An Absolute Truth? Part 2 Project 2020 Matt McCluskey Mackintosh School of Architecture | UK In a near and not implausible future where society’s descent into a maelstrom of misinformation has obliterated the boundary between fact and fiction, an Institute of Political Objectivity is proposed as a global exemplar in Antwerp. The international outcry against King Leopold II’s abhorrent reign over the Congo Free State informs the proposal’s objectives: the holding of political parties and figures to account; and the promotion of objectivity within the global political system through dialectic teaching, active discourse, and procedural transparency.Intrinsically linked volumes comprised of Accommodation for Visiting Experts, Galleries and Exhibition Spaces, and Debate Spaces, facilitate discourse and the pursuit of objective truth through the examination of all hypotheses, as asserted in Plato’s Analogy of the Divided Line. A subterranean, digital archive holds a record of all events within the building, in order to safeguard objective information and hold the Institute itself to account. Matt McCluskey Tutor(s) Neil Simpson