The October edition of the Collective Dreaming Club will focus on architecture and on the ways in which it can make systemic inequalities visible. Together, we will dream about what kind of dialogue space and solidarity can engage in, and how architecture can support those whose voices are often unheard.
With architect and researcher Adéla Vavříková, we will imagine what the world might look like without prisons, and how the ideas of abolitionist feminism can be put into lived practice. Lydia Grešáková from the collective Spolka will then take us beyond the boundaries of conventionally perceived architecture by presenting the joint research project “Czech and Slovak Placemaking for the 99%.” Architectural theorists and historians Barbora Benčíková and Petra Hlaváčková will continue in a dialogue on how Brno could become a city for all. The evening will close with a collective panel discussion on the theme of “liberated space.”
The program will also feature a screening of short art films responding to public space in relation to architectural, ecological, and social issues, as well as interspecies coexistence in the city.
🎥 Sofie Gjuričova & Jasmina Lustigová: Sauna (2024), Arcade (2023)
🎥 Nikola Šmeralová, Marie Hantáková: Beaver Silence (2025)
The program is curated by Jana Mikuš Hanzelová and Amálie Bulandrová as part of the year-long series Collective Dreaming Club, dedicated to various approaches to fiction and fantasy as strategies of anticipatory imagination.
Once a month, on a Wednesday, the Club of Councillors will be transformed into a clubhouse of collective dreaming, where art, activism, and academia coexist and create new imaginative connections. Throughout 2025, public gatherings will take place here, all linked by the shared practice of imagining more-than-real forms of the contemporary world. The program of each event is prepared in dialogue with invited guests, who personally guide participants through a form of collective dreaming emerging from their artistic or research practice.