About
Lab for Radical Museum Futures is a convener and platform for museum workers to nurture creativity and imagination within our field. We do this by imagining museum futures through writing, drawing and other narrative mediums.
We expand upon worlds written by our predecessors in radical imagination. We ask: What would a museum’s purpose be in this world? For these beings? By these beings? What impact would the nature of this world be on a museum, and the nature of a museum on this world? When we create our own stories—you might call them fan-fic—we generate alternate histories, art periods, forms of science and experimentation, museum practice and operations, museum site and experiences. As we create and share within our collective, we define museology in an alternate world. Slowly and steadily, our radical visions will redefine our current one.
Write science fiction as if it’s happening in your neighborhood.
—Octavia Butler
Tenets
include the experience of all types of stakeholders, not just power-brokers
emphasize clarity
over certainty
lean into action
consciously use alternative knowledge
create the future over predicting it
add our visions of the future into existing change efforts