Design Activism: An exploration of how different repertoires of design activism facilitate citizen participation, with emphasis on everyday resistance

社会运动有助于一个积极利用社会内部冲突和抵抗的竞争性民主。在过去十年中，抗议运动的频率和规模稳步增加，其轨迹预测，在未来几年中，抵抗和斗争将进一步上升。许多抗议运动采用了创造性的方法（或剧目，这是用来进行抗议的工具），这些方法超越了示威，游行和罢工的传统做法，包括引人注目的视觉效果，通过数字平台进行沟通，甚至是模因战。采用这些方法，即利用数字平台和为公民提供实践设计活动的资源，导致公民参与更具创造性的抗议活动。例如，大流行后世界的动员包括创新性地部署社交媒体、新技术和设计策略。随后，这诞生了一个机会，调查不同的创作方法（或剧目）的设计行动主义，设计师可以促进这一进程的方式之间的关系，以及对公众参与和参与的影响。这个研究项目旨在解决围绕设计的理论中的差距，作为一个包容性的学科，可以帮助实践一个更激进和可操作的方式竞争的民主。在研究设计行动主义如何渗透到公民的日常生活中，因为他们使用，促进，展示团结，或参与部署日常的“政治”或“不服从”的对象是巨大的价值。这项研究进一步探讨了剧目，可以部署由公民设计师实践和执行“日常阻力”和这种行动主义的影响，同时也调查了设计师在这个过程中的作用，促进参与和使用创意异议。它旨在研究如何将设计用作促进异议的工具，重点是了解如何使公民能够更有创造性地参与。因此，研究设计师与非设计师合作运用创意策略来影响社会变迁的可能性，具有重要的意义。

Social movements are instrumental to an agonistic democracy, which positively harnesses conflict and resistance within society. The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in the frequency and scale of protest movements, and the trajectory predicts that there will be a further rise in resistance and struggle in the forthcoming years. Many protest movements deploy creative methods (or repertoires, which are the tools used to perform a protest) that have transcended the traditional practices of demonstrations, marches and strikes to include arresting visuals, communication through digital platforms and even memetic warfare. Employing such methods, namely leveraging digital platforms and equipping citizens with the resources to practice design activism, has led to a rise in participation from citizens in protesting more creatively. For example, mobilization in a post-pandemic world has included the innovative deployment of social media, new technologies and design tactics. Subsequently, this births an opportunity to investigate the relationship between different creative methods (or repertoires) of design activism, the ways in which designers may facilitate this process, and the effect on public participation and engagement. This research project seeks to address the gap in theory surrounding design as an inclusive discipline that can help practice an agonistic democracy in more radical and actionable ways. There is immense value in examining how design activism may permeate into the daily lives of citizens as they use, promote, display solidarity, or engage with the deployment of daily 'political' or 'disobedient' objects. The study further explores the repertoires that may be deployed by citizen-designers to practice and perform 'everyday resistance' and the impact of such activism, while also investigating the role of designers within this process of facilitating participation and using creativity within dissent. It aims to investigate how design can be used as a tool to facilitate dissent, with emphasis on understanding how citizens can be empowered to participate more creatively. Therefore, it is significant to inspect the possibility of designers and non-designers to collaboratively use creative tactics to effect social change.