Today’s mainstream economy only focuses on economic growth.
The continuous hunt for profit leads to immense exploitation of people and planetary resources.
We need system change! We need different economies!
Economies that work for people and planet! But what does it look like? What can it look like?
Contextualization of Not so mysterious in my surroundings, Kalmar, Sweden
Photos by Sára Bartošová
Not so mysterious is a poster project highlighting some transformative economic alternatives that are taking place all around the world, showing that not only is system change actually happening, it is happening locally. It is happening when your government decides to go for a wellbeing economy. It is happening when your city implements Doughnut Economics. It is happening when you start growing your own food. Or when you borrow something instead of buying it. And it is happening when you and your neighbors start to collaborate to grow food and to share your things. System change is not more mysterious than that. It is not more mysterious than libraries, tool and activity libraries, public parks, community and urban farming, sharing-initiatives like car-sharing, trading-initiatives like swap stores, repair shops, and farm to table initiatives, and the list could go on!
Posters for social media
Not so mysterious is a poster project consisting of posters that can be used by you, and by initiatives working in an economic sphere not ruled by profit. They exist for social media (as seen above) and for print, in English, Swedish and Norwegian. Scroll to see!
<All the posters can be downloaded from here! You find them in English, Swedish and Norwegian, in A3 and for social media!> Hope you can forgive me for sharing it through a google drive link, I know it kinda clashes with the whole anti-capitalist agenda, but when all came to all it was the only technical solution that didn’t crash this site, so I decided to use google for my own advantage.
Posters put up in my surroundings, Kalmar, Sweden
Photos by Sára Bartošová
You can download the posters and put them up in your surroundings, in your local swap-store, on social media – use the posters however you want, I trust that you are nice. And if you want the text to be more site specific, contact me and I will be happy to adapt it for you!
All nine posters for print:
<All the posters can be downloaded from here! You find them in English, Swedish and Norwegian, in A3 and for social media!> And if you want the text to be more site specific or mention your specific initiative, contact me and I will be happy to adapt it for you!
Window exhibition in/on +Change Project Space in Kalmar, Sweden:
GIF photos by Ruairí Moore
My classmate Anna McCarthy’s work is hanging above mine
Some process:
I tried to apply the ideas of non-profit and accessibility to my process as well. For most of the visual work I restricted myself to only use things I found at home, plus a regular printer that can be found at most libraries. The final posters are printed with the same printer on regular A3 paper, and put up with homemade glue known as wheatpaste or Marxist glue – super cheap and no weird chemicals! <Here is a great recipe for wheatpaste!>
Creating a font that exists in a state of change and filling it with a sense of locality.
<All the posters can be downloaded from here! You find them in English, Swedish and Norwegian, in A3 and for social media!> Hope you can forgive me for sharing it through a google drive link, I know it kinda clashes with the whole anti-capitalist agenda, but when all came to all it was the only technical solution that didn’t crash this site, so I decided to use google for my own advantage. If you want the poster text to be more site specific or mention your specific initiative, contact me and I will be happy to adapt it for you!
