H401 is delighted to announce the launch of a new European Collaboration: Peace and Mobilities.
This four-year project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie staff exchange programme, will study how people on the move contribute to the creation of visions of everyday peace.
Peace and Mobilities will focus on the concept of people on the move when referring to mobilities to include both people who are forced to move transitionally (e.g. refugees) as well as at the national level (e.g. internally displaced people). One of the key questions will be: how do people on the move create new understandings of peace, as more than a space without violence?
As a cultural partner within this consortium, H401 will contribute in the form of a number of artist-related activities, such as a residency and a travelling exhibition. We will organise, in collaboration with international partners, an Open Call for artists to contribute to the (positive!) relationship between ‘migration and peace’ and exhibitions that will highlight the theme.
Peace and Mobilities | Comillas University, Spain – May 2025
The project concluded another successful secondment – a one-month research period – at the Comillas Pontifical University, in Madrid (Spain). One of the key activities was the visit to the Melilla-Nador border, a Spanish autonomous city located in North Africa and bordering Morocco. Although for a short period, inhabiting the space in, and between, the two cities sparked reflections on the interplay of gender, securisation, and nationality when crossing borders with – or without – a European passport.
Follow the development of Peace and Mobilities on our social or via the project’s website, Instagram and YouTube Channel.
The Peace and Mobilities consortium includes: Universität Bielefeld (lead partner, DE), Universidad Autónoma de Chile (CL), Universidad de Guadalajara (MX), Universidad Nacional de Colombia (CO), Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ES), Università degli Studi Milano (IT), Zaporizhzhia National University (UA) and Stichting H401 (NL).
