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The New Centre for Research & Practice is authorized as a Licensed Proprietary School (LPS) by the State of Michigan, USA, to provide graduate-level certificates of competency in a range of fields and disciplines. Our certificates are intended to complement, enhance, and intensify MA and PhD programs from existing accredited colleges and universities, as well as to recognize those enrolled in our seminars to broaden the scope of independent research and practice.
Presently, The New Centre offers certificate programs in Critical Philosophy, Art & Curatorial Practice, History, Design & Worldmaking and Transdisciplinary Research. The award of a graduate-level certificate from The New Centre requires the completion of at least ten one-credit seminar modules, as well as two-credits standing for consultancies with our Organizer, your respective Programmer and the delivery of your final project. Once you are accepted as a certificate student, any previously completed seminar module at The New Centre can be applied towards your certificate. Modules are transferable between programs to create a unique plan of study, to be approved by the Certificate Programmer. In addition, a program may require a project to be completed in order for a certificate to be awarded.
The price of tuition fees for the full, two-year Certificate Program is $5000 USD.
Please contact info@thenewcentre.org if you would like to receive a copy of The New Centre's Student handbook.
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To apply to the Intercentric Art & Curatorial Practice Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre's Sociopolitical Thought Program is devoted to exploring the pressing political and economic issues of our time, including the climate crisis, global health crises, the social impact of technology and AI, and the role of global capitalism and financial systems. The economic discontent generated by the changes of the last several decades, as well as the increasing importance of the Global South have created new horizons for the field of sociopolitical research. Addressing these requires a future-oriented approach that bridges the gap between abstract thought and concrete action and takes seriously the possibility that the peripheral ideas of today may be the hegemonic ones of tomorrow. Particularly important to these investigations is the concept of "social formation" or the idea that society is not a unitary whole but consists of a constellation of multiple entities and contradictions, subtended by the economy.
Students in the Sociopolitical Thought Program will attend Seminars that approach contemporary sociopolitical questions in a manner unmoored from the restrictions of institutional academia. In addition, they will learn about the history of politics and how it can address our present conjuncture. Above all, students are encouraged to develop their own perspectives on the impasses of our present-day politics, learning how to map a fractious political landscape and using reason to hold reality to account.
To apply, complete The New Centre's Application Form
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To apply to the Intercentric Art & Curatorial Practice Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre's Art and Curatorial Program investigates theories and practices of contemporary art from a global perspective, understanding "perspective" both as a mode of representation and as a particular attitude toward the world. Central to the Program is the concept of the "intercentric" or the idea that there exist multiple, distributed points of view, connected fragment to fragment rather than whole to whole. Drawing on contributions from experts across diverse cultures, traditions, disciplines, and institutional positions—from museums to self-organized spaces, emerging practitioners to established figures—the Program offers a polyphonic mosaic of contrapuntal perspectives. Like pointillist painting, where autonomous elements combine only in the eye of the beholder, meaning emerges through the sum of individual contributions rather than any predetermined synthesis.
The Program approaches artmaking and curating as forms of care, examining both their ethical possibilities and their entanglements with dominance and exploitation. Students will explore the tensions between political imagination and real-politics, self-organized production and institutional careers, artistic creativity and critical discourse, as well as the fraught transitions from studio to public sphere and the neuroses that attend the choice between being "good" and being "successful." Above all, the Program addresses the challenge of orientation and survival in a contemporary moment that lacks stable critical categories, equipping students with strategies for navigating a fragmented cultural landscape where the journey itself becomes the destination.
REQUIREMENTS: All certificate students will complete ten credits of seminars with The New Centre, with a minimum of four having to be taught by the Programmer of their Certificate of choice. The two remaining credits will consist of a consultancy with our Organizer, Mohammad Salemy, and the proposal, production, and publication of at least one full-length essay in a reputable online or print periodical venue or a substantial artistic or curatorial project with a reputable institution. The Programmer will supervise this project in two meetings which must be scheduled after completing the Seminar credits requirements. The certificate Programmer will closely assist all Certificate Students in achieving these requirements and liaising with potential publications, project execution, and internship venues.
To apply, complete The New Centre's Application Form.
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To apply to the Critical Philosophy Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre’s Critical Philosophy Program is devoted to developing philosophy adequate to the problems and questions posed by the 21st century, mainly the necessary transformation of the concepts of reason, thought, and intelligence as they pertain to the development of artificial intelligence and automation. In addition, the rise of the Anthropocene, which threatens global catastrophe, developments in physics, neurology, and biology, transformations in global capitalism and the way in which the military, media, and economic systems are now intertwined and exceed the boundaries of nation-states have all generated new conceptual challenges for philosophy. These transformations have posed a set of questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, politics, and ethics that cannot fully be addressed by the resources of traditional philosophy alone and require new philosophical concepts. Students in the Critical Philosophy Program will attend seminars in critical contemporary philosophy seldom taught in university graduate programs. In addition, students will take seminars devoted to the history of philosophy and how that history might be appropriated in terms of the present and future conditions. Above all, students are encouraged to develop research projects of their own devoted to rethinking intelligence in terms of ontology, epistemology, and ethics within the frame of the contemporary.
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To apply to the Transdisciplinary Studies Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program aims to explore the vast interfaces of thought, atmosphere, movement, materiality, and creative imagination. Visionary figures of avant-garde worlds already recognized the powerful possibilities arising from this traversal and distortion of dimensional boundaries. Thus, the Transdisciplinary Studies Program explores this unique collusion between literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, media theory, the arts, sciences, design, and vernacular knowledge by engaging with strategies that capture complexity, cultivate new ecologies of knowledge, and affect individual and collective transformations. This program offers theoretical and practical support to enhance and realize issue-based transdisciplinary projects unrestricted by the constraints of any one discipline. It provides a new vocabulary and grammar adequate for making sense of the future-oriented practices of our complex contemporary world. The program provides support and access to resources and community, offering seminars that cannot fit into a discipline-specific schedule, but are at once between, across, and beyond all disciplines. This program is ideal for those interested in research across specializations and professions; including graduate students designing theses and dissertations and undergraduates seeking to enhance their skills in research methods, qualitative research, interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary / transdisciplinary approaches from a range of perspectives, and arts-based or community-based researchers. The program is also ideal for those who are professionally involved in sciences, including computer science, helping them develop the language to link their practical concerns and professional practice to larger philosophical, cultural, and political questions.
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To apply to the Information Architecture & Intelligence Design Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
REQUIREMENTS: All certificate students will complete ten credits of seminars with The New Centre, with a minimum of four having to be taught by the Programmer of their Certificate of choice. The two remaining credits will consist of a consultancy with our Organizer, Mohammad Salemy, and the proposal, production, and publication of at least one full-length essay in a reputable online or print periodical venue or a substantial artistic or curatorial project with a reputable institution. The Programmer will supervise this project in two meetings which must be scheduled after completing the Seminar credits requirements. The certificate Programmer will closely assist all Certificate Students in achieving these requirements and liaising with potential publications, project execution, and internship venues.
To apply, complete The New Centre's Application Form.
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The New Centre is dedicated to supporting academic excellence and fostering artistic and scholarly potential in people from all over the world. Our scholarships are designed to recognize achievement and intellectual rigor while ensuring that financial barriers do not stand in the way of education.
Every Season, we provide at least two full scholarships to deserving students through our scholarship application period. In addition, we provide dozens of partial scholarships (up to 80 per cent of tuition covered) to students in need. Applicants from the Global South automatically receive a 50 percent scholarship on our already affordable tuition fees. To apply, please complete this form and submit a writing sample alongside a cover letter outlining your intellectual interests and financial need.
We also offer full and partial scholarships to individual Seminars and Workshops regularly via our social media pages, usually a few weeks before each course is starting. Keep an eye on our communication channels to take advantage of those.
We invite students from all backgrounds to explore our financing options and to contact us to clarify any potential question. For more information, email admissions team at apply@thenewcentre.org.
Since September 2017, The New Centre offers one-on-one Consultations sessions with its Programmers for the purpose of tutoring and academic advice. Our Researchers and Members can book these tutoring sessions in order to discuss questions and topics of interest that relate to their area of research. In addition, our Organizers and faculty are also available to provide academic advice, helping our Researchers and Members in articulating or achieving their career goals. These tutoring and academic advice Consultations can be booked for 160 USD per hour. Our Certificate Students receive 1.5 hours of free Consultation as part of their requirements and a special rate of 145 USD / hour for extra booking.
For more information please contact the Student Services.
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Certificate Programs
APPLY TO CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
The New Centre for Research & Practice is authorized as a Licensed Proprietary School (LPS) by the State of Michigan, USA, to provide graduate-level certificates of competency in a range of fields and disciplines. Our certificates are intended to complement, enhance, and intensify MA and PhD programs from existing accredited colleges and universities, as well as to recognize those enrolled in our seminars to broaden the scope of independent research and practice.
Presently, The New Centre offers certificate programs in Critical Philosophy, Art & Curatorial Practice, History, Design & Worldmaking and Transdisciplinary Research. The award of a graduate-level certificate from The New Centre requires the completion of at least ten one-credit seminar modules, as well as two-credits standing for consultancies with our Organizer, your respective Programmer and the delivery of your final project. Once you are accepted as a certificate student, any previously completed seminar module at The New Centre can be applied towards your certificate. Modules are transferable between programs to create a unique plan of study, to be approved by the Certificate Programmer. In addition, a program may require a project to be completed in order for a certificate to be awarded.
The price of tuition fees for the full, two-year Certificate Program is $5000 USD.
Please contact info@thenewcentre.org if you would like to receive a copy of The New Centre's Student handbook.
Admissions
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To apply for our two-year Graduate-level Certificate Programs, please complete The New Centre's Application Form. If we need additional documentation, we will ask for it afterwards, but we have streamlined the initial application process to take less than ten minutes to complete. →
Sociopolitical Thought
Programmer Conrad Hamilton
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To apply to the Intercentric Art & Curatorial Practice Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre's Sociopolitical Thought Program is devoted to exploring the pressing political and economic issues of our time, including the climate crisis, global health crises, the social impact of technology and AI, and the role of global capitalism and financial systems. The economic discontent generated by the changes of the last several decades, as well as the increasing importance of the Global South have created new horizons for the field of sociopolitical research. Addressing these requires a future-oriented approach that bridges the gap between abstract thought and concrete action and takes seriously the possibility that the peripheral ideas of today may be the hegemonic ones of tomorrow. Particularly important to these investigations is the concept of "social formation" or the idea that society is not a unitary whole but consists of a constellation of multiple entities and contradictions, subtended by the economy.
Students in the Sociopolitical Thought Program will attend Seminars that approach contemporary sociopolitical questions in a manner unmoored from the restrictions of institutional academia. In addition, they will learn about the history of politics and how it can address our present conjuncture. Above all, students are encouraged to develop their own perspectives on the impasses of our present-day politics, learning how to map a fractious political landscape and using reason to hold reality to account.
To apply, complete The New Centre's Application Form
Intercentric Art & Curatorial Practice
Programmer Boris Ondreička
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To apply to the Intercentric Art & Curatorial Practice Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre's Art and Curatorial Program investigates theories and practices of contemporary art from a global perspective, understanding "perspective" both as a mode of representation and as a particular attitude toward the world. Central to the Program is the concept of the "intercentric" or the idea that there exist multiple, distributed points of view, connected fragment to fragment rather than whole to whole. Drawing on contributions from experts across diverse cultures, traditions, disciplines, and institutional positions—from museums to self-organized spaces, emerging practitioners to established figures—the Program offers a polyphonic mosaic of contrapuntal perspectives. Like pointillist painting, where autonomous elements combine only in the eye of the beholder, meaning emerges through the sum of individual contributions rather than any predetermined synthesis.
The Program approaches artmaking and curating as forms of care, examining both their ethical possibilities and their entanglements with dominance and exploitation. Students will explore the tensions between political imagination and real-politics, self-organized production and institutional careers, artistic creativity and critical discourse, as well as the fraught transitions from studio to public sphere and the neuroses that attend the choice between being "good" and being "successful." Above all, the Program addresses the challenge of orientation and survival in a contemporary moment that lacks stable critical categories, equipping students with strategies for navigating a fragmented cultural landscape where the journey itself becomes the destination.
REQUIREMENTS: All certificate students will complete ten credits of seminars with The New Centre, with a minimum of four having to be taught by the Programmer of their Certificate of choice. The two remaining credits will consist of a consultancy with our Organizer, Mohammad Salemy, and the proposal, production, and publication of at least one full-length essay in a reputable online or print periodical venue or a substantial artistic or curatorial project with a reputable institution. The Programmer will supervise this project in two meetings which must be scheduled after completing the Seminar credits requirements. The certificate Programmer will closely assist all Certificate Students in achieving these requirements and liaising with potential publications, project execution, and internship venues.
To apply, complete The New Centre's Application Form.
Critical Philosophy
Programmer Reza Negarestani
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To apply to the Critical Philosophy Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre’s Critical Philosophy Program is devoted to developing philosophy adequate to the problems and questions posed by the 21st century, mainly the necessary transformation of the concepts of reason, thought, and intelligence as they pertain to the development of artificial intelligence and automation. In addition, the rise of the Anthropocene, which threatens global catastrophe, developments in physics, neurology, and biology, transformations in global capitalism and the way in which the military, media, and economic systems are now intertwined and exceed the boundaries of nation-states have all generated new conceptual challenges for philosophy. These transformations have posed a set of questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, politics, and ethics that cannot fully be addressed by the resources of traditional philosophy alone and require new philosophical concepts. Students in the Critical Philosophy Program will attend seminars in critical contemporary philosophy seldom taught in university graduate programs. In addition, students will take seminars devoted to the history of philosophy and how that history might be appropriated in terms of the present and future conditions. Above all, students are encouraged to develop research projects of their own devoted to rethinking intelligence in terms of ontology, epistemology, and ethics within the frame of the contemporary.
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Transdisciplinary Studies
Programmer Roya Rastegar
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To apply to the Transdisciplinary Studies Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The New Centre’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program aims to explore the vast interfaces of thought, atmosphere, movement, materiality, and creative imagination. Visionary figures of avant-garde worlds already recognized the powerful possibilities arising from this traversal and distortion of dimensional boundaries. Thus, the Transdisciplinary Studies Program explores this unique collusion between literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, media theory, the arts, sciences, design, and vernacular knowledge by engaging with strategies that capture complexity, cultivate new ecologies of knowledge, and affect individual and collective transformations. This program offers theoretical and practical support to enhance and realize issue-based transdisciplinary projects unrestricted by the constraints of any one discipline. It provides a new vocabulary and grammar adequate for making sense of the future-oriented practices of our complex contemporary world. The program provides support and access to resources and community, offering seminars that cannot fit into a discipline-specific schedule, but are at once between, across, and beyond all disciplines. This program is ideal for those interested in research across specializations and professions; including graduate students designing theses and dissertations and undergraduates seeking to enhance their skills in research methods, qualitative research, interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary / transdisciplinary approaches from a range of perspectives, and arts-based or community-based researchers. The program is also ideal for those who are professionally involved in sciences, including computer science, helping them develop the language to link their practical concerns and professional practice to larger philosophical, cultural, and political questions.
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Information Architecture & Intelligence Design
Programmer Morgane Billuart & Cassandra Spiral
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To apply to the Information Architecture & Intelligence Design Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.
The Information Architecture and Intelligence Design Program questions what defines intelligence and how technological forces are mobilized to override or displace pre-existing systems of creation. Under a technocratic regime, how do hierarchies of intelligence come into being, and which forms are protected, cultivated, or sidelined? Within current rhetoric and debates surrounding emerging technologies, what does it mean to describe machinic production as superintelligence, and how might we challenge the still-predominant Californian ideology that mobilizes this notion? At a time when automation appears inevitable and consciousness is projected through technological mirages, this inquiry proposes a reactivation of intelligence through energetic and creative transfer, examining how these processes intersect with technological systems. The Program also reflects on the foundations of an ethics of AI development, recognizing that within the competitive logic of an intelligence race, artificial intelligence often functions as a screen for dynamics of power, extraction, efficiency, and control.
Corollary to these critical inquiries, the Intelligence Design Lab functions as a central hub for experimental design practice, exploring production of new techniques leveraging the emergent medium provisionally termed intelligence under the sign of psychic interface: design of human-centered AI applications in software and beyond. The Lab integrates a virtual studio for sharing knowledge and work in progress, and collaborates with experts and technicians in its pursuit of maximal engagement and application of agentic tools. Members will depart with state-of-the-art project work in their chosen idiom expressly crafted through both direct enlistment of machine intelligence and interrogation of its status as technique.
Formally pathbreaking and natively transdisciplinary, the Program welcomes undergraduates, graduates, and mid-career professionals in design, architecture, digital media, computer science, and related fields.
REQUIREMENTS: All certificate students will complete ten credits of seminars with The New Centre, with a minimum of four having to be taught by the Programmer of their Certificate of choice. The two remaining credits will consist of a consultancy with our Organizer, Mohammad Salemy, and the proposal, production, and publication of at least one full-length essay in a reputable online or print periodical venue or a substantial artistic or curatorial project with a reputable institution. The Programmer will supervise this project in two meetings which must be scheduled after completing the Seminar credits requirements. The certificate Programmer will closely assist all Certificate Students in achieving these requirements and liaising with potential publications, project execution, and internship venues.
To apply, complete The New Centre's Application Form.
Scholarships
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The New Centre is dedicated to supporting academic excellence and fostering artistic and scholarly potential in people from all over the world. Our scholarships are designed to recognize achievement and intellectual rigor while ensuring that financial barriers do not stand in the way of education.
Every Season, we provide at least two full scholarships to deserving students through our scholarship application period. In addition, we provide dozens of partial scholarships (up to 80 per cent of tuition covered) to students in need. Applicants from the Global South automatically receive a 50 percent scholarship on our already affordable tuition fees. To apply, please complete this form and submit a writing sample alongside a cover letter outlining your intellectual interests and financial need.
We also offer full and partial scholarships to individual Seminars and Workshops regularly via our social media pages, usually a few weeks before each course is starting. Keep an eye on our communication channels to take advantage of those.
We invite students from all backgrounds to explore our financing options and to contact us to clarify any potential question. For more information, email admissions team at apply@thenewcentre.org.
Consultations
Since September 2017, The New Centre offers one-on-one Consultations sessions with its Programmers for the purpose of tutoring and academic advice. Our Researchers and Members can book these tutoring sessions in order to discuss questions and topics of interest that relate to their area of research. In addition, our Organizers and faculty are also available to provide academic advice, helping our Researchers and Members in articulating or achieving their career goals. These tutoring and academic advice Consultations can be booked for 160 USD per hour. Our Certificate Students receive 1.5 hours of free Consultation as part of their requirements and a special rate of 145 USD / hour for extra booking.
For more information please contact the Student Services.
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