Posts Tagged ‘cultural resistance’

Blank Banners — See Me Speak at TWAB 2008

In Articles on 10 April 2008 tagged conferences, cultural resistance, game design, GD, ID, interaction design, lectures, mobile, play, presentations, Provo, The Web and Beyond 2008, TWAB 2008, TWAB08, web with 2 comments

In 1966 Provo took to the streets of Amsterdam with blank protest banners.1 The use of rousing slogans had been outlawed by the city’s mayor. The ‘protesters’ were arrested. Provo achieved their goal of making the authorities look silly by playing at protesting. They took existing rules and decided to play within them, to see [...]