The Hologram

A network of practitioners who take part in a system of non-expert healthcare. In this system each person gets support from 3 other people, while giving support to one other person. This means that everyone cares and is cared for.

Goal

As the racist, capitalist and patriarchal world crumbles around us The Hologram collectivizes healthcare. It aims to be a solid, long-lasting new form of care that ensures that our species can outlast the ongoing social, economic and planetary emergencies.

Target audience(s)

1. All people who can use support 2. All people who are already supporting others, caregivers and caregiving practitioners both expert and non-expert 3. Anti-capitalists

Main activities

1. Offer support 2. Provide a structure that helps a person offer support, while also being supported themselves. This support is essential, because one can only really provide care, if they are also ‘well’ themselves. Additionally, it alleviates pressures of caregiving by sharing the load. 3. Add to anti-capitalist strategies

Team

Cassie Thornton and Lita Wallis in collaboration with Furtherfield

I saw you holding something up above your head, something heavy. But you had this confidence on your face that it’s not going to fall on you.

Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, participant in a Hologram

Relevant dimensions

The dimensions most relevant to this project are: organizing, caring, subverting and empowering

Close

The Hologram is a project focused entirely on care (Caring) as a form of anti-capitalist resistance (Subverting). This new system is radically different from our current healthcare system. By re-imagining care as non-transactional, but as a given, self-evident social practice built on mutualistic support and solidarity, the project empowers people to develop care skills (Empowering) and apply them in newly developed peer-networks (Organizing). The Hologram started as out mythoreal: something based on dreams and ideal visions, but it has proven to be applicable in the real world, as multiple people are now involved in this community of care (Empowering, Organizing).

Results Evaluation — What happened?

Observations and insights.