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

社会运动是激进式民主的工具，它积极利用社会内部的冲突和抵抗。过去十年，抗议运动的频率和规模稳步增加，轨迹预测，未来几年的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(或曲目，这是进行抗议的工具)，这些方法已经超越了示威、游行和罢工的传统做法，包括逮捕视频、通过数字平台进行交流，甚至是表情包战争。采用这样的方法，即利用数字平台并为公民提供实践设计激进主义的资源，导致公民更具创造性地参与抗议活动。例如，大流行后世界的动员包括创新地部署社交媒体、新技术和设计策略。随后，这产生了一个机会来调查不同的设计激进主义创作方法(或曲目)之间的关系，设计师可以促进这一过程的方式，以及对公众参与和参与的影响。这一研究项目试图解决围绕设计这一包容性学科的理论空白，以帮助以更激进和更可行的方式实践激进式民主。研究设计激进主义如何渗透到公民的日常生活中是有巨大价值的，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”物品。这项研究进一步探索了公民设计师可能会部署的剧目，以实践和执行“日常抵抗”，以及这种激进主义的影响，同时也调查了设计师在促进参与和在异议中使用创造力的过程中所扮演的角色。它的目的是调查如何将设计作为促进异议的工具，重点是了解如何赋予公民更具创造性的参与能力。因此，考察设计师和非设计师合作使用创造性策略以影响社会变革的可能性具有重要意义。

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.