Making Histories unfolds across three phases (Grounding, Making, Publics), each building toward our key public outcomes including exhibitions, public programs and publications. 

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What is history, and how is it made? 

 

Making Histories is guided by a counter-historical framework developed by the research team (Rousell et al 2025). The framework moves through three interwoven practices: 

 

• Beginning in Historical Ruins  

• Rupturing Historical Time, Sense and Representation 

• Re-assembling the Fragments of Historical Time and Experience  

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To make our thinking visible and shareable, Making Histories uses three connected ideas: 

 

• Streams story the flow of thought and events as our thinking changes over time. We work across three Streams (Curatorial, Historical and Pedagogical) with Ethics running through all three. Streams are not administrative divisions of labour, and they don’t move sequentially; they run concurrently, curve back on each other, and coalesce to bring insight from earlier phases into later ones. 

• Bubbles are the concepts, practices, conversations, readings and encounters that arise from the Streams; the ideas we’re working through at any given moment. 

• Ripples are the effects those Bubbles have, as they move out across place and time. 

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