The Dreamers’ Institute Part 2 Project 2020 Sarah Harding University of Johannesburg | South Africa “The Dreamers’ Institute” investigates, navigates and dances around an everyday space that, at first glance, seems to be politically neutral. Identifying the bed as a device through which political ideology operates, the bed becomes a lens through which we can view the world at large. The work demonstrates with deft observations and innovative representation how this everyday piece of infrastructure is choreographed to meet rather extreme levels of racial, class and gender subjugation.Accessing the private space of the bedroom through critical studies of film, literature and theory, the project unravels the operations, rituals and tactics of the bed, with the intention of building an inventive architectural vocabulary that challenges conventional means of representation, and opens up new ways of seeing everyday spaces.Thus, the work seeks to construct new rituals and codes that don’t rely on destructive hierarchies, in the hope of yielding agency that is fully implicated in embodiment. The project envisions spatial solutions that rewrite the possibilities of the bed, dissolving ideological tensions in consensual and nuanced ways. Tutor(s) Thireshen Govender