November 2026 – February 2027 in Luxembourg-City
Application Deadline: 11.11.2026
Jury: 11.12.2026
Onboarding week: 16.11.2026
Exploring Co-habitation within Quarter in transition
It’s at the outset of the area’s masterplan transformation, that hqLX is recasting Luxembourg City’s venerable 1968 firestation into a hybrid third space for contemporary residencies and spatial experimentation, situated in the to-become Wunnquartier Stade in Belair, the west of the city.
Informed by academic research and activated through playful encounters, hqLX operates as a living laboratory across 1,000 m² – a lieu de vie with quotidian Cafeteria service, where informal community life and outlying urban activities converge.
For FW2026, hqLX invites one cultural practitioner to join its collective residency format 4L « Quarterlife » for a period of three months, engaging with the proximate environments of the firehall site through a curious cycle of territorial mapping, recreative discussions, and public restitution.
4L takes the operational logic of the firestation as its methodological point of departure: just as a fire brigade trains ‘within’ in order to intervene ’beyond’, the resident moves from the project’s self-examining attitude – habitually relational, archival, spatial – toward extramuros deployment to reinforce public engagement.
This edition builds on the first residency SS2026 – which delivered hqLX’s prototyping atelier – and is pursuing its territorial examination to consolidate the founding step toward a longer-term academic framework at the space.
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The continuous research as relay race
A cycle of repetition and deliberate intervals, sparking off unanticipated events.
a. You are mapping the past anecdotes of an evolving quarter through archival review, institutional visits, and civic encounters: with CIS firefighters, National Archives, Service Sports, and others.
b. You are engaging the field research within 4L’s weekly class co-hosted by your invitees and accompanied by thematic interlocutors, designing a collaborative agenda porous for related art collectives and cultural initiatives to react to.
c. You are consolidating the cycle into a transferable cornerstone: a document of photographs, spatial protocol, or relational network deposit for the following resident.
Over 12 weeks, the resident is encouraged to co-produce three public-facing outputs: translating real neighbourhood data into imagined spatial narratives through an installative work, a performative piece or participatory games.
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The practicalities of our hybrid residency
Duration of 3 months, for part-time engagement of weekly contributions.
Stipend of 6’000€ for a practice currently in academic development & already engaging in spatiality and social context.
Location and workspace are anywhere between hqLX and the University of Luxembourg.
Eligible are any artistic disciplines, cultural and scientific fields.
Applicants must demonstrate a significant connection to Luxembourg.
Luxembourg-based candidates preferred. We do not offer housing yet.
The call prioritises practitioners working at the intersections of architecture, urbanism, and cultural production. Candidates should demonstrate comfort with collaborative modes of working, an interest in neighbourhood-scale research; and a capacity to translate field investigation into public-facing cultural outcomes.
Send your application until the 8th of November at 23:59 CET to: 4L@h-q-l-x.org
Single Pdf or ZIP file with a max. of 20MB in English.