WHO SHOULD APPLY?

We welcome post graduate students and young professionals 25-35 years old from anywhere in the world who share Strelka’s ultimate ambition to improve society by changing the landscape and want to actively participate in shaping the future.

We are consistently looking for people with the right drive to make positive change happen, which requires: intellectual ability and conceptual thinking, team work and self management, positive energy, initiative and risk taking, visualisation and articulation skills.

We promote diversity but have a strong interest in students of architectural, urbanist and design backgrounds. We fast track applicants with work experience (>3 years) and we are particularly interested in students who demonstrate great initiative through extracurricular activities. Finally, fluency in English is mandatory.

Applying to Strelka is about challenging your own ideas of what education can be. Among those teaching at Strelka are architects from AMO/OMA, Bureau Meganom, Bureau Alexander Brodsky, experts from McKinsey, MIT, Hyper Island, The Why Factory, Arch Daily and many others. Our graduates work with city administrations and museums, architectural bureaus and media resources, they are engaged in consulting and other projects at the Gorky Park, Polytechnic Museum, Moscow Urban Forum, they start teaching and write books.

All students receive full funding in the amount of 39 200 rub (980 euros) monthly.

Studies begin October 1 and end June 30.

To take a peek at the education process at Strelka, go to the page of one of our projects – Strelka Talks.

Find more about Strelka studies in our students’ blog.

TO APPLY

Enrollment begins on March 1 and last until July 26, 2013. To apply, please submit the following materials:

Please check out the application form for detailed description of the applications materials

TEST-DRIVE

Each year Strelka hosts a series of special Research Simulators to give all interested applicants an idea of what studying at Strelka implies. During these Simulators and under the guidance of invited curators participants take part in 2-day events that are be a fun way to try oneself at creative research and experience Strelka. These workshops are held in English. More information about Research Simulators will be available in the Summer at Strelka Programme schedule. See below the video of Research Simulator I: Zaryadye. Mapping the Void.

APPLICATION STEPS

1. Complete the application form including all relevant materials by July 26, 2013 (deadline is midnight from July 26 to 27, Moscow time).
2. Strelka Admissions Board will review your portfolio and let you know by August 1 if your application has been pre-selected. Along with that confirmation you will be sent an invitation to the Admission Event taking place at Strelka August 26-27.
3. Admission Event is a two-day gathering at the Strelka Institute where all of the pre-selected applicants will get to meet and mingle, find out more about the Institute and the programme, talk to the Strelka team, debate, participate in group exercises and decide for themselves if enrolling
in Strelka is the right choice. We will hold the event in English. Foreign applicants are encouraged to participate but are not required to: instead each pre-selected applicant will be interviewed by skype.
4. Following the event Strelka Admissions Board will send out final notices of admission to all selected candidates by September 1.