About

The Think Tank that has yet to be named initiates site-specific conversations, performative actions, and educational projects that interrogate contemporary urban issues in the places where we encounter them. As a critical praxis, the Think Tank was formed by several individuals who saw themselves and their creative practices being implicated in the dilemma of contemporary urban (re)development strategies—that is, gentrification. With the realization that the so-called “artist” is often a hapless, or even willing, tool of the hipster-fication, sanitization, and homogenization of urban space, we were compelled to critically acknowledge our roles as gentrifiers and subsequently interrogate and challenge this condition.

The Think Tank is comprised of several Departments, each led by a single Director. There can be no Department without a Director, and there can be no Director without a Department. Directors are both autonomous agents and cooperative collaborators. In this respect, the Think Tank has no members, only directors. The declaration of a directorship in a Department amounts to a statement of that individual’s bias and agenda. Nothing is more offensive to the Think Tank than the pretense of neutrality.
—Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Meaning (DIM)

Departments (past and present)

  • Dept. for the Investigation of Authenticity (DIA)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Cross-Pollination (DICP)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Documentary Subjectivity (DIDS)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Ecological Subjectivity (DIES)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Failure (DIF)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of InterSubjectivity (DIIS)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Meaning (DIM)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Metaphorical Agency (DIMetA)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Neutrality & Palatability (DINP)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Radical Pedagogy (DIRP)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of ReHumanization (DIRH)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of the Structure of Expectations (DISE)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Tactical Education (DITE)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of Tactical and Strategic Alignment (DITSA)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of the Unmentionable and the authentic (DIUM/a)
  • Dept. for the Investigation of the Unthinkable (DIUT)

Contact directors at thinktank.boxwith.com

* DIM/DIDS is the Managing Director of the project that is this web site, thinktank.boxwith.com.