Productive Archiving - Ernst van Alphen sculpture Drawn from decades of lived

Drawn from decades of lived experience

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” Commissioned essays and interviews from figures such as Francis Kéré

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Productive Archiving - Ernst van Alphen sculpture Drawn from decades of livedProductive Archiving discusses a variety of problems archival organizations. It mainly focuses on the following three issues with archival organizations that are usually overlooked: first, the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; second, the loss of individuality and specificity in the archive, the danger of homogenization; and third, that archiving may become a form of pigeonholing, boxing specific identities into a confined space.