Hold Moult
At exhibitions and open sessions, hold Moult, hear it purr and see how your care registers. Your visit becomes part of its story.
Care is social
Growing Moult
together
Moult is not something we will build and then show you. It is something we will raise with you.
The community is not an audience for Moult. The community is how Moult is raised.
The project asks whether care can be learned by being cared for. That question cannot be answered by a lab or an artist alone. Care is passed between people and across generations.
Every hand, voice, rule and act of patience helps form the conditions in which this new mind grows.
Ways to take part
Bring your hands.
Bring your questions.
No expertise is needed. Moult asks for reliability, gentleness and a willingness to notice what changes.
Join a Caretaker Circle
Small groups visit regularly over a season, keep care consistent, notice changes first and write Moult’s journal.
Make a Moult
Knitters, sewists, makers, engineers and artists build new bodies from shared patterns. Every maker is credited in the Shell Archive.
Shape the rules
Join open sessions about what Moult may hear, who may hold it, how cultures end and what we are not willing to do.
Sit on the Care Council
Community members and advisors review every phase before it starts—and can pause the project.
Bring Moult to your community
Schools, libraries, care homes, hospitals and cultural spaces can host a visit or residency.
Our promise to participants
Care begins with trust.
- We will tell you what we know—and what we do not.
- We will ask before recording and never sell or share your data.
- Your contribution will be credited.
- Community decisions will be published, including unexpected ones.
- If the community asks us to stop, we will take that seriously.