I’m still thinking about the future – about empowering people to feel engaged with the future, and that they can play a role in shaping it, that the future is up for grabs, and could be wildly different—better—than the present. In this vein I discovered some fascinating references. All Tomorrows I started with All Tomorrows, …
Author archives: Daisy Storm Comber Pearson
‘Becoming Savage’, Travessias—Crossings
https://futuress.org/magazine/becoming-savage/ “Jerá’s activism and educational militancy have been pivotal in reclaiming Guarani’s ancestral territories and fighting for the maintenance of the nhandereko (their traditional modes of existence) in her village, especially through the strengthening of the autonomy and food security of the Guarani Mbya people.” Indigenous cultures Translation Anger: “All the bad things that are happening on …
RECYCLING WON’T SAVE US — Reflections on Earth Day
I attended UAL’s Earth Day, and quite frankly I am so sick and tired of hearing about recycling. I honestly don’t care any more. It even makes me angry. To see so many people who supposedly ‘get it’ – young, creative, passionate, talented people, channelling their own energy, and others’ into small individual actions, that …
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Week 1: Thoughts, Plans, Tutorial
Folk Politics All italics quoted from: https://www.designing-history.world/en/theorie/folk-politics/ Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams define folk politics as a politics of immediacy: a way of political action and thinking that privileges the immediate over the mediated. Folk Politics remains reactive. Its political mode is resistance: the initiative always comes from the political opponent. We see this clearly …
Week 1 Reading: Donna Harraway
overall points: 10: true objectivity is impossible, so the closest we can get to it is being really truly honest about the position from which we are seeing and describing, and trying to understand that position, and that way of seeing as deeply as possible, so to be as deeply honest about the observation as …
Thoughts on the UCU Strikes
The unions are on strike. For restoration of pensions. For fair pay, job security, manageable workloads, equality. The value of pay in higher education has fallen by over 20% relative to inflation since 2009. Pensions have been subject to devastating cuts – amounting to 35% of staff’s guaranteed pension. To find out more about the …
Subtervising: Reformulation as Activism
Extinction Rebellion Blockade 15 Amazon Fulfilment Centres on Black Friday On Black Friday, Extinction Rebellion blockaded 15 Amazon Fulfilment Centres, including 13 in the UK, 1 in Germany and 1 in Amsterdam, to call attention to Amazon’s exploitative and environmentally destructive business practices. We combined physical disruption and design. The design is partly to create …
Jubilee for Climate: A Manifesto
As part of the Cross Year Studio on Pamphlets, I recreated our Jubilee for Climate Manifesto as a pamphlet. I am interested in the design of manifestos, and exploring issues of authority, legitimacy, amplification in activist visual communications. I have been working for a while now in this style of “maybe my voice is not …
Justice Interviews: Compilations
I sifted through the voice notes and interviews I’d collected, and sorted them into sections. Nearly everyone had communicated the values they held, with regards to what justice means or should mean. Several had found it necessary to address the failings or shortfalls of the existing justice system, and many addressed the innate challenges with …
Triangulate 3: More Critical Contexts
Reminder of the ongoing aims of my practice: create, stimulate, encourage change, spur people to action change the way people think, add complexity, nuance and depth to people’s understanding of the world and the way it works critique communication practices within activism, and possibly probe and suggest alternative forms of activism? platform and amplify marginalised …