A Radical, Transdisciplinary and Urgent
Program
First Edition 2027 (1 year)
Open Call Deadline Extended - October 18
100% Online
Over the course of one year, 25 participants from different geographies will share an intensive journey through six thematic axes offering tools to think and act on what the present still cannot explain: ruins → bodies → languages → borders → holograms → futures.
Faculty
The faculty of
This transdisciplinary composition is not accidental; it reflects our conviction that the urgent questions we want to address cannot be resolved from a single field of knowledge, but require a dialogue between contextualized, sensitive, and at times contradictory ways of thinking and creating.
Peruvian writer, poet, and chronicler based in Spain, recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary Latin American literature. Her work explores the body, identity, colonialism, and gender, and has received major international awards. She writes from the first person as a method: turning intimacy into a place to think through colonial heritage and the ways desire, race, and power become entangled.
Argentine politician, known for having been the youngest legislator in the history of Latin America. A leading figure of Patria Grande, she also develops audiovisual projects addressing social and political issues from a contemporary perspective.
Kurdish-Turkish conceptual artist based between Amsterdam and Istanbul. His multidisciplinary practice addresses migration and institutional critique, often with humor; he represented Turkey at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Researcher and international reference in artificial intelligence, digital ethics, and human rights, affiliated with Tecnológico de Monterrey, Harvard, and UNESCO.
American scholar and author, professor at Columbia University, a world reference in queer theory and trans studies. Author of "Female Masculinity" and "The Queer Art of Failure."
Collective founded in 2000 by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel, recognized for redefining the boundaries of contemporary theater. Their works combine immersive formats, participatory devices, and collaborations with specialists whose expertise comes from fields beyond theater.
National General Secretary of AMMAR and one of the leading advocates for sex workers' rights in the country. She founded Casa Roja, a community assistance center, and is the author of Puta Feminista and Vidas de Putas.
Her work explores memory, sexual difference, class, and forms of belonging from a critical perspective. She is the author of books such as PornoBurka and Pensamiento Monógamo Terror Poliamoroso, and has built a notable career in writing, dramaturgy, and international research..
Colombian biologist, former director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute and rector of EAN University. A world reference in biodiversity and sustainability, and the first trans woman to lead a university in Colombia.
One of Latin America's most acclaimed writers, a contributor to international outlets such as El País, Gatopardo, and Granta. Author of an extensive body of work translated into several languages, she has received notable awards for books such as La llamada.
Co-directs the Forensic Architecture office in Athens and teaches forensic and investigative architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths). She specializes in spatial analysis and digital reconstruction of scenes of state violence and environmental crimes.
Mathematician, independent-living activist, and leading advocate for the rights of people with functional diversity. He has driven artistic and audiovisual projects such as Yes, We Fuck and Vivir y otras ficciones, focused on inclusion and diversity.
An artistic duo based in Europe working across performance, theater, choreography, and writing. They research the body, violence, memory, and fiction, and are central collaborators on the Trilogia Cadela Força, created by Bianchi together with her company CARA DE CAVALO. In 2025, Bianchi was awarded the Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale of Dance.
Philosopher, CONICET researcher, and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She works on the matter of art through the philosophies of animality, plant life, and mineral life (from a post-anthropic perspective).
Activist, writer, and leading figure of the Mapuche Nation. Known for her defense of territories, Indigenous rights, and Buen Vivir. Founder of several organizations and movements, she is the author of El tren del olvido and Terricidio, works translated into several languages.
One of Chile's most prominent actors, internationally recognized for his roles in film and television, he has starred in films by directors such as Pablo Larraín and received awards including the Platino and the Biznaga de Plata. His work approaches the body as archive: a place where memory, power, and collective wounds become scenic material, and from which acting becomes a way of reading the present.
Consultant, researcher, and educator specializing in political ecology and education for sustainability. Author of more than thirty books, she links research with work on ecological transition policy through the Garúa cooperative and various Spanish universities. Her perspective starts from an uncomfortable fact: material life depends on biophysical limits that modernity learned to ignore.
Research agency founded in 2010 by Eyal Weizman at Goldsmiths, University of London. It brings together architects, artists, filmmakers, and scientists who use architecture as a tool to investigate state violence and environmental crimes.
CONICET researcher and leading figure of Ni Una Menos. Her work focuses on the indebtedness of women and dissidents, and the relationship between gender-based violence and economic precarity. Co-author of Una lectura feminista de la deuda, she thinks of debt as a silent form of government: the point where finance enters domestic life, the body, and reproductive time.
Born in 2015 after a wave of femicides, it became a rallying cry echoed across Latin America against gender-based violence. More than a slogan, it functioned as a language-producing machine: it reorganized the categories used to name labor, debt, and desire, and made thinkable what had previously remained in the realm of the private.
Their work addresses ageism, queer theory, and contemporary forms of relating. Author of Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto, they are currently working on Trans Despair. Their thinking challenges the norms that order the timeline of life, age, partnership, or reproduction, to imagine bonds that don't answer to the calendar.
Professor at Louisiana State University, she was spokesperson for the LIGO project and led the team that detected gravitational waves in 2015, a discovery awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. Her work gave the universe a sound: it confirmed that spacetime vibrates and opened a new way of perceiving what no image could show.
Non-binary artist, choreographer, DJ, and activist of Algerian origin who uses dance as a political tool to question colonialism, fascism, and gender norms. Their work fuses identity, culture, and performance, notably in projects such as Decolonize the Dancefloor, also published as a book.
Since 2005, they have developed projects combining art, institutional critique, and performance, blurring the boundaries between disciplines and roles. Their practice questions the figure of the individual author: it makes shared work a method for thinking of identity as something built collectively.
Poet, translator specializing in classical literature, and professor of philosophy and critical thinking, she combines criticism with self-managed publishing. She thinks of the body as a battlefield of affects: she takes philosophy outside the text and turns it into a practice that is exercised, trained, and lived.
Archivo de la Memoria TransArgentina — Collective archive project
Gathers photographs, documents, and objects that recover the history of the Argentine trans and travesti community, built in the first person from collective memory. Facing a history marked by persecution and erasure, it turns preservation into an act of survival: keeping one's own image as a way of existing.
Julián Posada is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and co-director of the certificate in Computing, Culture, and Society at Yale University. His research examines the social and cultural dimensions of information, especially the role of labor and infrastructure in the development of artificial intelligence.
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The program combines intensive work sessions, collective dynamics, and the creation of a free final thesis-work, guided by one of the invited faculty.
CRAC does not seek to reach consensus or closed answers, but rather to open up questions from diverse - and even contradictory - perspectives, as a necessary condition for problematizing contemporary complexity.
Thematic Axes
The program brings together perspectives from different fields through six thematic axes, which function as a timeline.
CRAC — Cataclysm · Rules · Authority · Code | CRAC — Continuity · Reaction · Astuteness · Certainty | CRAC — Calm · Rupture · Anxiety · Creation | CRAC — Conviction · Renewal · Antenna · Complicity | CRAC — Care · Ruins · Amendment · Contradictions | CRAC — Contradictions · Routine · Action · Compilation | CRAC — Chaos · Replication · Accord · Chaos | CRAC — Corpus · Rupture · Antagonism · Calibration | CRAC — Creation · Reticulum · Algorithm · Collapse | CRAC — Cicatrix · Resistances · Automation · Cell | CRAC — Contingency · Reconciliation · Affect · Crisis | CRAC — Crash · Racket · Ambiguity · Circuit | CRAC — Crisis · Rules · Ambition · Community | CRAC — Custom · Reaction · Agency · Code | CRAC — Continuity · Rupture · Atom · Channel | CRAC — Calm · Renewal · Anomaly · Code | CRAC — Conviction · Ruins · Art · Certainty | CRAC — Care · Routine · Authority · Creation | CRAC — Contradictions · Replication · Astuteness · Complicity | CRAC — Chaos · Rupture · Anxiety · Contradictions | CRAC — Corpus · Reticulum · Antenna · Compilation | CRAC — Creation · Resistances · Amendment · Chaos | CRAC — Cicatrix · Reconciliation · Action · Calibration | CRAC — Contingency · Racket · Accord · Collapse | CRAC — Crash · Rules · Antagonism · Cell | CRAC — Crisis · Reaction · Algorithm · Crisis | CRAC — Custom · Rupture · Automation · Circuit | CRAC — Continuity · Renewal · Affect · Community | CRAC — Calm · Ruins · Ambiguity · Code | CRAC — Conviction · Routine · Ambition · Channel | CRAC — Care · Replication · Agency · Code | CRAC — Contradictions · Rupture · Atom · Certainty | CRAC — Chaos · Reticulum · Anomaly · Chaos | CRAC — Corpus · Resistances · Art · Complicity | CRAC — Creation · Reconciliation · Authority · Contradictions | CRAC — Cicatrix · Racket · Astuteness · Compilation | CRAC — Contingency · Rules · Anxiety · Creation | CRAC — Crash · Reaction · Antenna · Calibration |
Why
Contemporary crises don't just change the world: they change the narratives we use to read it, and the forms of power and collective organization. In a context where inherited categories seem insufficient to read the present, it becomes necessary to cultivate new tools of orientation in the face of large-scale technological, ecological, economic, and political transformations.
CRAC is produced by DIP, an independent, self-managed platform for film education that explores intimacy as a political language. After five years of work, we felt the need to expand our limits and open new questions. If DIP was a space of refuge, encounter, and creation around cinema, this proposes a territory where multiple simultaneous perspectives intersect, and where thought, art, and action intertwine to read the present and rehearse upon it.
The name condenses that paradox: the sound of something that appears to collapse, but is also a starting point.
This is how
By activating the friction between perspectives and disciplines,
CRAC — Cataclysm · Rules · Authority · Code | CRAC — Continuity · Reaction · Cunning · Certainty | CRAC — Calm · Rupture · Anxiety · Creation | CRAC — Conviction · Renewal · Antenna · Complicity | CRAC — Care · Ruins · Compost · Contradictions | CRAC — Contradictions · Routine · Action · Compilation | CRAC — Chaos · Replication · Harmony · Chaos | CRAC — Bodies · Rupture · Antagonistic · Calibration | CRAC — Creation · Network · Algorithm · Collapse | CRAC — Scars · Resistances · Automation · Cell | CRAC — Contingency · Reconciliation · Affect · Crisis | CRAC — Fall · Noise · Ambiguity · Circuit | CRAC — Crisis · Rules · Ambition · Community | CRAC — Habit · Reaction · Agency · Quantum | CRAC — Continuity · Rupture · Atom · Riverbed | CRAC — Calm · Renewal · Anomaly · Code | CRAC — Conviction · Ruins · Art · Certainty | CRAC — Care · Routine · Authority · Creation CRAC — Contradictions · Replication · Cunning · Complicity | CRAC — Chaos · Rupture · Anxiety · Contradictions | CRAC — Bodies · Network · Antenna · Compilation | CRAC — Creation · Resistances · Compost · Chaos | CRAC — Scars · Reconciliation · Action · Calibration | CRAC — Contingency · Noise · Harmony · Collapse | CRAC — Fall · Rules · Antagonistic · Cell | CRAC — Crisis · Reaction · Algorithm · Crisis | CRAC — Habit · Rupture · Automation · Circuit | CRAC — Continuity · Renewal · Affect · Community | CRAC — Calm · Ruins · Ambiguity · Quantum | CRAC — Conviction · Routine · Ambition · Riverbed | CRAC — Care · Replication · Agency · Code | CRAC — Contradictions · Rupture · Atom · Certainty | CRAC — Chaos · Network · Anomaly · Chaos | CRAC — Bodies · Resistances · Art · Complicity | CRAC — Creation · Reconciliation · Authority · Contradictions | CRAC — Scars · Noise · Cunning · Compilation | CRAC — Contingency · Rules · Anxiety · Creation | CRAC — Fall · Reaction · Antenna · Calibration
Who CRAC
is for
An academic degree is not required to apply: background, practical experience, and affinity with the program's axes will be valued.
Applications are open to those who:
- want to think about and act on today's contradictory, ever-changing world;
- seek to work with perspectives and languages different from their own, and to hold contradiction as part of the process;
- want to share collaborative and horizontal processes.
CRAC will select an international and diverse group of participants, prioritizing the crossing of situated trajectories and experiences as a constitutive part of the program.
Forensic Architecture, Brigitte Baptiste, Ofelia Fernández, Jack Halberstam, Leila Guerriero, Brigitte Vasallo, Ni Una Menos, Carolina Bianchi & Carolina Mendonça, Archivo de la Memoria Trans, Alfredo Castro, Rimini Protokoll, Moira Millán, Leonor Silvestri, Antonio Centeno, Simon(e)Van Saarloos, Georgina Orellano, Gabriela González, Habibitch, Rosa Chancho, Gabriela Wiener, Paula Fleisner, Paola Ricaurte, Yayo Herrero, Ahmet Ögüt
Director CRAC
Manuel Abramovic
Head of Studies CRAC
María Kolodynski
The overall structure of the diploma program is organized as an active journey: practical seminars → mentorships → final project → showcase. A journey that doesn't accumulate content in a linear way, but instead builds, session by session, situated tools for thinking about and acting on a present in constant transformation.
Diploma Program Structure
27 Practical Seminars
March - October 2027
Classes are held twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:00–22:00 CET - Spain time).
The seminars are organized into six thematic blocks: ruins → bodies → languages → borders → holograms → futures.
Each of the 27 guest instructors will lead a practical seminar of 2 or 3 sessions. Each session begins with the instructor introducing their trajectory, ideas, and questions, and then proposes a concrete exercise that puts those concepts into action.
These are not lectures or talks to be listened to while seated. Creative action functions as a tool for thought: each instructor proposes their own exercises as a way of processing and working through the ideas they bring. One doesn't think first and illustrate afterward; one thinks by doing. Contradiction and friction between perspectives become method.
Each instructor has their own CRAC. And each participant, by the end, defines their own.
November 2027
The final work is not an academic thesis. It is a practical thesis-work: an essay, a video, an action, a song, an archive, a bill, a performance, a piece, a party, an app, a text, a website, a protocol, a demonstration, an electoral campaign, a video game, an image, or any new form the year may have opened up.
December 2027
CRAC proposes a new way of studying and learning: the seminars are built on participatory pedagogies in which students are the active protagonists.
In a present that mutates at a dizzying speed, traditional forms of training -confined to a single field of knowledge along a linear path- are no longer enough to think through contemporary complexity.
Tuition
Program cost
8 installments of €490
+ 1 enrollment fee of €490
Tuition includes:
- Participation in all 62 live sessions and seminars, with a total course load of 284 hours.
- Two individual mentorship sessions to support the final project, led by one of CRAC's faculty members.
- Production support for the final project (€300, subject to meeting attendance requirements)
- Participation in the final online showcase
- Administrative and general coordination costs for the program.
Scholarships
Scholarships will be granted to broaden access for people historically underrepresented in this kind of training program. The diversity of voices, geographies, disciplines, languages, and experiences is central to the spirit of CRAC. A limited number of full and partial scholarships are offered to support participants with limited financial resources.
We especially encourage Latin American people residing in Latin America, and people from historically marginalized groups from any territory, to apply for scholarships.
Scholarships will be granted only to those who truly need them in order to participate.
Full scholarship
Covers the full tuition of the program, allowing access regardless of economic constraints. Recipients of this scholarship will collaborate with CRAC on tasks related to documentation, outreach, or editing of the collective project and the program's final publication.
Half scholarship
Covers 50% of the program's tuition, to support participants with a solid track record who require financial assistance. Recipients of this scholarship will collaborate with CRAC on specific documentation activities during the process or support for the final publication.
Those applying for a scholarship must complete the specific scholarship form, briefly describing their financial situation and level of need.
Documentation for Local Financial Aid
For selected participants without a scholarship who may be able to access financial aid in their own countries, CRAC will provide the necessary official documentation (letter of invitation or other documents).
DIP and Sentimientos Encontrados Alumni
CRAC will reserve a number of exclusive spots for alumni of the DIP and Sentimientos Encontrados programs, who will also receive a 5% discount on the program's tuition, or a 10% discount for a single upfront payment.