Palace of Un/Learning

Palace of Un/Learning is an archive, a laboratory and breeding ground for counter-hegemonic practices to re/learn how we can live together - across scales from the city to our beds. By reading existing (built) structures differently, society will be enabled to create ambiguities, cracks and niches, where the "other" emerges - a transformative mix of strategies, typologies and vocabulary: queering, hacking, spongeing, commoning, provoking, negotiating, rave, salon, camp …
We propose three steps towards a (post-capitalist) future city infused by far more accessible, transformable, affordable, empowering and resource-efficient un/built structures for a most possible diverse urban society:

UN/LEARN is the search for another vocabulary and typologies. It aims to unlearn routines and norms which are determined through walls, floors and social ideals. It moves away from an architecture practice which has the idea of solving nowadays challenges with even more buildings while serving capitalist mechanisms of housing shortage and risk minimization through limiting diversity.

OPEN describes a collective practice whose histories are written by many. It is not about one exclusive definition of space, history and future. It aims towards a growing knowledge of how our built and lived futures could be, including other forms of cohabitiation with nonhuman existence. It's a call for action, for shapeable and uncoded architectures that stimulate to actively engage and to playfully overcome codes of design, society and aesthetics: flamboyant provocation and shameless claiming.

TRANSGRESS & NEGOTIATE
PALACE of UN/LEARNING is also a place of resistance that claims urgent changes by exhibiting and negotiating them. It can be a Wild Atlas of possible futures, a Living Manifest as love letter and a Radical Salon: collecting knowledge of the many, challenging the ruling and promoting political activist strategies for a different understanding of a sustainable architecture.