Please note: this is a private meeting and therefore not open for registration.

As environmental philosopher Thom Van Dooren puts it in his essay Life at the Edge of Extinction, “in a time of ongoing extinction and colonisation, a time in many ways characterised by interwoven patterns of biological and cultural loss, what does it mean to inherit responsibly?”

In response to this challenge, ARRG will host a special series of workshops and discussions with Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (DAAR), whose work centres on the politics of space and diverse struggles for justice and equality. DAAR is known for staging artistic research projects that respond to particular contexts and intervene in dominant narratives to actively pursue new political imaginaries. By thinking and learning with DAAR through open dialogue and creative exchange, the two-day event will transcend disciplines to consider the ethics and politics of inheritance across human and more-than-human worlds. Processes of inheritance cross the material, the symbolic, the cultural, the ecological, the architectural and the biotic.

DAAR’s interventions regularly challenge familiar patterns and ideas of inheritance by exploring alternative rituals of care, memory and heritage. In so doing, their work offers a particularly fertile ground to imagine radical new forms of ‘taking on’ and ‘passing down’ in moments of crisis or transition. Our introductory workshop at the VOC-Zaal will explore these themes with specific reference to this contested space.