Online workshop “Working with the Archive: Reflecting on Collective Research” with Hybrid Project Space

A workshop sharing experiences of working with archives and exploring how research materials can be organized, interpreted, and reimagined.

Drawing on their collective experiences, the first part of the workshop reflects on Hybrid Project Space’s work with a shared archive of notes, feedback, conversations, and documentation gathered through an interdisciplinary research project. Sharing their approach to this archive—the questions that emerged as they tried to organize, interpret, and give it form—Hybrid Project Space then invites a broader discussion about the archive as both a practical tool and a cultural structure that shapes knowledge and narratives.

Together, in the second part, participants explore how archives influence what is remembered, what becomes visible, and what remains excluded. You are invited to bring materials from your own practice—documents, images, notes, or any traces of a working process—to exchange and spark discussion. We will also draw on the archive on-site at DOCK art space.

Through discussion and hands-on reflection, the session creates space for rethinking how archives can function within artistic and research practices, including more experimental and collective approaches to engaging with archival material.

Event language: English with captions

Hybrid Project Space is an interdisciplinary research collective and creative platform dedicated to fostering inclusivity in art and cultural spaces. We amplify diverse perspectives to design strategies that challenge cultural norms and build meaningful connections. Hybrid Project Space is a collective of people from the fields of museum studies, curation, media production, art, architecture, and graphic design. Founded in 2023 and based in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, the nonprofit association Hybrid Project Space is dedicated to promoting accessibility and diversity in art and culture. It aims to increase the visibility of process-oriented formats and actors addressing questions of participation and diversity in art and cultural spaces. Hybrid Project Space consists of Nahom Mehret, Laura Schläpfer, Ananda Jade, Gourav Neogi, Semaya Mehret, and Edward Wang.

This is the registration for online participation. Do you want to participate on-site in Basel? Register here instead: https://app.tickettailor.com/events/futuress1/2346077

The Engaging Publics series

This event is part of the free hybrid Engaging Publics workshop series exploring community-based research from facilitation, process-documentation, engaged writing, and more.

Registrations will open a month ahead.

June 20, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | Workshop | online and at DOCK Basel
Practices of Regard: Images, Memories, Words
with Darcy Alexandra (she/her), Visual Anthropologist, Filmmaker & Poet

Sep 5, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | Workshop | online and at DOCK Basel
Public Fictions: Methods for (World)Building Different Futures
with Ann Mbuti (she/her), Independent Writer

Sep 19, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | Workshop | online and at DOCK Basel
Working with the Archive: Reflecting on Collective Research
With Hybrid Project Space, Interdisciplinary Collective

Oct 17, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | Workshop | online and at DOCK Basel
Letters I Never Sent: Yearning in Science Fiction
With Sherida Kuffour(she/her), Art Director, Design Educator & Publisher

Oct 31, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | Workshop | online and at DOCK Basel
The Language of Art: Celebrating Connection Through Doing Art
With Habib Afsar (he/none), Expressive Arts Practitioner, Relational Artist & Public Health Physician

Nov 07, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | Workshop | on-site only at DOCK Basel
Co-Producing Publics: Questioning, Performative Acts, and Temporary Interventions
With Circuit Sessions Collective
and Eva Chen (she/her) Scenographer & Art Educator

Except for the on-site-only workshop in November, all events can be accessed online via Zoom or on-site at DOCK cultural space in Basel, Switzerland.

This program is made possible thanks to generous grants from the Culture Department of the Kanton Basel-Stadt and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.