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an office

Welcome to an office. The appropriation of the concept of an office, with its problematic history in the many colonial-capitalist trajectories that shape its genealogy, has emerged as a flexible structure for our group that allows for adaptation (almost) without limits. It is from this capacity of allowing any kind of initiative to form, merge, upgrade, disappear, and so forth, that we are working with it in a non-innocent way. We understand how offices are the spaces where the powerful exercise and manage their power, where they make plans and decisions, spaces that carry the legacy of chanceries, of colonial consulates, as necessary sites for the endeavors of hegemony. On the contrary, we are summoning the office as infrastructure from the position of learning-with and -within instead of enforcing power, from an open and fluid space instead of a fenced settlement, a collaborating hub instead of a hierarchic organigram. As we see it, an office is a site to cherish and learn with the values of Lumbung that include generosity, humor, local anchoring, independence, regeneration, transparency, and frugality.