Training for the Future is a training camp where audiences are turned into trainees to “pre-enact” alternative scenarios and reclaim the means of production of the future. This handbook gathers training manuals, interviews and documentation of the various training camps that took place from 2018 to 2021.

This publication extends Studio Experimentelles Design’s socially committed approach to design through conversations, lectures, research, debates, and project documentation. To critically examine design’s current practices, it asks questions of how designers work today, demanding a fundamental reorientation in the issues design addresses and the social actors it serves.

Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden was a kaleidoscopic curatorial project run by Tensta konsthall from 2013 to 2019 that dealt with the history and memory of the Stockholm suburb of Tensta and its inhabitants. The late-modernist suburb can also be said to be part of “New Sweden”—a place of diversity, struggle, contradiction, and solidarity distinct from the image of the twentieth-century social welfare state.

With the global rise of a politics of shock driven by authoritarian regimes that subvert the rule of law and civil liberties, what paths to resistance, sanctuary, and change can cultural institutions offer? In this book, more than twenty leading curators and thinkers about contemporary art present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy.

As Oliver Marchart claims, there has always been an activist undercurrent in art. In this book he traces trajectories of artistic activism in theater, dance, performance, and public art, and investigates the political potential of urbanism, curating, and “biennials of resistance.”