Art & Beauty

The Museum of Care: Open-Source Survival Kit Collection

Nika Dubrovsky
The talk is about the ideas behind setting up the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care. The Survival Kit Collection brings together collectives developing open source "social technologies" —spirulina farms, self-replicating 3D printers, modular housing, low-cost water systems, and ... art and education. In 2019, together with David Graeber, we held the first workshop about the Museum of Care at CCC to reimagine the relation between freedom, technology and value. Over these 6 years, the Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute have experimented with various projects: the survival collection, Visual Assembly, and creating an open space for horizontal knowledge production—something we hope to develop into an actual University.
We believe that humanity lives in a world of abundance, we already have the technologies for everyone to have enough of everything. All that remains is to change the values of our society. For this we need a Museum (of Care), because Museums are one of the key places that create, distribute and preserve social values. What will be at the session: We'll tell in more detail about the concept of the Museum of Care on abandoned ships (of which, according to Maritime Foundation data, there are more than 4,500 in the world). We'll talk about the halls of our museum: the Hall of Giants and other ideas. We'll show videos and photographs from real projects — spirulina farms, self-replicating 3D printers — that we are in the process of setting up in Saint Vincent (Caribbean), as an example of how our museum will not only be proud that its exhibits spread around the world and return to it in modified form, but also that someday the entire Museum itself may be honored to be copied. We'll tell how the Museum of Care differs from ordinary museums: there is no permanent collection here, no fixed place, all projects are created to leave and multiply somewhere else.

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Live Stream https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/fuse
Type Talk
Language English

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