How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later In the essay that inspired the title of this wonderful exhibition, 'How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later', cult science fiction writer Philip K. Dick confessed that he liked to create universes that fall apart, in order to see how his characters would adapt to change. Curated by Will Bradley, this show is more like a list of ingredients than a recipe for creating a world from scratch. The absence of explanatory wall texts, titles or other didactic information allowed viewers a chance to make connections organically, from work to work, leading to the possible conclusion that the particular cosmos created here would not implode but would be, like our own world, a beautiful mess (albeit with more attention paid to the vulnerable and dispossessed, a nod towards creative solutions and more hope to spare). In Gitte Villesen's photo and text work Tyner (2001), a homeless man explains how kids can build toys from wood gleaned from a Chicago 'reuse centre', suggesting that nothing (and no one) should just be tossed out. Community activist Bonnie Sherk's well-known photos, drawings and designs for the Crossroads Community, or The Farm, which over the years were rolled up and carried around to every civic leader and dignitary she could find, showed that relentless optimism and belief in one's home and neighbourhood can create a community, even within misused and abused sections of a city. Urban theory