For the fourth edition of the OBEL Teaching Fellowships, the OBEL Foundation
is granting teaching fellowships of up to €75,000 and invites prospective fellows from around the world to apply in partnership with a host institution. The taught courses will preferably begin in 2027 (or soon thereafter) and revolve around the 2026 OBEL focus: Systems’ Hack. The aim is to foster deeper exploration, development, and dissemination of knowledge on this key topic within the built environment.

The 2026 cycle of the fellowship program seeks to provide the funding necessary so that universities may incorporate new voices into the institution to develop impactful courses relating to how architects can expose, infiltrate and reconfigure entrenched systems — not by rejecting them, but by transforming how they function. The theme asks whether architecture can become an active part of ecological and social systems, operate within planetary boundaries, and help reshape the networks of production, governance and influence it relies on.

Read about the Systems’ Hack focus here.

The joint applications (potential fellow and host institution) are due at midnight
CEST on 1 August 2026. APPLY HERE