Homebaked Archive/Trainings for the Not-Yet
Exhibition installation, Collective training, Community archive
Developed as part of ‘Trainings for the Not-Yet’ exhibition (Jeanne van Heeswijk, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst) and co-funded by Arts Council England.
Homebaked archive learning object developed by Britt Jürgensen, Jeanne van Heeswijk and URBED Architects.
It features works by Catherine Dalton, Peter Carney, Tim Brunsden, Fred Brown and Jeanne van Heeswijk.
Training leads were Angela McKay (Homebaked Bakery), Sam Jones (Homegrown Collective) and Tom Murphy (Homebaked CLT).
Training in collaboration with De Nieuwe Meent (Selçuk Balamir), de Kasko (Joska Ottjes), Refugee Collective We Are Here, Elke Uitentuis, Ethel Baraona Pohl, and Irene Calabuch Mirón
Homebaked CLT and Co-operative Bakery were invited to participate in the exhibition Trainings for the Not-yet to contribute with a ‘learning object’ in the form of an archive and as co-creators of the week long training unit ‘Decommodifying Housing: How to Get There?’
Trainings for the Not-Yet is a project by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jeanne van Heeswijk in collaboration with many others. An exhibition that unfolds through a series of trainings in civic engagement, radical collectivity, and active empowerment, the project brings together collaborators from various fields and communities to create and practice alternative imaginings of being together in the face of the pressing emergencies that shape the world today.
Archive learning object
Raised above a taped floor plan of one of the terraces Homebaked CLT is developing, the archive structure is made from movable cardboard elements containing texts, artefacts, sound recordings and videos which the many people that shaped Homebaked have brought together for the first time. Trainings for the Not-yet provided Homebaked CLT and Homebaked Co-operative Bakery with the opportunity to pause and reflect on their history. This presents a complex set of challenges: How does one narrate a story of a collective, poly-perspectival, and multi-talented effort? Who has the authority - and who can choose a perspective to speak from - to narrate sucha tale? How to tell the stories meshed together into a collaboration at the ‘scale of life’? In response to these dilemmas, the archive is constructed so as to stay open and be in continuous motion: it can be assembled and reassembled as a training ground of knowledge, experience and empowerment in struggles for housing and in building alternative, solidarity-driven economies.
The object is accompanied by a timeline detailing moments in time of importance in the efforts of Homebaked, embedded in an exploration of the many movements and initiatives that form the legacy of these kind of struggles.
The archive was exhibited as part of Trainings for the Not-Yet at BAK - basis foor in Utrecht and in Anfield as part of the Dead Pigeon exibition in Homebaked CLT’s project space in Anfield.
Collective training: Decommodifying Housing: How to Get There?
How to undo—and then get rid of—a model in which housing has become a commodity? Decommodifying Housing: How to Get There? is a training in which different collectives that work toward radical alternatives of making housing livable, affordable, and egalitarian share their experiences and strategies. In the context of a housing crisis that presents itself on an international scale, participants worked together on identifying the commonalities of various local struggles, aiming to form alliances and start a process of mutual learning. What can be done to shape a post-capitalistic housing model?
During four days of discussion, exchange and hands-on activity, this training developed a collaborative public document to share accumulated insights, in order not only to strengthen the projects of those involved, but also plant the seeds of future understanding and collaboration.