Stolen Pasts // Imagined Futures
art direction, interaction design, graphic design
Stolen Pasts // Imagined Futures is a speculative intervention in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), specifically in the Hall of African Peoples.
The project holds the AMNH responsible for the violence of colonization that is embedded in the act of collection and display. We honor the integrity of such objects and the people who authored them by:
Obscuring from view objects that were obtained violently or inequitably;
Providing extended information about the context and conditions of collection;
Imagining futures that take into account the traditions and evolutions of the people they rightfully belong to.