Imagining architecture, institutions, and our societies “at the end of the World,” proposes to follow Denise Ferreira da Silva at the end of this World, and urges a collective effort to dismantle systemic inequalities, racism, and colonial legacies. This epistemological shift from Eurocentrism, embraces alternative ways of conceiving, designing, and experiencing. It rejects linear Europe-centered history and calls for solidarity in dismantling oppressive systems, reevaluating our relationship with nature amidst environmental collapse.

We‘ll scrutinize Museums as institutions complicit in colonization, prompting redesigns for non-colonial relations with their collections. This prompts questions on the museum‘s purpose, the urgency of repatriation/rematriation, and envisioning culture beyond its exploitative forms. Our focus on sustainability and heritage in institutional and architectural practices imagines a future where museums shift their focus away from object acquisitions and possession. This perspective inspires positive, innovative solutions as we address pivotal questions in our journey.

Critical questions

How to denaturalize the uneven access to objects, knowledge, and the production of memories and histories? How to deal with (colonial) pasts and their violent histories, and which traces to keep of them? How to deal with spoiled and looted objects if they are not rematriated/repatriated, and which traces to keep of them when they are restituted? What spaces, uses, needs and practices emerge out of these politics, ethics and reparations? How to think spaces for restitution, conciliation, memory reconstruction, repair and