Rustom Bharucha

Day 2 motto: Mapping Desires

Speaker Rustom Bharucha, Professor, International Fellow of the British Academy London, Kolkata, India

"Expanding the Museum-making Imaginary: Learning to Learn from Ecology"

Bharucha brings a deeply insightful perspective on how ecological thinking can expand the ways we imagine and shape museums today.

In his talk, “Expanding the Museum-making Imaginary: Learning to Learn from Ecology,” Bharucha draws on principles of impermanence, humility, and attention embedded in traditional floor-drawing practices. Rather than reinforcing inherited colonial models of the museum, he explores how these principles might catalyze new processes of museum-making, particularly in contexts shaped by scarcity, erasure, and the absence of professional infrastructure.