THE SHAPESHIFTERS’ RESEARCH  RESIDENCY FOR YEARNING & AWE

is a three-month experimental research lab for yearning, awe, and cross-industry collaboration. Rooted at the intersections of art, science, and spirituality, it brings together six individuals/ three pairs from distinct disciplines, to explore a shared theme through dialogue, creative experimentation, and somatic inquiry.

Each residency invites participants to enter a process of shapeshifting: to dissolve the boundaries of expertise and ego, and to encounter creation as a space of mutual becoming. Whether pairing a policy-maker with a musician, a biologist with a poet, or a dancer with an economist, we seek what emerges when disciplines unlearn their separations and listen through one another.

The residency is both philosophical and embodied. It asks not only what we create but how we are transformed in the act of creating. By tending to internal landscapes (our nervous systems, our rhythms of attention, our relational fields) we explore the inner technologies that make collective imagination and future-building possible.

Each edition culminates in an Open Lab Day, where the residents share their processes through talks, performances, screenings, and presentations. These are not final exhibitions, but living gestures: temporary constellations that celebrate new ways of knowing and being together.

Our first edition, Ecologies of Survival (2026), will explore how resilience, adaptation, and remembrance unfold across human and more-than-human worlds. It asks: What does it mean to survive without hardening? How might survival itself become a creative, decolonial, and life-affirming practice?