The RCMC is organised around four main threads of activities/outputs: fellowships, public events, community-based projects and publications. These are guided by revolving themes that we believe are urgent for the museum, as well as for society.
Our past research themes were founded on questions of care/repair, gender, planetary histories, migration, Indigeneity in a (European) museum context, and the question of community. For this next period, we continue these inquiries, but with greater focus on issues of history writing, play, the question(ings) around hospitality, and abundance. This last two themes also profoundly inform our ongoing conversation about the ethics of our practices within the museum, a conversation which we hope to facilitate across our organization.
Our projects are also at times more conceptually oriented, in that we are thinking through the intellectual histories that have and continue to shape us as a museum and as society. Our hope is to rethink all of these research themes and concepts, along with the histories of photography, fashion and design, as global movements. We are committed to engage various trajectories of arts and philosophies, as they have existed and intersected across the globe. In this way, we seek to decentralise Europe and European epistemologies as we try to give a platform and voice to makers and thinkers from the whole world.
