Museum as Parliament
1:1 Model / Parliament
Title | Museum as Parliament
Concept | Jonas Staal
Commissioned by | Studio Jonas Staal
Type | 1:1 Model / Parliament
Date | 2018-ongoing
Location | Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Architecture | Paul Kuipers
Graphic Design | Remco van Bladel
Production Coordinator | Younes Bouadi
Construction | Koert Verberne & Leendert Brandt
Photography | Ernie Buts
Images process | Paul Kuipers
Text | Jonas Staal
Museum as Parliament
Museum as Parliament is a reconstruction of the People’s Parliament of Rojava in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, developed by Studio Jonas Staal in collaboration with the Democratic Federation of North-Syria and the Kurdish Cultural Foundation Eindhoven.
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Museum as Parliament aims to introduce the ideals of the Rojava revolution to a wider public and build alliances with emancipatory political organizations, civic platforms, activist groups and cultural workers, from Kurdistan to the Netherlands. In a time of increasing democratic crises that have turned our parliaments into theaters, the project proposes to turn the theater – the museum – into an alternative people’s parliament instead.