Gossip After Hours: A Storytelling Workshop with Museum Objects

heeten bhagat was born in Zimbabwe. Presently, he oscillates between Cape Town and any place that involves long-distance travel. He works in the emerging terrain of ‘pracademics’, nurturing collaborations and design experiments between academia and real-life systems. He designs pragmatic and provocative programming to support decolonial and diversity-expanding processes in overlooked and underserved environments. Key to this work is troubling superimposed systems of scholarship, catalysing the minutiae so as to propose alternate learning processes. His experience encompasses a broad set of disciplines that range from art history to urban studies, architecture to fashion and sociology to museology, and spans the learning spectrum – rural, community and informal spaces through to established cultural and academic institutions. His research interests revolve around setting up sites of experiment to play to test out speculative, imaginative and transdisciplinary aspirations. The broad range of his experience recommends him into these spaces in formation, that are looking to engage dissonance as a way to activate pathways towards inspired productivities.