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Our guests will join online. As participants, you are very welcome to join in person - in Varia - or we can connect online too. The exercises planned for the workshop are possible to do inside Varia and/or through the screen.
Our guests will join online. As participants, you are very welcome to join in person - in Varia - or we can connect online too. The exercises planned for the workshop are possible to do inside Varia and/or through the screen.
More detail on what we will do and learn:
More details on what we will do and learn below.
![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)
![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**<br>
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.
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.