EMMA BERGMAN

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If It’s Not A Dream
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If It’s Not A Dream (2024)card deck
offset lithography
edition of 40

acquired by Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection & Archives

shown at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago

used by communities in Chicago, IL; Brooklyn, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Knoxville, TN; Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Bloomington, IN; Detroit, MI; Eugene, OR; Seattle, WA; Marseille, France; Oslo, Norway; Schlüsselfeld, Germany
 If It’s Not A Dream is a deck of question cards to guide group conversations about collective living in apocalyptic times. 

It is divided into two sections. In Part 1: Building the Place, participants envision and detail the specifics of an intentional community. What are the important roles in your community? How will child-rearing responsibilities be allocated? In Part 2: Current Moment, they are encouraged to square that imagined community with their life now. What would your friends and family think? What are the biggest obstacles to this being real or possible? 

The questions were developed in collaboration with a two working groups.