Reading about fire is different from embracing its warmth. But too close, and you're burned by its flames.
At UKAI Projects, we navigate the irresolvable when no decision feels perfect.
Welcome to
UKAI Projects
We are a not-for-profit Canadian arts and cultural research organization founded in 2017.
Since our founding, we have designed, prototyped, and implemented programs, research projects, and artistic productions aimed not only at exploring new ways for the arts to create meaning for the public, shape social and cultural change, and foster collective imagination in Canada and around the world.
Partnering with us means leading with curiosity and facing uncertainty with courage.
We do culture for what’s coming
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Innovation is stuck in a loop. Cultural R&D is the open field beyond: it is the refusal of lazy cycles and the welcoming of expansive imagination and all our senses to provoke alternate ways of living, working, and creating together.
When things feel impossible or irrelevant or inevitable, cultural R&D is a re-engagement to life, creation, and meaning—a call to continue alongside the chaos.
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The world is no longer charming. From the more-than-human, the all-too hyper, and the lifelessly sanitized, the obstacles are many in connecting us and our world.
We create encounters that deeply enchant people who enter a lived-in world. As an array of mess and order, known and unknown, comfort and challenge, the lived-in world is a buoy for random resonance to renew curiosity and action.
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The future is uncertain. We design functional methods and processes that develop agency and creative autonomy, while simultaneously building supportive space for open experimentation and action.
By orienting openness, our methods and processes are thoughtfully developed on the ground and become symbiotic responses that are resilient in evolving context.
RFP
Many institutions invest in creativity.
Fewer allow it to change them.
UKAI Projects has launched a Request for Partnership (RFP) for eligible organizations and institutions across all public and private sectors. Engagement terms range from one week to six months. Ideal partners are those navigating accelerating change, symbolic breakdowns, and systemic fatigue.
This Request for Partnership invites you to rehearse a different kind of relationship—with artists, with your own systems, and with the unknown.
Collaborators and Partners
Our work is trusted by organizations and funding partners in Canada and around the world, from cultural programming to research and development.
