Taking place in Nicosia between November and December 2025, Ecoscapes brings together practitioners across disciplines, from the visual arts and curating to science and civic practice to participate in a site-specific residency and a culminating public symposium.

The programme is hosted at Gardens of the Future, a community-led ecological site in the heart of Nicosia, providing a setting for field research, dialogue, and creative experimentation. 

Participants will engage in public conversations, co-develop responses to urgent environmental and cultural issues, and contribute to shaping a shared, process-led inquiry into adaptation and regeneration.

This is not a residency of retreat, but one of engagement.

Cyprus - marked by water scarcity, border complexity, and a history of community resilience, offers a potent context for rethinking Mediterranean futures.

This edition of Ecoscapes centres on Nicosia, a city increasingly shaped by the tangible impacts of climate change: rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, water scarcity, flash floods, and the intensifying Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. These conditions have significant effects on daily life, ecology, and public health but they also give rise to grassroots creativity, civic engagement, and place-based responses.

Participants are invited to explore these interconnected dynamics through four thematic lenses:

• Ecological Materialities – soil erosion, heat, drought, urban green space, non-human relations

• Civic Ecologies – climate justice, local stewardship, self-organised ecologies

• Transcultural Memory – histories of migration, displacement, and shared heritage

• Speculative Propositions – rewilding, eco-fiction, collective repair, time-based futures

• Residency at Gardens of the Future, with facilitation, and local support

• Participation in a transdisciplinary cohort and programme of workshops, mentoring, and field visits

• Opportunities to contribute to public-facing digital events and an international symposium

• Inclusion in long-term curatorial and publishing outputs

• Space to develop critical, process-led work in response to Cyprus’ evolving environmental and cultural context

A fee of 800 EUROS will be paid to each successful candidate.

We invite applications from: Artists and curators working in visual arts, sound, performance, social design, or expanded curatorial practice

• Practitioners based in Cyprus, working independently or within collectives, with or without institutional affiliations

• Those interested in ecological, socially engaged, or collaborative approaches to cultural practice

We especially encourage applications from individuals and communities that are underrepresented in the arts and culture sector.

Applications will be assessed by a panel of local and international peers.

• Rebecca Lewin – Head of Curatorial Programme, Future Observatory, Design Museum (London)

• Harun Morrison – Artist and writer

• Alessandro Vincentelli – Independent curator

• Argyro Toumazou – D6:EU

• Halime Özdemir di Larusso – Magnus Tempus 360

July – September 2025
Open Call Dissemination and Selection
The call is circulated through Cyprus-based networks and platforms. Four practitioners (two artists, two curators) will be selected via peer review.

September 2025
Induction & Alignment Sessions
Selected participants are briefed on the curatorial framework and enter dialogue with project leads and invited guests.

September – October 2025
Online Public Programme
Two participatory events featuring international and local contributors offer thematic framing and early public engagement.

27 November – 3 December 2025
Residency at Gardens of the Future, Nicosia
A seven-day, site-specific programme including fieldwork, workshops, site visits, and collaborative development.

3 December 2025
Public Symposium
A one-day gathering for shared reflection, presenting work-in-progress, provocations, and dialogues in a public forum.

• Rebecca Lewin is Head of Curatorial Programme at Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. Previously, she was Senior Curator at the Design Museum and Curator of Exhibitions and Design at Serpentine Galleries. She has produced independent exhibitions at Centre Pompidou Metz, Kestle Barton and Cell Project Space, and has contributed to artist’s monographs, Phaidon’s publication Vitamin C and Koenig Books. She has taught on courses at the Royal College of Art and Design Academy Eindhoven and acted as an external examiner at Iceland University of Arts and écal Lausanne.

• Harun Morrison is an artist and writer living on the UK inland waterways. He is currently  an associate artist with Greenpeace UK. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works.

  Recent group exhibitions include Chronic Hunger, Chronic Desire in Timișoara, Romania and BALATORIUM Disturbed Waters, in Veszprém, Hungary as part of the European Capital of Culture 2023 programme and Storm Warning: What does climate change mean for coastal communities? at Focal Point / Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include, Dolphin Head Mountain at the Horniman Museum, London (2022 -23), Mark The Spark at Nieuwe Vide project space in Haarlem, Netherlands (2022) and Experiments with Everyday Objects, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, (2021). Harun is currently co-developing community gardens in Merseyside for Bootle Library and Mind Sheffield, a mental health support service, as part of the Arts Catalyst research project, Emergent Ecologies.

• Alessandro Vincentelli is a curator and producer working internationally, originally based in the UK. He was a Curator of Exhibitions and Research at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, where he worked for 16 years. He has also worked as Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and at Arts Council England, North East, where he worked as Visual Arts Officer on Arts funding programmes across the North East and Cumbria. He set up a photoNorth, a photography and publishing initiative, and arts advocacy project that ran in the North East with ERDF funding and Arts Council England funding in partnership with regional universities in the North East. As well as being a member board of D6: EU since Autumn 2023, he has been an advisor with UK based arts/ecology organisation, Invisible Dust. He has also served as board advisory for Art Axis Web, based in Leeds.

• Argyro Toumazou works as an independent strategist, curator, planner, producer and organiser of cultural activities. Over the last decade, she has cooperated closely with artists’ groups and Cypriot NGOs and has gained extensive experience in bi-communal programmes and art initiatives, working in close collaboration with local authorities, UNDP Cyprus, the EU and the Cultural Services. She has coordinated and co-managed projects such as Confrontation through Art (2014 – 2017), Buffer Zone (2013), the MAX Busking Musicians Walk (2012), UNCOVERED (2011), UN Revolving Art Exhibitions (2009 – 2011), 50 Years of Artistic Creation (Oct 2010) and Little Land Fish, Istanbul (2010). Since 2013, she has also been the Business Manager of Dimis.org, which specialises in training organisations on innovation, creativity and leadership. Argyro is a long-time contributor to theatre reviews in TimeOut and the Wiz Urban Guide, and she was also a founding board member of the Cyprus Clothing Industry Association and the Cyprus Fashion Resource Center, and served, respectively, as Treasurer and Acting Director.

• Halime Özdemir di Larusso lives and works between Larnaca and London and is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning arts producer, curator, and cultural strategist, committed to fostering creative dialogue across borders. Her practice is distinguished by a rare fusion of visionary ambition, interdisciplinary rigour, and a belief in the transformative power of the arts to rewrite spatial, social, and cultural narratives. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Producer 360°, a global network known for producing major collaborations across the visual arts, film, performance, and fashion. Through Magnus Tempus 360°, she has established a platform that deepens cultural exchange between Cyprus, the Mediterranean, and broader international networks, cultivating spaces where layered identities, diasporic memory, and evolving futures intersect. Over a distinguished two-decade career, Halime has delivered over 150 exhibitions and multidisciplinary commissions for leading cultural institutions, including the Serpentine Galleries, British Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, Frieze, and Parasol Unit. At the Serpentine, she produced several of the gallery’s most significant contemporary shows: Steve McQueen: Grenfell, Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States, Judy Chicago: Revelations, Refik Anadol: Echoes of the Earth, Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds, Gabriel Massan: Third World, Radio Ballads, and the climate-centred commission Back to Earth. She also produced major moments at Claridge’s ArtSpace, including Double Exposure by David Bailey & Mary McCartney and Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot by Daria Blum.

• D6:EU is a Cyprus-based NGO focused on socially engaged artistic practice. As part of the wider D6: Culture in Transit network, D6:EU delivers international projects rooted in place, participation, and cultural equity, fostering dialogue between local communities and global challenges.
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• Magnus Tempus 360 is a Cyprus-based itinerant cultural platform founded by Halime Özdemir di Larusso, emerging from two decades of cross-disciplinary production through Producer 360°. Rooted in the Mediterranean yet expansively networked, it fosters sustained inquiry into time, place, ecology, and transnational identity through residencies, public engagement, and curatorial research.
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1. Project Proposal (max 400 words)
   – Artistic concept and relevance to the Cyprus context
   – Research or production methods
   – Intended direction or public interface

2. Portfolio
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