ADRIE 2025 (1A + 1B)

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What can you apply for?

Artistic and design research in immersive experiences. For artists, designers and creative professionals exploring the boundaries of IX.

The question behind this funding scheme

How can artists and designers develop new forms of immersive art and design?

Funded projects

Projects funded through ADRIE 2025 (1A + 1B)

Futures of Listening

Futures of Listening has developed an R&D programme based on the principle of 'listening to a polyphonic world'. The consortium researches and develops new forms of immersive creation, listening and experience through spatial sound, which deepen our understanding of the world and address societal challenges, such as inclusivity and environmental challenges. At the same time, it aims to sustainably anchor spatial sound as an artistic and technological discipline within the broader IX sector, improve the quality of spatial sound experiences, stimulate new forms of listening and knowledge transfer, and strengthen international positioning and accessibility. The activity programme consists of a series of activities, realised through a community-oriented approach with makers and researchers. The core is formed by a residency programme in which makers - by invitation and through open calls - collaborate with researchers and developers. In this programme, they work on developing prototypes of immersive creations, sensory storytelling, immersive listening and weaving the relationship between inclusivity, humans and non-humans. Four mutually reinforcing research areas are developed ('message', 'perception', 'technology', and 'place & access'). This is supported by knowledge sharing and open-source tools, interfaces and instruments via symposia, an online platform and a concluding publication. Other activities include international events, workshops, education and mentorship.

HEFT: Heritage for the Future

HEFT: Heritage for the future – expanding the IX ecosystem for embodied cultural experiences HEFT aims to strengthen and develop the IX field by bridging systemic challenges - limitations in scalability, inaccessible public spaces, low discoverability - through artistic research. The consortium focuses on developing artistic methodologies that embrace the embodied qualities of IX, promote collective engagement and enable scalable preservation and version management (heritage) for long-term access. The project operationalises five core objectives ('reimagine', 'unite', 'sustain', 'empower' and 'safeguard'). The consortium's key contribution is generating fundamental, sector-wide and transferable knowledge and tools. The activity programme is carried out through five interconnected work packages, with emphasis on artistic research through design using IX prototypes from makers. Key outcomes include the framework for embodied design methods, toolkits, guidelines and recommendations for policy and international support. The efforts culminate in an international conference and the integration of results into educational programmes. A sustainability plan ensures long-term impact and application of the results.

Shared Realities

The Shared Realities consortium launches a living lab to explore and develop collective immersive experiences and a physical and sustainable exhibition culture for emerging forms of immersive art. The consortium focuses on exploring and researching collective immersive storytelling, strengthening the ecosystem for co-production and distribution, and engaging audiences through shared experiences. Makers, producers, curators, distributors and researchers work together to further develop an emerging practice and generate knowledge through an interconnected process. The activities are organised around overlapping trajectories – 'creation and prototyping', 'reflection and interpretation', 'documentation and dissemination' – and develop applicable knowledge, stimulate sustainable exhibition practices and increase the international recognition of Dutch immersive artists (artists who are part of the consortium and artists selected through an open call). The trajectories are staged in the run-up to the annual International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

Stage IX

LAUNCHPAD NINE aims to transform the fragmented Dutch IX sector by building an artist-centred infrastructure that unites creation, production, presentation and education. The activity programme generates openly accessible methodologies and toolkits, creates sustainable talent pathways and reclaims imagination by challenging technology-driven paradigms. The programme operates through intensive residencies structured around practice-oriented research with emerging and established artists and collectives, attracted through an open call. Each residency includes workshops, prototyping and public activations. Artistic creation processes serve as the primary research engine, with residencies generating insights across three research clusters: 'pedagogy, knowledge exchange & documentation', 'sustainable production workflows', and 'audience engagement & experience'.

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