The Possibility of Protest
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.
Authors
- Seda Özçetin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8388-3915)
- Lone Koefoed Hansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9877-6362)
- Elvia Vasconcelos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5680-0652)
- Mafalda Gamboa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7777-3349)
- Léa Paymal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5328-2119)
- Bruna Goveia da Rocha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5178-9115)
- Kristina Andersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2639-2175)
- Yuxi Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4420-6543)
- Helen Milne
Institutions
- Aarhus University (DK)
- École Normale Supérieure (BI)
- Laboratoire de Biologie et Pharmacologie Appliquée (FR)
- Chalmers University of Technology (SE)
- Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- Umeå University (SE)
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-08-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747091
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00