What gets built is rarely what was planned. Between the rendering and the finished building sit negotiations over budgets, regulations, labour, materials and politics. An “as-built” drawing records that gap, and it’s exactly where this Nomadic School begins.

MODEM (Debrecen) and FABER (Timișoara), through Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary, invite students and recent graduates in art, design, architecture and related fields to join a two-week nomadic programme of fieldwork, material experimentation and project development.

📍 Debrecen → Northern Hungary field-research location → Timișoara
🗓 1–14 February 2027 (arrival 31 January, dates provisional)
👥 16 participants

What to expect
Site visits to factories, construction sites and research centres. Conversations with tutors, curators and people working in the construction industry. Making, testing and proposal development, with a final presentation in Debrecen. No finished artworks required, and no prior knowledge of the region needed.

Who can apply
International BA and MA students, or graduates from the past five years, working in art, design, architecture or related fields. You need to be available for the full programme.

What’s covered
Travel (up to €500), accommodation, meals, local transfers, programme and workshop costs, plus a stipend for all 16 participants.

What’s next
Four participants will be selected to develop their proposals into new works for the As-Built exhibitions at FABER in Timișoara and MODEM in Debrecen, with curatorial support and a production budget.

How to apply
Complete the online application form with a short bio, a portfolio of up to 10 pages and five short questions. Your portfolio doesn’t need professional projects. We want to see how you observe, research, experiment and make.

⏳ Deadline: 22 November 2026
📣 Results: within two weeks after the deadline

👉Full call and application
👉 Open call brochure HERE
👉 Apply HERE

As-Built is the construction edition of Design Signals, part of TRANSMAT: Translocal Matters, co-financed by the European Union through Interreg VI-A Romania–Hungary

The content of this material does not necessarily represent the official position of the European Union.