Aphen, Ernst van (dir.)

Productive Archiving discusses overlooked problems in archival organizations, focusing on three main issues: inclusion or exclusion from archives, loss of individuality through homogenization, and identity pigeonholing. The book argues that avoiding archives is not viable since archival organization fundamentally structures how we organize our lives and understanding of past, present, and future. Instead, it explores constructive creative solutions to these problems, particularly through artistic archives that offer speculative and unexpected ways to order, select, and narrate information, creating new connections and archival organizations.