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On the occasion of the UN’s 75th anniversary in 2020, ALI worked with Culturunners, the World Council of Peoples for the UN, and UN75 on a series of dialogues convened by the UN of some of the leading arts and culture institutions in the US, including among others MoMA, the Met, the Guggenheim, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Queens Museum.

The purpose of these dialogues at first was to use the convening power of the UN to push the art and culture sector to take a leading role in meeting and exceeding the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and address the climate and ecological crisis. What began as a medium term strategy discussion became urgent with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in Feb/March 2020. With the relevance and viability of art museums suddenly called into question, the ‘Future is Unwritten Museums Meetings’ series took on an urgency and became a platform for ideation, re-evaluation, and collective strategizing, pushing arts institutions to action on behalf of their communities.

ALI was a participant, facilitator, and reporter for these meetings - analyzing the free-wheeling discussion for embedded structures, ideas, and patterns - and reflected these findings back to the participants with a synthesis of recommendations and next step, ensuring these important discussions did not end when the Zoom calls did.

Two sample reports are linked below.