Co-creation for activism This is a 3-min talk about my fellowship work that I gave at Ford Foundation in NYC in May 2019 – since September 2018 I had been hosted by Creative Commons as a Mozilla Fellow, which is funded by Ford Foundation – so this serves as a final report in a way. Contents Formats Video Slides & TextText only Links & Credits LinksCredits Video Slides & Text ‘The Beginning is Near’, © Alexandra Clotfelter | Booklyn Artists’ Alliance, https://booklyn.org Illustration is a wonderful medium to tell stories, or spark the imagination. ‘A Message from the Future with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’ | Image © Molly Crabapple | The Intercept, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ Rather than just showing what exists, you can communicate the better future you’re working towards. …creating effective campaign images is often expensive and time-consuming for small NGOs or community groups. and ubiquitous stock images or generic icons aren’t always representative or relevant to the audience. An image is the perfect way to communicate… … a mood. But unlike text or data – which can be restyled, updated, or translated – images tend to be pretty inflexible. As a viewer, seeing yourself reflected in campaign imagery can be very powerful. but by default, an image will reflect the biases and perspectives of the creator. No image is neutral, and if you’re excluded, you notice. So there are a number of challenges facing any organisation who wants to create engaging and focused illustration for their campaigns. I think there’s a huge opportunity in opening up the process of creating images to a much wider range of people, and also making...
