Emergent. A pandemic/post-pandemic museum (gallery)

The current pandemic has forced many galleries and museums to shut their doors for several months. These closures have created a void in social gatherings, cultural events and outgoings and have urged artists and cultural workers to rethink ways of making, exhibiting and bringing their work to the general public. In this project, we propose to free the gallery from the constraints posed by its traditional spatial and cultural configuration, as well as its new relocation online, by redesigning it as a multipurpose mobile object emerging in dialogue with the city and its population. The result is a complete rethinking of what the gallery space means and represents: in a disrupted world where the need for safety limits the need for physical interaction, the following probing questions emerge: How can we imagine alternative formats, new forms of interactions, new safer and more inclusive spaces? Can we take the gallery to the streets and turn it into an emergent space? What are the possible experiences it would generate? What new dialogues can a redesign of the gallery as a living, breathing entity foster?