The Future of Collecting ICOM Dubai 2025 invites us to envision the future of museums and communities together. COMCOL takes on this invitation and will use the time of this session to exchange ideas of community focused collecting and how this poses new questions – ethical, legal, social, psychological and museological. How to rethink collecting when building relations as practice of care becomes first before the care of the object, when shifting ideas about ownership and authority affect collecting practices.