Museum of Queer Art Part 2 Project 2023 Luca Puzzoni London Metropolitan University | UK London based queer artists find themselves at the intersection of three discouraging phenomena: 1 - The prominent closure of queer venues at city level, hitting up to 60% businesses in 10 years.2 - The destabilizing pressure of gentrifying forces pushing artists out of the city, due to lack of accessible tools, making spaces and exposure.3 - The necessity to navigate through a history of queer art marked by iron curtains, biblioclasm and archive rooms. The Museum of Queer Art seeks to be in service of this community, challenging the social impact a cultural institution can obtain. It does so by providing not solely spaces for exhibiting queer art but rather propose a cluster of safe spaces for communal making, learning, organising, celebrating and archiving lgbtqia+ culture. Partly retrofit partly newbuilt, the proposal employs a demolition process that is integral to the proposed. The existing fabric is stripped of the recent additions of lower quality, in pursuit of a more legible, celebrated original fabric of masonry walls. This is assembled within a loose built environment that allows a permeable and accessible site from road to canal. A spatial experience of belonging where queer art, the party and the protest cannot be separated. Tutor(s) Kate Coghlan Andrea Hickey Pippa Nissen Marie-Lise Oulmont