EssEnTiaL ReFereNceS

Video: "Social services are broken. How we can fix them" Cottam, Hilary. [2015] TED talks

<https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Mr8nvXvl-y8>

Journal: "The disruptive aesthetics of design activism: enacting design between art and politics" Markussen, Thomas. Design Issues 29(1), pp.38-44 [2013]

Article: "Strike 2.0: how gig economy workers are using tech to fight back" Shenker, Jack. For The Guardian [31 Aug 2019]

https://www. theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/31/the-new-resistance-how-gig-economy-workers- are-fighting-back

Article: "Design’s role in activism can go deeper than posters and t-shirts" Tunstall, Dori. [2018] for AIGA Eye on design website.

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/designs-role-in-activism-can-go-deeper-than-posters-and-t- shirts/

Designer and ex-CSM GCD student Marina Pla set up a fair for broken goods in Buenos Aires as part of an activist campaign to encourage a shift towards a culture of repair.Her project was recently featured by news agency Al Jazeera:

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1104849154948231168

 

"The Creative Process" model design, Dubberly Design Office [2009] in collaboration with Jack Chung, Shelley Evenson and Paul Pangaro.

http://www.dubberly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ddo_creative_process.pdf

AcTiviSm DeSigN

Article: Wicked Problems - https://www.wickedproblems.com/1_wicked_problems.php

Article: "Design as Activism: to resist or to generate?" Thorpe, Ann [unknown] for Current Magazine, Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

https://current.ecuad.ca/design-as-activism-to-resist-or-to-generate

 

Archive of news articles and interventions found at [https://www.designindaba.com/topics/design-activism], all individually referenced if used.

 

cLiMaTe eMeRgenCy

Article: "Global rebellion: die, survive or thrive?" Yamin, Farhana [18 April 2019] for Ecologist.

https://theecologist.org/2019/apr/18/global-rebellion-die-survive-or-thrive

Video: The 16 Year Old Calling Out Global Leaders on Climate Change, Vice [May 2019]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCVQdr9QFwY

Video: Heading for Extinction and what to do about it, Extinction Rebellion [September 2018]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VkC4SnwY0

Journal: "Climate Change as a Wicked Problem: An Evaluation of the Institutional Context for Rural Water Management in Ghana" Fitzgibbon, John. and O'Mensah, Kenneth. [2012]

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244012448487

Article: "Extinction Rebellion: What do they want and is it realistic?" McGrath, Matt [2019] for BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47947775

Article: "Veganism is the 'single biggest way' to reduce our environmental impact on the planet, study finds". Petter, Olivia [June 2018] for The Independent Newspaper.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/veganism-environmental-impact-planet-reduced-plant-based-diet-humans-study-a8378631.html 

Webpage/article: https://waronwant.org/global-food-system-and-expansion-corporate-capitalism

Video: "MDMA is killing trees + 4 other ways we're trashing the planet", Vice [Sept 2019]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU3C8o8I6GQ&t=1s

Case Study Report: "Climate Change Needs Behaviour Change" making the case for behavioural solutions to reduce global warming" [2018] by Rare, Centre for Behaviour and the Environment.

https://rare.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2018-CCNBC-Report.pdf

CaPiTaLism & OvErConsUmpTioN

Video: "Everybody talks about capitalism - but what is it?" Kajsa Ekis Ekman [2015] for TEDxAthens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq5lX-j6Prg

Book review/article: Book - "A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism – Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat" by Eric Holt-Giménez. // Review: "Our Food System Isn't Broken. Capitalism Is What Is Wrong With It" by Amrita Gupta [2018] for Earth Mag

 
Article: "The True Cost Of Our Avocado Obsession" by Violet Henderson [2017] for Vogue.
 
Article: "Your avocado obsession is now causing a drought in Chile", Eben Disken [2018] for The Guardian
 
 
 
Article: "Coffee’s Invisible Carbon Footprint", McColl, Sarah [2016] for EcoWatch
 
Article: "Examining the Carbon Footprint of Coffee" (Submitted by Nikko Mills) on The Eco Guide [2016]
 
Webpage: Trash Track Project