ABSTRACT
The chapter argues that the people can see the beginnings, or, in some cases, reasonably well-developed versions of this new social reality in our public museums. It provides a framework for thinking through these ideas. The chapter starts from Lefebvre's method of transduction; a research-led and collaborative process for making space and society. Transduction starts from the Utopian imagining of a 'possible-object', concrete analyses of the present reality and successful precedents from the past and is developed through a whole series of collaborative methods for imagining, producing and testing new spatial and social forms together. Whilst all four modes of making have resulted in incredible spatial and social landscapes and provide methods of design that can be reused and rethought in new contexts, a small number of approaches described here as co-production go much further in challenging and remaking the museum as institution.
