Lawrence Lessig: One Way Forward: The Outsider’s Guide to Fixing the Republic (2012)
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · capitalism, corruption, crowdsourcing, finance, money, occupy movement, open source, politics, wikipedia, youtube
“Something is clearly rotten in our Republic. Americans are disillusioned with the political system and angry as hell. They feel like outsiders in their own nation, powerless over their own lives, blocked from having a real voice in how they are governed. But all of this can change. Lawrence Lessig, the renowned Harvard Law School professor and political activist presents a user-friendly, bipartisan manifesto for revolution just when we need it the most. His audaciously simple solution? Kill political corruption at its root: money.”
Publisher Byliner Inc., San Francisco, February 2012
ISBN 1614520232, 9781614520238
Commentary: Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing, 2012).
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Alastair Fuad-Luke: Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, bauhaus, crowdsourcing, design, ecology, environment, graphic design, metadesign, open source, participation, sustainability, sustainable design, technology, wikipedia
Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a ‘designer’. Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyse positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. To date, examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is poorly represented in the literature. This book will provide a rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism. Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim – to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis,. It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring.
Publisher Earthscan, 2009
ISBN 1844076458, 9781844076451
244 pages
interview with the author (Juha Huuskonen, April 2012)
PDF (updated on 2012-10-30)
Comment (0)Platform: Journal of Media and Communication, Vol. 2, No. 2: Collaborative Media and Networked Publics (2011)
Filed under journal | Tags: · crowdsourcing, mass collaboration, networks, wikipedia
PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication is a biannual open-access online graduate publication. Founded and published by the Media and Communications Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (Australia), PLATFORM was launched in November 2008.
PLATFORM is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse paradigms in Media and Communication, and edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne. It is planned to develop it as an international journal.
A Creative Commons Special Issue: Yes, We’re Open! Why Open Source, Open Content and Open Access
Edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne.
Guest edited by Dale Leorke
Published by the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Sep 2010
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence.
ISSN: 1836-5132 online
72 pages
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