diff --git a/content/2022/fhm-6-EN.md b/content/2022/fhm-6-EN.md index bb362c4f..3d003baa 100644 --- a/content/2022/fhm-6-EN.md +++ b/content/2022/fhm-6-EN.md @@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ Our guests will join online. As participants, you are very welcome to join in pe More details on what we will do and learn below. +**Shapeshifting Dreams: Practicing Towards Accessible Institutions**
+ ![A round pool of liquids holds multiple intertwined threads floating over and tangling with one another. Floating in the mess are the words “Collective Body”, “Server”, “Institution”, “Access”, “Email”, “Archive” each written in an illuminated script.](/images/access-server.jpeg) -**Shapeshifting Dreams: Practicing Towards Accessible Institutions**
In their talk MELT will discuss their ongoing project Access Server reflecting on their recent engagement with a fellowship at Het New Instituut. Access Server is an email server that anonymizes, collects and financially compensates access requests that disabled people send towards institutions. They will discuss disability justice and other theoretical frameworks that Access Server works with and builds upon, the engagement with the institution MELT was fellows with and the difficulties and possibilities this unveiled and their emerging practice of dreaming about accessible institutions. Structural ableism makes it difficult to do so many things. Dreaming up and planning for accessible institutions is one way that we practice towards an otherwise, where joyful and pleasurable accessibility is centered. **Bio**