Drafting Coexistence: Porous Temporalities in Museum Spaces proposes to consider the cultural institution as a permanent draft. The research focuses on the temporalities inhabiting museums and exhibition spaces, investigating how these shape behaviors, forms of participation, and hierarchies of knowledge. Modes of access and knowledge transmission become experimental elements rather than fixed structures, aiming to define cultural mediation as an embodied, relational practice. The research seeks to open an “off-field” of the institution, where time does not flow linearly or productively, but is distributed among human and more-than-human presences, visitors, materials, memories, and unexpected uses. 

Collaborative workshops, reading groups, and performative exercises will activate the project as an open program, developed in dialogue with the community of Scuola Piccola Zattere. Rather than producing a finalized outcome, the research aims to test devices of play and aggregation capable of re-embedding time—and the institution itself—to the living, imagining replicable forms of mediation and new possibilities for coexistence.

The research emerges from the curatorial practice of Lisa Andreani, an independent curator and PhD candidate, rooted in the study of archives and marginal figures, oriented toward generating unconventional narratives through participatory projects and educational formats. 

Ph. Valerio Di Lucente