We are happy to announce that “Design (&) Activism” – in which some members of the network are represented as co-authors – has been published in Octobre 2019. In addition to this, we would like to provide you with a list of must-reads that will be continuously updated.
Askanius, Tina (2013): Online Video Activism and Political Mash-up Genres. In: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) 4.
Askanius, Tina (2014): Video for Change. In: Gwinn Wilkins, Karin/ Obregon, Rafael/ Tufte, Thomas (Hg.): The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 453–470.
Bavo (2007): Cultural Activism Today: The Art of Over-identification. Episode Publishers.
Bell, Bryan / Wakeford, Katie (2008): Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism. Distributed Art Publishers.
Bieber, Alain / Alonzo, Pedro / Jansen, Gregor (2011): Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism. Die Gestalten Verlag.
Biekart, Kees / Fowler, Alan (2013): Transforming Activisms 2010 – Exploring Ways and Waves. In: Development and Change 44(3), 527–546.
Bieling, Tom (Ed.) (2019): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Mimesis International
Bieling, Tom (2019): Designing Utopia – Designers as Catalysts for Transformation. In:
DESIGNABILITIES Design Research Journal, (05) 2019. ISSN 2511-6274
Bieling, Tom (2021): Protest Design. In: Sonia Diaz & Gabriel Martinez: Protest Pictogram Activism. Promopress, Madrid.
Bieling, Tom / Martins, Tiago / Joost, Gesche (2017): Interactive inclusive – Designing tools for activism and empowerment. in: Kent, Mike & Ellis, Katie: Disability and Social Media. Taylor & Francis / Routledge, London.
Bieling, Tom / Sametinger, Florian / Joost, Gesche (2013): Social Dimensions of Design Research; In: Baltic Horizons, No 21 (118), II. Social, ethical and political Aspects of Research in Design; October 2013, EuroAcademy Series Art & Design, Euroakadeemia, Tallinn, Estonia; pg 35 – 40
Bläske, Stefan / Casella, Luanda / Rau, Milo / Staal, Lara (Eds.) (2020): The Art of Resistance: On Theatre, Activism and Solidarity. Verbrecher Verlag.
Bloem, Ingeborg / Kempenaars, Klaus (2019): Branded Protest: Branding as a Tool to Give Prostest an Iconic Face. BIS.
Bogad, Larry (2016): Tactical Performance: Serious Play and Social Movements. Routledge.
Boyd, Andrew / Mitchell, David Oswald (2014): Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. OR Books.
Brown, Gavin / Feigenbaum, Anna (2017): Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance. Policy Press.
Brunner, Elizabeth (2019): Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China: Becoming Activists over Wild Public Networks (Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene). Lexington.
Cammaerts, Bart / Carpentier, Nico (2006): Reclaiming the Media: Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles. Intellect Books.
Campos, Riccardo / Zaimakis, Yiannis / Pavoni, Andrea (Eds.) (2021): Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics (Protest, Culture & Society, 28). Berghahn Books.
Carmichael, Stokeley (Kwame Ture) (2007): Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism. A Capella Books
Carpentier, Nico (2011): The concept of participation –If they have access and interact, do they really participate? In: CM, Communication Management Quarterly/Casopis za upravljanje komuniciranjem, 21, 13–36.
Castells, Manuel (2012): Networks of Outrage and Hope – Social Movements in the Internet Age. Cambridge: Polity.
Cernison, Matteo (2019): Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good (Protest and Social Movements, Vol 16). Amsterdam University Press.
Checker, Melissa / Fishman, Maggie (2004): Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America. Columbia University Press.
Da Costa, Beatriz / Kavita, Philip / Dumit, Joseph (2010): Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. MIT Press.
Corbett, Sarah (2018): A Little Book of Craftivism. Cicada.
Corradi, Laura (2019): Gypsy Feminism: Intersectional Politics, Alliances, Gender and Queer Activism. Roudledge.
Costanza-Chock, Sasha (2014): Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. MIT Press.
Critical Crafting Circle (2011): Craftista! Handarbeit als Aktivismus. Ventil.
Dal, Mikala Hyldig (2013):: Cairo – Images of Transition. Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt 2011–2013. Transcript.
Darieva, Tsypylma / Neugebauer, Carola S. (Hg.): Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia – Strategies and Practices. DOM, Berlin.
Dávila, Patricio (2019): Diagrams of Power: Visualizing, mapping and performing resistance. Onomatopee.
Decker, Juliee / Mandell, Hinda (Eds.) (2019): Crafting Democracy – Fiber Arts and Activism. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press.
Deepwell, Katy (2020): Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms. VALIZ.
Dey, Adrija (2018): Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism (Digital Activism And Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication). Emerald.
Dietachmair, Philip / Gielen, Pascal Gielen (Eds.) (2017): The Art of Civil Action: Political Space and Cultural Dissent. VALIZ.
Dobson, Kit / McGlynn, Aine (2013): Transnationalism, Activism, Art. University of Toronto Press
Doerr, Nicole/ Mattoni, Alice/ Teune, Simon (2015): Toward a Visual Analysis of Social Movements, Conflict, and Political Mobilization. In: Ebd. (Hg.): Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements. Emerald Group (research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 35).
Duncombe, Stephen / Lambert, Steve: Why so much Art and Activism fails (and what we can do to fail better). In: Tom Bieling (Ed.): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Mimesis International, Milano, 119–126.
Eder, Jens / Hartmann, Britta / Tedjasukmana, Chris (2020): Bewegungsbilder – Politische Videos in Sozialen Medien. Bertz + Fischer.
Eder, Jens/ Klonk, Charlotte (Hg.) (2016): Image Operations. Visual Media and Political Conflict. Manchester: Manchester UP.
Erlhoff, Michael & Maziar Rezai (Eds.) (2021): Design and Democracy – Activist Thoughts and Practical Examples for Sociopolitical Empowerment. BIRD, Basel: Birkhäuser.
Eslen-Ziya, Hande / McGarry, Aidan / Jenzen, Olu / Erhart, Itir / Korkut, U. (2019): From Anger to Solidarity: The Emotional Echo Chamber of Gezi Park Protests. Emotion, Space and Society, 33.
Fahlenbrach, Kathrin/ Klimke, Martin/ Scharloth, Joachim (Hg.) (2016): Protest Cultures. A Companion. Oxford, New York: Berghahn.
Feigenbaum, Anna (2017): Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today. Verso.
Feigenbaum, Anna (2018): Moving Protests – The Stories Objects Can Tell. In: DESIGNABILITIES Design Research Journal, (11) 2018. ISSN 2511-6274
Feigenbaum, Anna / Frenzel, Fabian / McCurdy, Patrick (2013): Protest Camps. Zed Books.
Felshin, Nina (1995): But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art As Activism. Bay Press.
Fendler, Ute / Fink, Katharina / Siegert, Nadine / Vierke, Ulf (2019): Revolution 3.0 – Iconographies of Radical Change. AVM Edition.
Fleischmann, Alexander / Guth, Doris (Hg.) (2015): Kunst. Theorie. Aktivismus.: Emanzipatorische Perspektiven auf Ungleichheit und Diskriminierung. Birkhäuser.
Flesher Fominaya, Cristina (Ed.) (2017): Social Movements and Globalization: How Protests, Occupations and Uprisings are Changing the World (Sociology for Globalizing Societies). Red Globe Press.
Flesher Fominaya, Cristina / Feenstra, Ramon A. (Eds.) (2019): Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times. Taylor & Francis.
Flesher Fominaya, Cristina / Gillan, Kevin (2020): Technology, Media and Social Movements. Routledge.
Flood, Catherine (2012): British Posters: Advertising, Art and Activism: Advertising, Art & Activism. V&A Pulb.
Flood, Catherine / Grindon, Gavin (2014): Disobedient Objects. Abrams & Chronicle.
Francis, Ian / Jackson, Edward (2019): This Way To The Revolution 2019: Art, Activism and Upheaval in Birmingham 1968. Flatpack.
Fuad-Luke, Alastair (2009): Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world. Earthscan, London.
Fuad-Luke, Alastair (2019): Beautiful Strangeness revisited – Generative, disruptive, fabulative, design-led Activism. In: Tom Bieling (Ed.): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Mimesis International, Milano, 173–188.
Fuchs, Christian (2014): Occupy Media! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism. Alresford: Zero Books.
Gage, Mark Foster (2019): Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy. MIT Press.
Gale, Cathy (2013): Word As Weapon: Manifesto As A Catalyst For Design Activism.
Gerbaudo, Paolo (2012): Tweets in the Streets. Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London: Pluto.
Glaser, Milton / Ilic, Mirko (2005): The Design Of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics. Rockport.
Godfrey, Mark / Whitley, Zoe (2017): Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. D A P & TATE.
Graft (2016): Architecture Activism. Birkhäuser.
Greer, Betsy (Ed.) (2014): Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism. Arsenal Pulp.
Hoidn, Barbara (2019): Demo:Polis – The Right to Public Space. In: Tom Bieling (Ed.) (2019): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Milano: Mimesis.
Hill, Symon (2013): Digital Revolutions. Activism in the Internet Age. Oxford: New Internationalist.
Hill Collins, Patricia (1991): Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Roudledge.
Hundertmark, Christian (Hg.) (2006–2016): Art Of Rebellion 1-4: The World Of Streetart. Publikat.
Isola Art Center (2013): Fight-Specific Isola. Art, Architecture, Activism and the Future of the City. Archive Books.
Jackson, Sarah J. / Bailey, Moya / Foucault Welles, Brooke (2020): #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. MIT Press.
Jennings, James (2000): The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America. Wayne State University Press.
Jenkins, Henry et al (2018): By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism (Connected Youth and Digital Futures). New York University Press.
Jenzen, O. / Eslen-Ziya, H. / Erhart, I. / Korkut, U. / McGarry, A. (2020): The Symbol of Social Media in Contemporary Protest’. Convergence.
Julier, Guy (2019): Can design ever be activist? The challenge of engaging neoliberalism differently. In: Tom Bieling (Ed.): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Mimesis International, Milano, 235–246.
Juanita, Judy (2018): Homage to the Black Arts Movement. Equidistance Press.
Kastner, Jens (2019): Die Linke und die Kunst: Ein Überblick. Unrast.
Kelley Jr., Bill / Zamora, Rebecca (Eds.) (2019): Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas. School of the Art Ins of Chic.
Kester, Grant H. (1998): Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage. Duke University Press.
Kiesling, Elena (2015): Aesthetics of Coalition and Protest: The Imagined Queer Community. Universitätsverlag Winter.
Klonk, Charlotte (2017): Terror – Wenn Bilder zu Waffen werden. S. Fischer.
Kubik, Jan (1994): The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland. Pensilvaniy State University Press.
Langa, Helen (2004): Radical Art – Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York. University of California Press.
Lievrouw, Leah (2013): Alternative and Activist New Media. Oxford: Wiley.
Lin, Jan (2019): Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification. NYU Press.
Loney-Howes, Rachel (2020): Online Anti-Rape Activism: Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media (Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change). Emerald / EGP.
Lothian, Sayraphim (2018): Guerrilla Kindness and Other Acts of Creative Resistance. Mango.
Luckett, Sharrell D. (2019): The Art of Resistance: On Theatre, Activism and Solidarity. Bucknell University Press.
Maasri, Zeina (2015): Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War. Bloomsbury.
Maasri, Zeina (2020): Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties. Cambridge University Press.
Macel, Christine / Knock, Alicia / Ma, Yung (Eds.) (2020): Global(e) Resistance. Centre Pompidou.
Maddison, Sarah / Scalmer, Sean (2005): Activist Wisdom: Practical knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements. UNSW Press.
Madoff, Steven Henry (2019): What About Activism? Sternberg Press.
Marchart, Oliver (2019): Conflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere. Sternberg Press.
Marciniak, Katarzyna / Tyler, Imogen (Eds.) (2015): Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent. State University of New York Press.
Markussen, Thomas (2013): The Disruptive Aesthetics of Design Activism: Enacting Design between Art and Politics. Design Issues Vol. 29, No 1 (2012).
Markussen, Thomas (2019): The impure Politics of Design Activism. In: Tom Bieling (Ed.): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Mimesis International, Milano, 35–46.
Martens, Cheryl / Venegas, Christina / Tapuy, Etsa Franklin Salvio Sharupi (Eds.) (2020): Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America. Palgrave MacMillan
Martin, Brian (2014): The Controversy Manual. Irene.
McCaughey, Martha (Hg.) (2014): Cyberactivism on the participatory web. New York . Routledge.
McDonald, Margot / Dayer, Carolina (2020): Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design. Routledge.
McGarry, Aidan / Erhart, Itir / Eslen-ziya, Hande / Jenzen, Olu / Korkut, Umut (2019) : The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication. Amsterdam University Press.
McGarry, Aidan / Jenzen, Olu / Eslen-Ziya, Hande / Erhart, Itir / Korkut, Umut (2019): Beyond the Iconic Protest Images: the Performance of ‘Everyday Life’ on Social Media during Gezi Park Social Movement Studies 18(3): 284–304.
McLagan, Meg / McKee, Yates (Eds.) (2012): Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism. Zone Books.
McKinney, Cait (2020): Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies. Duke University Press.
McQuiston, Liz (2015): Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century. Phaidon.
McQuiston, Liz (2019): Protest! A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics. White Lion Publishing.
Meikle, Graham (2002): The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. Routdledge.
Meis, Mareike (2014): Protest per Handycam. Die Grüne Bewegung im Iran. Tectum.
Mendes, Kaitlynn / Ringrose, Jessica / Keller, Jessalynn (2019): Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics). Oxford University Press.
Mihailovic, Alxandar (2018): The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia. University of Wisconsin Press.
Morozov, Evgeny (2011): The Net Delusion. The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, New York: Public Affairs.
Mouffe, Chantal (2019): Artistic Strategies in Politics and Political Strategies in Art. In: Tom Bieling (Ed.): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Mimesis International, Milano, 53–59.
Mutsvairo, Bruce (Ed.) (2018): Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa Paperback. Palgrave MacMillan
Neal, Mark Anthony(2001): Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic. Roudledge.
Nestler, Sebastian (2014): Kommunikations-Guerilla als Aneignungskunst und politischer Aktivismus aus der Perspektive der Cultural Studies. In: Helbig, Jörg / Rußegger, Arno / Winter, Rainer (Ed.): Visualität, Kultur und Gesellschaft. Köln: Halem, 36-52.
Neumayer, C./ Svensson, J. (2016): Activism and radical politics in the digital age. Towards a typology. In: Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 22 (2), 131–146.
Parry, William (2011): Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine. Lawerence Hill.
Pickard, Victor / Yang , Guobin (2017): Media Activism in the Digital Age (Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies). Routledge.
Pohl, Nicole / Buszek, Maria Elena / Robertson, Kirsty (Eds.) (2011): Utopian Studies: Craftivism. Special Issue (22:2), The Journal of the Society of Utopian Studies. PSUPJ
Poshar, Andréa (2019): Design and Activism – A Relationship that needs Reflection. In: DESIGNABILITIES Design Research Journal, (02) 2019. ISSN 2511-6274
Presence, Steve (2015): Reel News in the Digital Age. Radical Video-Activism in Britain. In: Molloy, Claire/ Tzioumakis, Yannis (Hg.): The Routledge Companion to Film and Politics. London: Routledge, 103–111.
Raunig, Gerald (2005): Kunst. Theorie. Aktivismus.: Emanzipatorische Perspektiven auf Ungleichheit und Diskriminierung. Turia+Kant.
Razsa, Maple J. (2014): Beyond ‘Riot Porn’. Protest Video and the Production of Unruly Subjects. In: Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology 79 (4), 496–524.
Reed, T. V. (2019): Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present. University of Minnesota Press.
Reilly, Maura (2018): Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating. Thames & Hudson.
Rippon, Jo (2020): The Art of Protest: A Visual History of Dissent and Resistance. Imagine.
Rippon, Jo (2020). Rise Up! The Art of Protest. Charlesbridge.
Roberts, Lucienne (2018): Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18. Design Museum, London.
Rogger, Basil / Vögeli, Jonas / Widmer, Ruedi et al. (Eds.) (2018): Protest.: The Aesthetics of Resistance. Lars Müller Publ.
De Roo, Ruben / Vanhaesebrouck, Karel / De Cautier, Lieven (2011): Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization. NAI010 PUBL
Rossi, Luca / Boccia Artieri, Giovanni (2014): Cyberprotest – Protest in the Digital Age. In: Fahlenbrach, Kathrin/ Sivertsen, Erling/ Werenskjold, Rolf (Hg.): Media and Revolt. Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present. New York: Berghahn, 336–350.
Schalk, Meike / Kristiansson, Thérèse / Mazé, Ramia (Eds.) (2017): Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialisms, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections. Spurbuchverlag.
Schankweiler, Kerstin (2019): Bildproteste: Digitale Bildkulturen. Wagenbach.
Silent City (2012): Art and Activism. Silent City.
Sliwinska, Basia (2020): Feminist Visual Activism and the Body (Routledge Research in Gender and Art). Roudledge.
Smith, Aaron (2013): Civic Engagement in the Digital Age. PewResearchCenter.
Sonntag, Karlheinz (Hg.) (2013): E-Protest: Neue soziale Bewegungen und Revolutionen, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
Steinbock, Eliza / Ieven, Bram / de Valck, Marijke (Eds.) (2020): Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience (Routledge Research in Art and Politics). Routledge.
Tactical Technology Collective (2014): Visualising Information for Advocacy.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (2016): From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Haymarket.
Tedjasukmana, Chris (2014): Die Öffentlichkeit des Kinos. Politische Ästhetik in Zeiten des Aufruhrs. In: Montage AV 23 (2): Politik, 13–34.
Thompson, Nato (2015): Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century. Melville House.
Thorpe, Ann (2008): Design as Activism – A Conceptual Tool. In: Proceedings of Changing the Change conference, Turin. S. 1523–1535
Thorpe, Ann (2012): Architecture & Design Versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth. Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Thorpe, Ann (2019): Design Activism in the Context of Transport and Mobility. In: Tom Bieling (Ed.): Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design. Mimesis International, Milano, 189–204.
Traganou, Jilly (Ed.) (2020): Design and Political Dissent – Spaces, Visuals, Materialities. Routledge.
Treré, Emiliano (Ed.) (2020): Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms. Roudledge.
Trottier, Daniel / Fuchs, Christian (Hg.) (2015): Social media, politics and the state. Protests, revolutions, riots, crime and policing in the age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. New York: Routledge.
Ullrich, Wolfgang / Bieling, Tom (2017): “Die Kunst als fünfte Gewalt im Staat? – Ein Gespräch über Artivismus”. In: DESIGNABILITIES Design Research Journal, (9) 2017, ISSN 2511-6274
Vanni, Ilaria (2020): Precarious objects: Activism and design in Italy. Studies in Design and Material Culture. Manchester University Press.
Wang, Jing (2020): Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. Harvard University Press.
Washington, Mary Helen (2014): he Other Black List: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s. Columbia University Press.
Weiwei, Ai (2013): Ai Weiwei: Spatial Matters: Art, Architecture, Activism. Tate.
Weibel, Peter (Hg.) (2013): Global Activism. Cambridge/Mass.: MIT Press.
Werbner, Pnina / Webb, Martin / Spellman-Poots, Kathryn (Eds.) (2014): Political Aesthetics of Global Protest: The Arab Spring and Beyond. Edinburgh University Press.
Wheeler, Deborah (Ed.) (2017): Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life. EUP.
Whyte, Iain Boyd (1982): Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge University Press.
Wiggins, Bradley E. (2019): The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture). Routledge.
Yekani, Elahe Haschemi / Kilian, Eveline / Michaelis, Beatrice (Eds.) (2016): Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political. Routledge
