For the 2025 edition, the OBEL Foundation—together with independent academics—has selected the following fellows under the Ready Made focus, based on joint proposals submitted in partnership with academic institutions:

Jesica Amescua Carrera and Mariana Ordóñez Grajales, who will be teaching at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. Their course is titled “Social Production and Management of Habitat: Convivial Aesth-ethics and Transformative Experiences”, which questions and subverts the dominant values of the market society that shape educational processes in architecture, moving toward forms of social production of knowledge where there is an ethical [principles and values] and political [relationships and practices] correlation between pedagogy, technology, and aesth-ethics.

Vanessa Lacaille and Mounir Ayoub, who will be teaching at ENAU, National School of Architecture and Urbanism in Carthage, Tunisia. With “Djérid, a ready-made resource”, they invite students to learn from djérid—a word referring to both the frond of the date palm and to the desert oasis region where it is cultivated—to experiment and imagine possible alternatives to the extractivist developmental model, and ultimately to take action on this land alongside those who live there. The aim of this transdisciplinary, participatory teaching project is to reactivate living knowledge—capable of nurturing a relational, situated and resistant architecture. At its core, this project seeks to carve out a territory of resistance.

With courses starting in 2026, all four OBEL Teaching Fellows and their institutions rely on the power of design to support and enhance change. By using both theoretical teaching and practical local cases to test ideas and solutions, their pedagogical programs will focus on who is already there and what is already there.