A new public programme by HOUSE OF DREAD, commissioned by the Southbank Centre

What does it mean to curate your way through the world?

Bringing together artists, young people, cultural workers and communities, Curating Otherwise explores curating as a lived, collective practice. The programme starts from the belief that curating happens wherever people shape culture - through the stories they tell, the spaces they create, the sounds they carry, the communities they build and the futures they imagine. Curating Otherwise creates space to recognise these practices, connect them, and explore what they might become.

Grounded in HOUSE OF DREAD's anti-disciplinary methodology, the programme centres listening, gathering and reasoning as curatorial practices. Each encounter begins with a provocation drawn from Southbank Centre's archives, histories or public spaces, opening new ways of reading the past and imagining cultural futures. Participants bring their own experiences, references and cultural knowledge into the conversation, building a shared language for curating together.

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