Protest Cookbook
Protest Cookbook is a design concept of the community that helps citizens transform their individual acts of resistance into a collective and shared protest. The idea is an outcome of my design-led exploration into the post-pandemic futures of protest. Building upon the analysis of the self-intelligent and organic structures of contemporary social movements, the project seeks to ask: when does disobedience become a protest? What makes a successful protest? How can design allow individuals to become multiple? How can multiplication be achieved without being together in one space and one time?
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Protest blueprints
Analysing the phases of growth and the structure of social movements through secondary research and interviews with activists showed the analogy between protest and open source format. As I was mapping the stories of resistance shared by my interviewees, I realised that the main component of protest's success is multiplication. It gives a collective aspect to the acts of resistance transforming them into contagious, organic, leaderless and self-driven movements.
