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Co-Creating the Future: A Manifesto Workshop (UAL Wimbledon)
“We will pick and choose,
edit and adapt. We will re-word, re-structure, re-invent: re-manifest.”

A manifesto is inherently critical. It says: Something must change!

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We want something new! We need new forms, new mediums, new systems, new ways of interacting. But, once published, they’re like a snapshot of in a particular moment in time. They age, and the visions they set out must be updated to move with the times.

In this workshop we took existing manifestos as our starting point, and reformulate them to suit our own purposes. We kept what speaks to us, and casted off what is no longer relevant.
(Pearson, 2022)

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Find more information here.

Organised and held by
Daisy Storm Comber Pearson
https://gcd.studio/pages/co-creating-the-future 

To create a basis for discussion, Daisy provided us with a wide selection of manifestos written to support various ideas and motivations at various times in human history. The idea of ​​re-manifestation has a lot to do with my research question, as remixing and decontextualizing existing elements is also something I introduced into my artistic process. Imagining an alternative future involves looking at what proposals have already been made to restructure present society and how these ideas and demands have been expressed.​

A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st Century 

https://www.counterfire.org/women-s-liberation/3901-feminism-a-21st-century-manifesto

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Black Lives Matter Manifesto

https://uca.edu/training/files/2020/09/black-Lives-Matter-Handout.pdf

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Martin Luther Kings Speech

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

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Truisms 

https://truisms.space/

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Manifesto for Relationship Anarchy

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andie-nordgren-the-short-instructional-manifesto-for-relationship-anarchy

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Declaration of Independence

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

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The 10 Commandments

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We started to highlight and cut out what what spoke to us individually, and casted off what seemed no longer relevant.

After cutting I realised that the sections that I had kept could be grouped into two main groups of concerns / demands.

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The first grouping was highlighting the need to build communities that are more inclusive and put care at their center. It is about nurturing our interdependencies and communicating in a context of trust.

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The second grouping of passages was more concerned with recognising the rights of nature and the urgency to develop a harmony between the human and nature, society and the state and  between nations and the planet. I selected passages that spoke about climate change and capitalism.

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After we had finished our individual selections we shared them with each other and started to think about ideas we had in common and how we could combine our views into one semi-structured manifesto.

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Co-Creating the Future: A Manifesto Workshop – "Multivocal Manifesto"

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I have added a picture of our final manifesto which we divided into the sections:


Methodology
Aims and proposals 
Solutions
Dreams

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This workshop helped me to find new and old words to describe my ideas and to find connection and similarities to existing manifestos and with other students that I had never encountered before.

 

I will keep in touch with both of them as we really connected over this workshop. They are both part of a collective that wants to reshape the present and modernise theatre production and its critique of society which I find very fascinating.

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