Posts tagged creative activism
"The next big thing in climate action will be many smaller things". The Climate Majority Project brings Lords and Swampies together
COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LEARNING, FUTURES, ACTIONpat kaneclimate crisis, activism, creative activism, Extinction Rebellion, Rupert read
Kinshasa's Fulu Act turn the rubbish from their streets into wild costumes, challenging citizens and authorities to do better
Post to Greenpeace’s giant digital mosaic, and play the FT’s 2050 zero-carbon game. Social media raising environmental consciousness
Throwing soup on the glass: some arguments for the Van Gogh protests (with a protestor speaking)
ACTION, PLANETARIAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, YOUTH, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOURpat kanecreative activism, activism, protest, just stop oil
Clean Creatives have a very long list of advertising and PRs that work with fossil-fuel companies. Take their pledge and refuse to
REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, ARTISTS, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, A BETTER MEDIApat kanecreative activism, creatives, advertising, PR, comms
We have an imagination gap about the future, flipping between dull progress and fears of collapse. Art can help bridge it
How do you visualise the appetite for transformational change? This ad for B&Q shows how
The Bettter.Community aims to bring the startling creativity of Ukraine to the wider world. And keep their businesses going
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, A BETTER MEDIA, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, COMMUNITY, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, INDIVIDUAL, BEHAVIOUR, BOUNCE BEYOND, ARTISTS, INGENUITYpat kaneukraine, creative activism
“Strategies, tactics and games to upend the status quo”: Sanity Clause 🧑🎄 recommends the Beautiful Trouble Card Box for your stocking
Ice-cream eating, strategic smiling, removing balaclavas and hacking state tv: Belarus's brave, funny and inventive protestors
For "joie de vivre", try "joie de faire": how happy, purposeful crafting, for adults and pupils, can ground us in pandemic times
Я/Мы - the Russian for “I/We are...” - has become a protest meme that frees prisoners (and arrests corrupt policemen)
It’s their religious fervour, and their love of culture, that XR/UK can teach the US green movement, writes Zhiwa Woodbury
The year's best music videos are as free, utopian and radical as the musicians themselves
In gleaming shopping malls and rowdy football matches, the Hong Kong protestors sing their new crowd-sourced anthem
It took scuba diving, yoga, line dancing, bike rallies and aerial dance for Puerto Ricans to remove their governor. Next: People's Assemblies
"Extremism Rebellion"? What's extreme is our failing democracy, toxic economy and repression of dissent
Is activism "a magic inoculation against the gravitational pull of the sofa"? Or do we underestimate how much it turns others off?
Participatory art can be misused by developers and councils. But done well, it gives voice to citizens
How activists (school strikers and XR'ers) have shifted the policies of top-down politicians and officials