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Opportunity for UCC PhD students: Hidden Cities - UNIC blended intensive programme
5 Sep 2025
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20/10/2025
Call for Expressions of Interest – PG7004 Research Training - Masterclass: Contemporary Theoretical Paradigms in the Humanities focusing on Artistic Methodologies for Artists and non-Artists as applied to transformations of urban space.
We invite PhD students seeking postgraduate training in innovative methodological approaches from the arts to participate in the FHI & UNIC Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)
Hidden Cities: Artistic Methodologies at Advanced Levels to Explore Urban Transformation (Public Arts Garage Cork).
This BIP is coordinated by University College Cork (UCC) and will run as a
credited postgraduate research training module (PG7004, 5 ECTS). It brings together doctoral and advanced research Master students from across the UNIC Alliance and other partner universities to explore innovative artistic research methodologies. How best we might engage artistic methodologies to transform the experience of urban space is our motivating question.
Doctoral and advanced research master students from the following Universities: Lodz, Ruhr Bochum, Liege, Zagreb, Malmö, Erasmus Rotterdam, Bauhaus Weimar, Barcelona, Rennes 2 will travel to Cork for the five-day intensive in December. They will be joined by students in Cork enrolled in PG7004,
Academics from the preceding universities and from Koç University Istanbul and the University of Oulu will deliver workshops or digital teaching sessions as part of the programme.
Programme Details
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Virtual component: Six weekly online sessions from 20 October – 24 November 2025 (Monday evenings 4-6 pm Irish time, plus optional daytime, Friday digital drop-in sessions).
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Physical co-presence: An in-person intensive in Cork, Ireland, from 1–5 December 2025.
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Content: Participants will engage with learning about artistic research methods (sound, movement, image, space, touch, speculative design, improvisation, etc.), cross-cultural communication, and co-creation. The residency in Cork will culminate in group presentations of artistic concepts designed for hidden urban sites.
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Both arts-practice-inclusive PhD students and those who are interested but inexperienced with artistic methods are welcome to this module. The blend of participants creates its magic!
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This builds on previous BIPs delivered virtually, and in Barcelona and Rennes.
Expression of Interest Process
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Interested students should register in the 2026 module PG7004.
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They should simultaneously send brice.catherin@ucc.ie a short paragraph detailing their interest in the work.
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Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis with a maximum cap of 30 students from Cork, to ensure our total number of participants is under 80.
Further Information
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General information on the BIP: see attached flyer
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UCC Module Catalogue: PG7004
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Queries can be directed to: