The Possibility of Protest

Elvia Vasconcelos; Mafalda Gamboa; Kristina Andersen; Bruna Goveia da Rocha; Seda Özçetin; Yuxi Liu; Lone Koefoed Hansen; Helen Milne; Léa Paymal

doi:10.1145/3737609.3747091

The Possibility of Protest

Elvia Vasconcelos^*, Mafalda Gamboa, Kristina Andersen, Bruna Goveia da Rocha, Seda Özçetin, Yuxi Liu, Lone Koefoed Hansen, Helen Milne, Léa Paymal

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School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	30 Aug 2025
Pages	1-4
Article number	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400719684
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747091
Publication status	Published - 30 Aug 2025
Event	6th Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis, AAR Adjunct 2025 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 18 Aug 2025 → 22 Aug 2025

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Conference	6th Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis, AAR Adjunct 2025
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	18/08/2025 → 22/08/2025

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collaboration
making
material driven design
Protest

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Vasconcelos, E, Gamboa, M, Andersen, K, da Rocha, BG, Özçetin, S, Liu, Y, Hansen, LK, Milne, H & Paymal, L 2025, The Possibility of Protest. in Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: : Computing X Crisis., 22, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-4, 6th Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis, AAR Adjunct 2025, Aarhus, Denmark, 18/08/2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747091

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