about
The Ark is an annual living laboratory. We build a dome in Armenia from local materials, in this climate. Then we leave it for year for human and non-human visitors and co-creators.
The Ark we build grows through relation. A dome shaped by people, weather, living matter, and time — one cycle of building, observing, and adopting.
hosq holds the project: a creative institution and foundation in Armenia that runs laboratories and education programs, a public and professional network, and research and fellowship initiatives.
The Ark we build grows through relation. A dome shaped by people, weather, living matter, and time — one cycle of building, observing, and adopting.
hosq holds the project: a creative institution and foundation in Armenia that runs laboratories and education programs, a public and professional network, and research and fellowship initiatives.
- Participants | 30-40Across architecture, environmental science, design, art, technology, movement, writing, local crafts.
- Laboratory | 12 daysLiving in tents surrounded by mountains of Armenia includes recalibration with the life there, constant correspondence with climate and weather, observing, building, discussing, adopting and changing.
August–September 2027 - Festival | 2 days, 1 nightPresentation, conversations, music, food and workshops in and around the dome.
September 2027
netwrok
- CommunityAn evolving dome in Dilijan, Armenia is the first node of a global network. Community that experience itself locally with those with whom you build and with those who build their own Ark in their space. Network community that's build around shared philosophy and research rather than territory and borders.
- The Ark ManualMethods, sketches, tools, and questions collected into the online archive that we update each year and through the year. It becomes the meeting point and inspiration for those who wants to enter the community and build their own Ark. Each new Ark adds its own findings.
- NetworkThe network grows through lived practice. Тут чтото нужно, может правильнее разделить инфу между Community и этим столбцом.
2027
The first Ark
Dilijan, August 2027
The first Ark opens in Dilijan in August 2027: ten days of laboratory, then a public festival. In spring 2028 the methods leave the site as The Ark Manual.
We are looking for 30-40 architects, artists, scientists, and designers working across computing architecture, environmental science, sustainable design & technology, bio-art, bio-philosophy, movement, and local crafts.
We are looking for 30-40 architects, artists, scientists, and designers working across computing architecture, environmental science, sustainable design & technology, bio-art, bio-philosophy, movement, and local crafts.
Open-call
November 2026
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Laboratory
August–September 2027
Festival
September 2027
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Location: Dilijan, Armenia
Format: Art & Science Laboratory
Open call: March–June 2027
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Manual: Spring 2028
November 2026
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Laboratory
August–September 2027
Festival
September 2027
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Location: Dilijan, Armenia
Format: Art & Science Laboratory
Open call: March–June 2027
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Manual: Spring 2028
how
Work starts from attention to place, weather, and the people in the room. Materials and living matter are partners in the process.
- Co-creationPractice develops through shared actions. Relations between all actors.
- AttentionConditions guide action. Weather, light, and living matter set the rhythm of the work. We read context instead of imposing direction.
- ReciprocityPractice creates value for people and place. Through shared presence, learning, and exchange.
- MaterialsWe build with what is local and steady enough to last. Decisions follow grounded methods that support the long-term life of the dome.
- OpennessWhat we find stays accessible. Methods and insights enter The Ark Manual and support future Arks — shared practice.
The Ark Manual is a living archive of methods, observations, and approaches shaped on site.
It holds how we build, observe, and decide together; tools and small inventions born during the lab; shared sensitivities — ways of reading weather, timing, and each other; questions that guide the next editions.
Each new Ark adds its own findings, versions, and experiences. The Manual becomes a long-term method carried by many teams across many years — not a standard to copy, but a practice to continue.
First release: Spring 2028
It holds how we build, observe, and decide together; tools and small inventions born during the lab; shared sensitivities — ways of reading weather, timing, and each other; questions that guide the next editions.
Each new Ark adds its own findings, versions, and experiences. The Manual becomes a long-term method carried by many teams across many years — not a standard to copy, but a practice to continue.
First release: Spring 2028
lineage
The old ark was a closed boat: one man, a chosen few, life taken from its ground. This one stays on the land, shares what it learns, and is built and looked after by many.
- Biosphere 2Arizona, USA.
Built as a closed ecological experiment, it now works as a climate research lab — a way of understanding Earth as a single organism. - Ecocentro IPECBrazil.
A living campus of permaculture, energy, and architecture, where education is practiced as coexistence with the environment. - Eden ProjectCornwall, UK.
Vast biomes that turn architecture into a living classroom and a habitat for planetary awareness.
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Leave your email and we’ll write when the open call opens in March 2027.
Date: August–September 2027
Venue: Dilijan, Armenia
Format: Art & Science Laboratory
Venue: Dilijan, Armenia
Format: Art & Science Laboratory
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partners
Partnerships
Art · science · ecology
The Ark grows through exchange with those who already work between art, science, and ecology. Partnerships are an exchange of experience, tools, and perspectives — a living network where ideas move across contexts.
As the project develops, new partners may appear through practice itself: those who choose to build their own Arks, guided by the same philosophy. Each new Ark is autonomous, and part of the shared ecosystem.
As the project develops, new partners may appear through practice itself: those who choose to build their own Arks, guided by the same philosophy. Each new Ark is autonomous, and part of the shared ecosystem.
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