This studio course examines museums, design, and architectural practices as contested sites shaped by colonial histories, extraction, and unequal power relations. While museums have long framed themselves as caretakers of cultural heritage, for many BIPOC communities they function as institutions of displacement, erasure, and possession. Through critical research, material experimentation, and collaborative making, students investigate how colonial legacies persist across design processes, systems of display, and institutional narratives.
- Instructor: Ernest Jolly