The Yefe Nof Residency (YNR) is intended to cultivate a generative dialogue between ideas. Writers, researchers, and designers compete to be selected for five annual sessions where they are given six weeks to finish projects that stimulate creative approaches to imagining solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Once the final products are released into the world they are collected at the house and build upon each other in an evolving idea network. In this way, future residents work through an augmented lens and have the opportunity to become multidisciplinary performers capable of influencing each other as they theoretically redesign their arguments.
The results will often yield arts and media productions like the one our inaugural resident is currently working on: a feature-length screenplay to be shot on location in Nepal in the summer of 2016. This project aims to promote the casting of Asians and Asian-Americans in the U.S. film industry and to test an innovative model for stimulating humanitarian assistance in countries affected by natural disaster.
