The Garage School of Prepping Otherwise: Collective Learning in Practice

‘The Garage School of Prepping Otherwise: Collective Learning in Practice’ brings together tools, methodologies, speculations, and play in response to the question: “What Can It Mean to Survive Together?” Hosted at Kunstinstituut Melly as its 2025–26 Collective Learning in Practice programme, the school brought together fourteen co-learners and invited guests to explore collective preparedness amid polycrises, militarisation, and growing calls to ‘prep’. Rejecting individualistic approaches to survival, the programme explored health, infrastructure, archiving, collapse, food, imagination, and relations. Its outcomes offer pedagogical tools, methodologies, insights, and games for approaching survival collectively, with curiosity, solidarity, and imagination.