NOTAR V: Resolution
Madrid, Spain
NOTAR is a residency program promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and hablarenarte with the aim of promoting and consolidating research on critical pedagogies, experimental mediation and alternative institutionalism.
NOTAR Open Call for residencies was open from 16.12.2025 to 15.02.2026 and 297 applications were received.
During the evaluation of the proposals received, two phases of assessment were implemented. In the first phase, all the proposals received were considered and each of them was evaluated by two members of a committee composed of Ane Rodríguez Armendariz and Anne Raskin (Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation), Mamen Adeva and Flavia Introzzi, (hablarenarte), Leticia Cano and Timanfaya Custodio as external professionals.
10 finalists were pre-selected for further evaluation by a jury composed of the organizations behind MAR: Anneke Raskin (Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation); Flavia Introzzi and Mamen Adeva (hablarenarte), Alba Cacheda (Fundación María José Jove, A Coruña) and Betisa Ojanguren San Millán (Centro Huarte, Navarra).
It should be noted that in order to deepen the knowledge of the proposals submitted, in this edition online interviews were conducted with the 10 finalists, this not being an instance of evaluation but of dialogue between the parties.
For the transparency of the resolution and to facilitate its understanding, we have included the report of the process of dialogue and selection of the jury.
The final selection of 3 beneficiaries for the NOTAR research residencies is composed of the following projects:
Paco Inclán | Poliglotías (Polyglotism)
Words and expressions are threads that connect us through language. They tell the story of humanity’s journey through time. Some suggest that all languages are variants of a single one: the one that leads us to express the same emotions, ideas, and feelings in different ways. Tracing that common thread—mediating between languages and their speakers—and applying it to mediation practices in multilingual contexts is the purpose of Poliglotías. The research aims to develop a creative methodology that broadens our ethnolinguistic perspective toward other imaginaries—other ways of naming the world that are also other ways of thinking about and inhabiting it. It will focus on the possibility of a polyglot language as a tool for generating dynamics that can be applied in mediation settings with groups from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Miren Bayona | Del cotiledón, un tesoro
“From the Cotyledon, a Treasure” is a research project on experimental documentation related to cultural mediation processes. Its approach stems from an interest in exploring ways and formats of storytelling (and self-narration), and it unfolds through an examination of the personal archives of mediators, which, taken together, reflect a habit of collecting that often accompanies the profession. Treased objects and documents, logbooks, photographs, small self-published works… these are the traces of mediation that this project seeks to distill through publishing. To this end, the research takes place in a publishing laboratory that blends mediation and editorial practices, where experimentation with the archives and the creation of a collective narrative will be carried out.
Catherine Lie | Arquitectura de Masa Madre
Masa Madre Architecture, as a framework for itinerant artistic research, uses situated fermentation as a material process and social choreography to examine how knowledge, care and cultural memory circulate through mundane, essential, and everyday practices. Rooted in regional and transnational traditions of breadmaking and domestic tools, the project treats mediation not as an audience-engagement strategy or an educational supplement, but as a structural condition for the commoning. It understands cultural mediation as praxis: a situated and embodied process through which knowledge is collectively produced, circulated, and sustained over time. Rather than positioning mediation as an extension or interpretation, it is treated as infrastructure—a repeatable set of conditions that enable encounter, negotiation, and shared authorship.
Among the 10 finalist proposals, the following candidates stand out as alternates:
- La fanzinoteca ambulant Associació Cultural | Querides lectores...
- Ángela Palacios Ramírez | Cuerpxs colectivos
For more information, you can read the jury’s report at this link.
