The Possibility of Protest
Paper in proceeding, 2025
Design research is inherently both social and political. We are living and working in times of great unrest and upheaval, and we feel that our work must increasingly reflect this. We propose this workshop to engage with the material practices of protest. These range from long-held traditions of banners and badges to more emergent forms of zines, stickers, tattoos, and visible repairs.We propose a day of making and exchange to engage these practices. We will explore the materiality of the protest banner as a surface of collective expression, while also emphasizing care, repair, and feminist practices of collective knowledge-making in design research. Practically, we will be making banners, stickers, and temporary tattoos, using a speculative trade union as a unifying structure for discussions around care and justice in design.
Protest
material driven design
making
collaboration
Author
Elvia Vasconcelos
Eindhoven University of Technology
Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering
University of Gothenburg
Kristina Andersen
Eindhoven University of Technology
Bruna Goveia da Rocha
Eindhoven University of Technology
Seda Özçetin
Umeå University
Yuxi Liu
Delft University of Technology
Lone Koefoed Hansen
Aarhus University
Helen Milne
Eindhoven University of Technology
Léa Paymal
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan
Conference Proceedings Computing X Crisis 6th Decennial Aarhus Conference Aar Adjunct 2025
22
9798400719684 (ISBN)
6th Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis, AAR Adjunct 2025
Aarhus, Denmark,
Aarhus, Denmark,
Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)
Design
DOI
10.1145/3737609.3747091