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A research report looking into the long-term impact of Whitechapel Gallery’s collaborative youth programme, Duchamp & Sons.
2025 marks 15 years of Duchamp & Sons and with it a generation of collaboration between young people. To mark this milestone, we’ve been researching what impact creative, collaborative youth collective spaces have on young people, and what we can learn from programmes like these.
We’ve delved into the archives and spoken to over fifty alumni, as well as contributing artists and Gallery staff, past and present, to hear about their experiences.
We hope this research offers useful insight and tools for other people working in collaborative ways with young people, and highlights the vitality of spaces dedicated to being creative and in community with others.
Below you can find a full length version of the research report, alongside a shorter zine version highlighting key findings.
This research has been published to coincide with Moving Grounds: 15 Years of Duchamp & Sons, an exhibition curated by Duchamp & Sons alongside artist Holly Graham and Amelia Oakley.
Credits:
Written & Researched by Amelia Oakley, Curator: Youth Programmes, Whitechapel Gallery
Assistant Research by Sara Ismail and Ansh Meeta, Duchamp & Sons Alumni
The Youth Programme is supported by The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust.
Moving Grounds: 15 Years of Duchamp & Sons has been generously supported by
Aldgate Connect BIDWhitechapel Gallery Education Council Founding Members: Julie and Debashis Dey and Alex Sainsbury
