Book Trailer

In this book trailer, three of our network members and co-authors – Thomas Markussen, Alastair Fuad-Luke and Cathy Gale – present their concepts on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Video, editing + conception: Kai Hattermann / filetroyal.com © 2021

PROTEST! Pictogram Activism

UN MUNDO FELIZ’s latest trilingual book “Protest!“ on Pictogram Activism features a collection of 400 picto/graphics and texts by Liz McQuiston, Steven Heller, Avram Finkelstein, Sarah Corbett, Tom Bieling, Bettina Richter, Steve Lambert, Fons Hickmann, Lincoln Cushing, King ADZ, and more.

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New Book

We are happy to announce DESIGN (&) ACTIVISM has been published as the first title in the book series Design Meanings (Mimesis Edizioni).

This is a book about how the worlds of design and activism (could) inspire each other. The book focuses on theories and practices related to the role of Design in terms of addressing, provoking and creating political discourse. Starting from traditional forms of protest, visual languages of resistance, to new forms of digital participation, this will help us to better understand the rituals, structures and meanings of design activism in history and the present, clarifying that design is intrinsically social and supremely political. And it shall help us to derive arguments and examples for the transformative potential of future design (and) activism.

The volume contains contributions by Alastair Fuad-Luke, Guy Julier, Ann Thorpe, Chantal Mouffe, Gui Bonsiepe, Thomas Markussen, Gavin Grindon, Michael Erlhoff, Anna Feigenbaum, Cathy Gale, Barbara Hoidn, Stephen Duncombe, Steve Lambert, Harald Gruendl, Fernando Luiz Lara, Tom Bieling, Pierre Smolarski, Marcel René Marburger, Maziar Rezai or Mikala Hyldig Dal.

Tom Bieling (Ed.): DESIGN (&) ACTIVISM –
Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design
Mimesis International (Design Meanings), 254 Pages, English
ISBN 978-8869772412