Resources

These are some of our favourite resources to consult when making art for social change. Others have wondered before you: how to make art that is inclusive, ethical, challenges worldviews and mobilizes people. Stand on the shoulders of giants. 
When finding your way to a more engaged artistic practice…
To feel the fire that fuels a social artist
A User’s Guide to Demanding the Impossible
Open source book on new creative forms of action in changing times
To challenge your growth-driven thinking
The POSTGROWTH
TOOLKIT
A tactical card game that invites you to consider new modes of understanding and new paths of imagination in the context of current environmental crises.
To be inspired by examples of beautiful hopeful storytelling through text and image
Imagine 2200:
Climate fiction
Open source book on new creativeWinning stories from a contest looking for fictions for our future ancestors forms of action in changing times
When researching…
To think about human influence in the Anthropocene
Feral Atlas
A place to roam where critical thinkers have gathered ideas about the Anthropocene
To help ensure that your practice isn’t extractivist
Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock
When design processes are led by marginalized communities it explicitly challenges, rather than reproduces, structural inequalities. Sasha describes how this works, can be done and has been done.
To contextualise your work
MayDay Rooms Online Archive
Extensive archive on social struggles, radical art, and acts of resistance from the 1960s to the present. There are more (radical), local archives than you think with bounties of information. Go search for them!
To use when making…
To consider new perspectives when you’ve already set your project in stone
The Oracle deck for Transfeminist Technologies
Exercise to think out of the box with what’s given.
To critically think about the footprint of your work
Artology
To think of creating more horizontal collaborations
CLEARLab’s mini-documentaries
CLEAR explains how they reduce power dynamics in their research and the dissemination of it. Although not directly transferable to other research or making contexts it’s spirit can be.
When communicating (about) your artistic output…
To be inspired by how artists let their art take on a life of their own
Black Quantum Futurism Timekit
A toolkit made to independently facilitate discussion groups surrounding the work previously done by the artists.
To help you distinguish misleading & vacuous terms from corporate language found in open calls and commissions, or co-opt them to subvert them
Keyword: The New language of Capitalism
Dictionary of capitalist language.
To help you describe your project accurately, and find possible shortcomings
Pluriverse: a post-development dictionary
Contextualizes old and new buzzwords surrounding ‘development’. Addresses how inclusive they truly are in who benefits from the development.

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