Call for students (BA, MA, PhD): explore Soesterberg military airbase with our researchers in residence | Deadline 6 October 2026


This October, your classroom could be a scarred airbase. Your teachers: artists, damaged ecologies, and the stubborn traces of history underfoot.

If you want to test what it means to learn differently—by walking, listening, embodying, and experimenting—join this field-lab where knowledge is made through movement, imagination, and critical attention to landscape. Deadline: October 6, 2025

Call for Student Participation

ReCNTR and 1646 Experimental Art Space invite you to step off campus and into the layered terrains of Soesterberg Airbase on Friday, October 17, 2025. Once a Cold War stronghold, now rebranded as an ecological success story, the site holds traces of militarisation, environmental damage, and contested narratives of recovery.

Together with Anika Schwarzlose and Katja Verheul, two artists-in-residence at 1646 & ReCNTR this autumn, we’ll spend a day experimenting with a variety of artistic research strategies. Expect to move, listen, imagine, and document:

  • 1m² observation – turning to the ground beneath our feet we notice what usually goes unseen
  • Deep listening – we stretch our ears across distances and registers
  • Performative embodiment – we become a veteran, a soil scientist, a forest ranger, or even the landscape itself
  • Time travel – we reimagine Soesterberg’s pasts and futures through our character’s eyes

We’ll walk, talk, write, draw, record, and share.

Lunch and conversation will follow at the National Military Museum.

Practicalities

  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 – 14:30
  • Place: Soesterberg Airbase & National Military Museum
  • ReCNTR will cover expenses for travel (if needed), lunch, and supplies

How to join

Email us at recntr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl with a short statement (250–300 words) about your motivation to participate and how this workshop connects to your interests. Open to BA, MA, ResMA, and PhD students – no prior experience, skills nor knowledge required. Deadline: October 6, 2025

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