Agents of Alternatives
* Book: Agents of Alternatives – Re-designing Our Realities. Ed. by Alastair Fuad-Luke, Anja-Lisa Hirscher and Katharina Moebus. Agents of Alternatives e.V., 2015
URL = http://agentsofalternatives.com/
"an independently published open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change agents, thinkers and ‘happeners’.
Description
"An independently published open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change agents, thinkers and ‘happeners’ (those who make things happen!). It shows the creative processes and tools for designing positive societal transitions. These transitions are revealed by showing the new hybrid relationships being forged between alternative approaches to learning, living, making, socialising, thinking and working.
Agents of Alternatives enables professionals, amateurs and citizens to understand the rich possibilities of creating and designing together in open, participatory and imaginative ways. It provides an integrated and systemic collection of case studies, essays and interviews from well-known international contributors and local activists, collated by an international team of editors."
Contents
"An amazing diversity of over 50 international and local contributors, coordinated by an editing team. Here a preview of our contributors:
Interviews with:
- Francesca Weber-Newth & Isolde Nagel on the Community Lover’s Guide to Berlin;
- Cecilia Palmer on the DIY-fashion workshop initiative Fashion Reloaded;
- Elisa Garrote-Gasch on Repair Café Kreuzberg, Berlin;
- Amber Hickey on the book A Guidebook of Alternative Nows;
- Maya Indira Ganesh and Gaby Sobliye on the information advocacy organization Tactical Technology Collective;
- Frauke Hehl & Antonia Schui on the workstation ideenwerkstatt e.V.;
- Cordula Andrä on the intentional community ZEGG, Centre of Experimental Cultural and Social Design;
- Caleb Waldorf, Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga and Fiona Gueß on the self-organized learning project Public School;
- Daphne Büllesbach & Luisa Maria Schweizer on the civil society organization European Alternatives e.V.;
- Diana Krabbendam on the design agency The Beach;
- Tiina-Kaisa Laakso-Liukkonen on the project Design Driven City, Helsinki;
- Marcin Jakubowski, Open Source Ecology & Global Village Construction Set;
- Corinna Fuchs and David Griedelbach on the slow-working space Thinkfarm.
Case studies:
- Aalto Lab Mexico;
- Anselma; Year of Open Source;
- Bring Your Own Biennale;
- Neighbourhood Labs;
- Open Green Maps;
- Institute of Design Research Vienna;
- Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie;
- Kuutio; Make{able};
- Open Wear;
- Pixelache Festival;
- Satokartta.net;
- Tradeschool.coop and
- Women’s rights campaigning Info Activism Toolkit.
Essays by:
- Frigga Haug, philosopher and sociologist on new visions of work;
- Valerie A. Brown & John Harris on the role of aesthetic thinking in the collective mind;
- Martin Parker, co-author of the book Dictionary of Alternatives;
- David Bollier, author of the book Think Like a Commoner;
- Michel Bauwens, founder of the peer-to-peer initiative P2P-Foundation;
- Otto von Busch, fashion hacker and activist on his fashion project >Self_Passage<;
- Benjamin Becker, Stefanie Gernert, Bernd Kniess, Ben Pohl and Anna Richter of the 5-year-experiment University of the Neighbourhoods;
- Cindy Kohtala, doctoral researcher of the Maker movement;
and the contributing editors –
- Alastair Fuad-Luke on design activism and design for social innovation;
- Anja-Lisa Hirscher on participation in making; and
- Katharina Moebus on mutual learning.