Can architecture, a discipline defined by constraint, constantly reinvent itself via undisciplined creative utopias, architects, and modes of use? Between the political advent of the Enlightenment and that of 20th century totalitarianism, where do we stand in the art of “voluntary inservitude” and “reflexive indocility”? The philosopher Guillaume le Blanc invites us to address these questions, and the exhibition inservitude explores the question of freedom as an essential raw material for architecture that offers potential alternatives.

Inservitude brings together a selection of international projects, including Forensic Architecture’s Destruction and Return in al-Araqib, in which thinking and architecture express an alternative vision of the world, treading unexplored paths that lead to places where the unexpected, freedom and beauty converge.