A diploma program
Radical, Transdisciplinary and Urgent
First Edition 2027 (1 year)
Open Call closed on 18.10.26
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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.
Teaching
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.
Kwan LeeChina — Sociologist
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
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.