Unsettling the City happened — and it was extraordinary. 

Thursday, March 26’s  online roundtable — rooted in the latest CAMOC Review Unsettling the City: Decolonial Approaches to Urban Memory and Museums — brought together ten contributors spanning five continents for one of the most honest, grounded conversations we have witnessed in a museum professional setting.

Our deepest gratitude to our hosts — Catherine C. Cole, Elka Weinstein, and Andréa Delaplace — for their care, rigour, and for ensuring every voice reached the room.

Highlights from the conversation:
🌍 From Lagos to Berlin to Kampen — city museums reckoning honestly with colonial wealth, slavery legacies, and whose stories have been erased from urban memory
🔮 Speculative and community-led practice in India and Mexico City as tools for reimagining who the museum belongs to
♿ Disability justice as a decolonial lens — the Taking Care Project at the Museum of Vancouver
🏛️ Hanna Pennock on the ICOM Working Group on Decolonisation — eight recommendations and the call for a Standing Committee
🇳🇿 Kahutoi Te Kanawa on the eternal threads of Māori and Pacific knowledge — and what climate displacement means for cultural memory
📜 The thread running through it all: the personal testimony is the evidence the archive suppressed

Enormous gratitude to our speakers and contributors: Paolo Araiza Bolaños (Mexico City), Christine Conciatori (Edmonton), Mabafokeng Hoeane (Pretoria), Suy Lan Hopmann (Berlin), Prachi Joshi (India), Nguye Flora Mutere (Nairobi), Hanna Pennock (Netherlands), Louisa Nnenna Onuoha (Lagos), Nynke van der Wal (Kampen), and Kahutoi Te Kanawa (Auckland).

Organised by ICOM CAMOC, ICOM Canada, and the Commonwealth Association of Museums — this is what international museum solidarity looks like.

If you missed it, the full recording is now on YouTube. Watch, share, and keep the conversation going.