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A two-day workshop with supported by architects and design scholars to develop a series of mobile prototypes for post-museum work in an era of increasing policing, of criminalisation of dissent and budget restriction.

The velocity of the current counter-revolution is generating a sense of powerlessness, provoking either some form of melancholic paralysis or the haste to act quickly. In the face of this acceleration-stasis, the daily creation of spaces and vernacular practices – temporary, ephemeral, or not – can offer forms of resistance and rehearsal of freedom in a world of unfreedom. However, in the age of renewed policing and surveillance, of criminalisation of dissent and budget restriction, many of these spaces and practices are under threat. Hence, the project of developing prototypes for the Post-Museum that will work around the multiple constraints of authoritarian governments, increased vulnerability and inequalities.

The objective of this workshop is to conceive 3 or 4 prototypes of a mobile structure for post-museum work. Why mobile? First, because a mobile structure may be necessary in the current context of increased policing and surveillance, budget restrictions, rising precarity and inequities, the steady creep of fascism, racism and Islamophobia, militarisation, and the velocity of these changes. Second, to free ourselves, as much as possible, from the Western hegemonic model with its series of intersected rooms and galleries designed to house a collection that needs to be preserved.

For this workshop, it will be essential to have current political, ideological and economic constraints in mind. Yet the prototype can have a utopian futuristic design (to counter the futurism that is currently offered by billionaire tech people). It will also be essential to think about the economy of the post-museum so that it does not repose on extraction and exploitation, on private sources of money able to impose their conditions, on underpaid and invisibilised work (cleaning, cooking, welcoming…).

We will imagine a prototype that can be put together and down in a short time, that can be put in the streets, in a square, in a public building, cheap, easy to build and dismantle, that can be adopted and adapted to different locales. In other words, a marooning structure.

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This training event is offered as part of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship. Read more about this fellowship and the programmes led by previous fellows.