Rooms

“We need to see the value in the sort of labor we would only really want humans to do.”

David Graeber

The main goal of the Museum of Care is to produce and maintain social relationships. We are here to help, share, and be together. New rooms, new curators, and new visitors are always welcome. 

Museum of Care as a project

This room contains information about the Museum of Care as a project: its history, its rules, its development.

Bullshit Job Games

This project opens up way to promote and discuss Bullshit Jobs, using satirical and playful means to take Bullshit Jobs to a wider audience as the theory becomes more and more relevant.

Collectivity

This room discusses different forms of collectivity that exist in our time and has existed in history.

EVERYDAY CARNIVAL

This room is an experiment. Can we protect our vulnerability and maintain our openness by playing with identity?

First Aid Kit Against Neoliberalism

We have created this first aid kit as a tool that we hope will help against the disempowerment caused by neoliberalism’s consequences for society and nature, with a mixture of things for comfort and countermeasures.

Reading groups

Discussions around David Graeber’s texts are organized by members of the community of the Museum of Care.

ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP

“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”. David Graeber

Library of Care

Here’s a list of some books from David’s library and other texts. Enjoy!

DAVID GRAEBER AND HIS PHILOSOPHERS

We are organising, under the patronage of Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute, a series of public lectures on the philosophical foundations of the work of David Graeber, whose death in September 2020 was an enormous shock and left a void in anthropology and far beyond the discipline.

5000 Years of Debt

The room is dedicated to the discussion of the concept of debt as present in David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” as well as in other texts.

Coversations of Care

Conversations of Care are monthly meetings with invited speakers

Fight club

Real and imagined conversations with David Graeber

Confederation: Mastodon

The David Greaber Institute’s Mastodon server is up and running. I hope it will be useful to some.

Visual Assembly

Visual Assembly is a set of tools to re-imagine our social systems.

Another Art World: reading group and discussion

This group emerged from the events, discussions, dialogues that took place around a series of essays written by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky

APTART

Home Exhibitions and Concerts in Rowley Way London, inspired by the Soviet tradition of apartment exhibitions.

BRAIN TRUST CULINARY COLLECTION

Brain Trust dinners will consist of 6 dinners during 2023 with guest chefs, each of whom will publicly prepare a meal using ingredients that will be available outside of industrial agriculture or the big supermarket distribution system.

Books and Stories

This room is a meeting room for people who would like to share books they’ve read. You can suggest meeting topics and if there are more than 5-6 people willing to share stories about books they’ve read, we’ll organize a meeting.

Conservation Lab

How might a reconfigured conservation cross pollinate and inform an experimental and collaborative practice dedicated to nurturing and maintaining alternative material/social relations?

What is anthropology?

This room was set up to host discussions of what anthropology is and how it changed over time, to publish David’s lectures, and to have discussions and panels.

Carnival4David

Carnival is the place where everything is turned upside down, where freedom and the possibilities of changing social orders and prescribed roles reign.

Documentary

Research of the decision-making process