The Compassionate Troublemaker Manifesto
How principles of a different kind can guide our way forward.
The #CompassionateTroublemaking Manifesto looks at the heart of both our individual and our collective work. It explores how we can use our potential as human beings to grow wonderful things around us and highlights the importance of questioning the status-quo, opening up conversations and reclaiming space around us. It’s a ‘guide-in-flux’ of sorts, assuming little and exploring all while prioritising the strength of human connection.
Why a Manifesto?
Throughout history the term 'Manifesto' has carried weight. Martin Luther King’s 1963 "I have a dream" speech, at it’s heart, is a manifesto for building a better world. The artist Andre Breton’s 'Surrealist Manifesto’, through the use of absurdist humour and surrealist art, looked to diversify that which we see as creative. Aaron Swartz’s 2008 'Guerilla Open Access Manifesto' explored how the holding of public access data, knowledge and cultural information by private individuals and companies was maintaining an unhealthy and unjust power dynamic. Swartz believed that this status-quo needed to be actively challenged through the democratic sharing of information.
