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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