Only two weeks left to register for the Institute for Postnatural Studies Fall 2025 Online Seminar Series

Madrid, November 2025. The Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS) continues with its fall academic season with three online seminars that bring together artists, curators, researchers, and practitioners to reflect on ecology, technology, and collective futures. Conceived as spaces of critical inquiry and experimentation, these programs extend IPS’s commitment to exploring postnature as a framework for contemporary thought and creation.
Participants from across geographies are invited to join these collective learning journeys, each unfolding across four online sessions. Only two weeks left to register, so act fast!

Applications for the 2026 edition of the Postnatural Independent Program being accepted now through November 16th, 2025!

Check out our website to explore our programs, faculty, and upcoming events!

4 Degrees of Simulation
^{Led by Julia Nueno Guitart - Forensic Architecture}

Guest speakers: Matthew Fuller, Lucia Rebolino, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, and Bahar Noorizadeh

This seminar explores sensing as a political and contested practice of knowledge production. Perception is never neutral: infrastructures and techniques determine what is made visible or remains hidden, which claims are amplified or dismissed, whose lives are recognized, and which futures become imaginable. Over four sessions, artists, curators, and researchers will guide us through the digital and technical environments where their practice unfolds. 

4 online sessions
Mondays, November 3 – 24, 2025
18:00–20:00 CEST · 4 sessions · Online via Zoom
250€ registration fee*
*20% discount for students and IPS alumni

Registration on our website, iquiries at [email protected] 

For, Against, After, Towards—Architecture Beyond the Human
^{Led by Filipa Ramos}

Can we conceive of architecture as something more than a human-centered practice? This seminar invites us to rethink design traditions through animal, vegetal, and fungal perspectives, exploring architecture as an interspecies process shaped by collaboration, tension, and fiction. Rather than seeing architecture solely as the product of human authorship, we will consider how it emerges from entanglements with nonhuman life and material agencies.
Each session, For, Against, After, Towards, marks a different direction through which to approach architecture beyond the human. Drawing on case studies from design, contemporary art, anthropology, and bioacoustics, this seminar examines the inclusive yet violent, collective yet exclusionary dimensions of architectural practice.

4 online sessions
Tuesdays, November 4 – December 2, 2025
18:00–20:00 CEST · 4 sessions · Online via Zoom
250€ registration fee*
*20% discount for students and IPS alumni

Registration on our website, inquiries at [email protected]

Blue Ecologies ~Sweet
^{Led by Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano}

Guest speakers: Elizabeth Gallón-Droste, Zahra Malkani

Fresh waters—rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers—are not passive backdrops to human life but living bodies with their own rhythms, urgencies, and memories. This seminar turns to sweet waters as beings entangled with infrastructure, extractivism, spirituality, and resistance, at a time when climate disruption and colonial legacies place them under increasing threat.
Guided by Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano, with guest contributors Zahra Malkani and Elizabeth Gallón-Droste, Blue Ecologies ~ Sweet foregrounds how water communicates—and how we might learn to listen.

4 online sessions
Wednesdays, November 5 – 26, 2025
6–8 PM (CET) · 4 sessions · Online via Zoom
250€ registration fee*
*20% discount for students and IPS alumni

Registration on our website, inquiries at [email protected]

Application period for the 2026 edition of the Postnatural Independent Program now open through November 16th.

Hybrid - online sessions and 2 in-person encounters
From January 19th - June 6th, 2026
Application period open until November 16th, 2025

The Postnatural Independent Program offered by the IPS is a hybrid learning space that offers theoretical tools, embodied learning, community building spaces, and expertise to define and examine postnature as a framework for contemporary creation. The Postnatural Independent Program (PIP) offers an experimental platform for ecological thinking and cultural initiatives in an expanded virtual campus, approaching the participants’ potential from a holistic mediation. It also brings together established researchers and art institutions that will host guest lectures, working sessions, and activations. 
The program is structured in 3 online modules, accompanied by renowned international thinkers, artists, curators, and philosophers, complemented by collective practice laboratories, collective sharing spaces and two in-person encounters in Madrid in which the cohort will share their investigation and practice in a safe environment and engage with the local cultural landscape.
For an overview of the course, dates, and the application process, please check out our website or write to [email protected]. 

Grow alongside peers from art, theory, design, science, and beyond. The PIP is a safe space to test ideas, exchange practices, and imagine desirable futures. Scholarships and other financial support are available.

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