University Offers "Idleness Grants" -- Money for Doing Nothing

The University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany is offering three grants, each of which pays the equivalent of $1,887 to people who will commit to doing nothing. The Guardian describes the grant application:

The application form consists of only four questions: What do you not want to do? For how long do you not want to do it? Why is it important not to do this thing in particular? Why are you the right person not to do it?

The premises of the project are to promote human sustainability by inaction and to question the assumption that activity is good:

The idea behind the project arose from a discussion about the seeming contradiction of a society that promotes sustainability while simultaneously valuing success, Von Borries said. “This scholarship programme is not a joke but an experiment with serious intentions – how can you turn a society that is structured around achievements and accomplishments on its head?” [...]

All applications will form part of an exhibition named The School of Inconsequentiality: Towards A Better Life, opening at the Hamburg university in November. It will be structured around the question: “What can I refrain from so that my life has fewer negative consequences on the lives of others?”

-via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Pixabay