Medialab Matadero opens the second call to participate in the five interdisciplinary working groups of the Collaborative Prototyping Lab residency on the theme of ‘Weird Futures’ that will take place 12 – 26 November 2025.
For Medialab prototyping means testing ideas through collaborative work. The laboratory consists of an intensive two-week residency in which 25 people, organised in interdisciplinary working groups, will develop five prototype proposals, along with their promoters and mentors Alex Quicho, Solveig Qu Suess, Joel Blanco and Medialab’s curator Bani Brusadin. Throughout the laboratory, open source standards and tools will be used as much as possible. The outcome will be available under Creative Commons licenses to foster further development, reuse, and distribution.
In addition, the resulting prototypes will be presented publicly in the framework of the OpenLAB Weird Futures festival that will take place at Medialab Matadero 27 – 29 November 2025.
The residency is open to anyone over the age of 18, no matter where they are from or where they live. The Prototyping Lab is open to people with experience or training in visual culture and new visualities, architecture and urbanism, writing, journalism, social studies, activism, digital media, environmental sciences, engineering, materials science, economics and any other field that can connect in a productive and original way with one or more of the topics of the LAB 4 Weird Futures programme.
This residency will be conducted in Spanish and English. All participants will have a sufficient level of English to interact with other members of their working group and the mentors.
Medialab pays for travel and accommodation for people who don’t live in the Community of Madrid, no matter where they come from (up to 10 people). The organisation will provide meals for all participants in the lab from Monday to Friday between 12 and 26 November.
#J-18808-Ljbffr