Cultural Interventions

Projects listed here have been completed or remained dormant for more than 12 months, though they may be revived in the future. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of Democracy School projects and initiatives. For more information, to share ideas or propose a collaboration, please contact us using the form provided here.

CIRCULAR and the

Forest Ecologies

Taking the forest, metaphorically and literally, as its starting point and inspiration, this proposed publishing collaborative brings together artists, scientists, theorists, and activists from around the world within CIRCULAR, an informational online ecosystem, to co-author a FOREST MANIFESTO. [more]

Publications

• The CIRCULAR -- A Field Guide
  
• Småland Forest Report

​FEED // a_social_opera

With this project, we aim to create an imagined world in word and sound that enables us to engage not only artistically and aesthetically, but also critically and ethically, with the increasing fragmentation and polarisation of society at a time of global crisis. [more]

Publications

• FEED // a_social_opera
  

Useful Links

• Project Page
  
• The ideas underpinning FEED
• The story of FEED this far
• ​The Instant Opera Manifesto​
  

Silent Lectures​

...at their most basic, consist of people coming together in peace to jointly contemplate in silence something that matters to them: a loss, an injustice or a victory for example. [more]

Publications

• Silent Lecture Concept and Form
  
• Silent Lecture Info Pack
  

Useful Links

​​Web pages

• ​​silentlectures.org​
• unruhe.eu/silent-lectures​

​​​​Documentation

• unruhe.eu/notes/category/silent-lectures

WePolter!

...is a loose network of artists who, through their practice cross, blur or erase the line between art and politics. They are not affiliated with any political party, but are nonetheless committed to bringing about fundamental and lasting social, environmental and economic change. [more]

Useful Links

• Project Page (on unruhe.eu)