Parliament of Parallel Futures brings together artists, architects, designers, and researchers who approach institutions not only as stable political structures but also as cultural and spatial forms that can be critically reimagined.

Across imagined museums, agonistic assemblies, diagrammatic chambers, and curatorial pavilions, the event explores how Europe’s democratic architectures might be examined, staged, and reconfigured through artistic and design practices. Rather than treating institutions as fixed frameworks, the contributors engage them as sites of experimentation – testing how authority, representation, and collective decision-making might be organised differently.

Each contribution activates a temporary ‘parliament’ within the space: a concrete arrangement of objects, diagrams, and presentations that invites reflection on the symbolic and spatial dimensions of democratic life. The programme moves from analyses of existing institutional landscapes toward more speculative methods for rethinking them. In the afternoon, the discussion opens into a participatory lab where participants sketch and test their own unreal institutions.