and would you like to join us in thinking about how we can continue interdisciplinary talent development in the field of bio art & design from 2026 onwards, please mail us at badaward@mu.nl
