The Museum of Care: Open-Source Survival Kit Collection

Day 2 22:05 Fuse en Art & Beauty
Dec. 28, 2025 22:05-22:45
Fahrplan__event__banner_image_alt The Museum of Care: Open-Source Survival Kit Collection
The Survival Kit Collection, launched by the David Graeber Institute, brings together collectives to develop “social technologies” for survival—spirulina farms, self‑replicating 3D printers, modular housing, and low‑cost water and solar solutions. By starting a conversation about open source technologies, the project aims to re-imagine technology on the basis of care to address today’s ecological and social crises. In 2019, together with David Graeber, we held the first workshop about the Museum of Care at CCC to reimagine the relation between freedom, technology and value. Over these 6 years, the Museum of Care has grown into a gathering place alive with ideas and resources curated by people from around the world. In our talk, we want to report on the work we have done at the museum.

We believe that humanity lives in a world of abundance, we already have the technologies for everyone to have enough of everything. All that remains is to change the values of our society. For this we need a Museum (of Care), because Museums are one of the key places that create, distribute and preserve social values.

What will be at the session: We'll tell in more detail about the concept of the Museum of Care on abandoned ships (of which, according to Maritime Foundation data, there are more than 4,500 in the world). We'll talk about the halls of our museum: the Hall of Giants and other ideas. We'll show videos and photographs from real projects — spirulina farms, self-replicating 3D printers — that we are in the process of setting up in Saint Vincent (Caribbean), as an example of how our museum will not only be proud that its exhibits spread around the world and return to it in modified form, but also that someday the entire Museum itself may be honored to be copied. We'll tell how the Museum of Care differs from ordinary museums: there is no permanent collection here, no fixed place, all projects are created to leave and multiply somewhere else.

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