Creating a map and network of care units across the globe through Visual Assemblies
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The room of Giants
David’s teacher Marshall Sahlins came up with the idea of MetaPersons, collective entities like gods, ancestors, or nations, given agency and meaning in culture. They help people navigate social life by making abstract ideas relatable.

The Survival Kit Collection
The museum of care is organized around a collection called the Survival Kit, which focuses on the maintenance of human life rather than the preservation of art objects.

Visual Assembly as a Playground
Visual Assemblies rethink shared spaces—hospitals, schools, and playgrounds—exploring how we learn, work, care, and play together. A network of community-built playgrounds as Visual Assemblies could lay the foundation for collaboration and connection.

Islands in the Future
The David Graeber Institute is re-imagining an abandoned ship as an anti-colonial Museum of Care in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

APT/ART #2: MAKE CARNIVAL NOT WAR
Carnival and War are both ways of interacting with strangers. One embraces difference the other is just conflict. This exhibition explores both.

Reading group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s «Rabelais and His World»
Reading and discussion of David’s favorite book. This room is a continuation of the carnivalesque rooms and projects initiated by the Museum of Care and DGI. It combines the format of public talks and a closed reading group.

Fight club
David Graeber asserted that human consciousness only exists in dialogue with others, and the myth of the individual “thinker-philosopher” is nothing but a myth. David himself was often subjected to public attacks and withstood them with fortitude. Our fights will be between real people, imaginary people, or real people played by actors.

APT/ART: art for everyone, in the home and the neighbourhood
The opensource art gallery project with downloads to artwork, international collaboration and apartment art exhibition ideas.

Carnival: reading group and talks
This room is a continuation of the carnivalesque rooms and projects initiated by the Museum of Care and DGI. It combines the format of public talks and a closed reading group.