FOUNDERS & DIRECTORSSteve Lambert and Steve Duncombe debating dialectical materialism and the possibilities of su-perstructural auton-omy

그는 <Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and the Cul-tural Resistance Reader>( 접근성 , 오픈소스 , 토마스무어의 유토피아의 웹베이스 버젼 ) 등 여섯권의 책의 저자이자 편집자이기도 하다 . 그는 최근 뉴딜 시기의 선전예술에 대한 책을 집필 중이다 .

In 2008 Lambert worked with hundreds of people on “The New York Times Spe-cial Edition,” a utopian version of the paper announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other good news.

http://visitsteve.com/made/the-ny-times-special-edition/

In 2011 he built a 20 x 9 foot sign that reads CAPITALISM WORKS FOR ME!, allows passers by to vote TRUE or FALSE, and is touring it across the United States.

ABOUT NOT AN ALTERNATIVENot An Alternative is a ten year-old Brooklyn-based arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, institutions, and history. Through en-gaged critical research and design, the group curates and produces interventions on material and immaterial space, bringing together tools from art, architecture, exhibition design, and political orga-nizing.All these efforts are enacted with an eye towards social change and strategies for creative political intervention that involve creating participatory points of entry for arts audiences and everyday citi-zens alike–not through a typical head-on (or head-butt) approach, but through the occupation and redeployment of popular vernacular, semiotics, and memes.Not An Alternative’s creative actions, installations, and presentations have been featured within art institutions such as Guggenheim (NY), PS1/MOMA (NY), Tate Modern (London), Victoria & Albert Mu-seum (London), MOCAD (Detroit), and Museo del Arte Moderno (Mexico City), and in the public sphere, where they collaborate with community groups and activist mobilizations.Not An Alternative hosts free lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presenta-tions at their studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The space also consists of a production workshop, film-ing studio, video editing suite, and a shared office space (aka coworking) for freelancers and cultural producers.

Intelligent Mischief is a creative collective of cultural orga-nizers that engages creativity to build atmospheres of change.We provide space for working class people to experiment with creative actions to improve their own lively hoods through creative hacks and design projects. These modified hackathons combine co-design, marketing, and art tools to develop innovative strategies in communities of color to re-solve our own social problems (i.e. Black Body Survival Guide hacks). We ensure that culture and innovation are made central in so-cial justice strategies. We offer training and consulting to so-cial justice organizations and groups in need of support to creatively design their campaigns. Check out "Our Work" to see past groups we have collaborated with to design creative actions, campaign, and/or projects. Contact us if your group or organization is interested in scheduling a training or consult-ing session with us.We believe that the tricksters, thinkers, and artists make the world. Mischief-makers push the boundaries of authority and allow us to see what is possible.

DESIGN STUDIO FOR SOCIAL INTERVENTION

MISSIONThe Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) is dedicated to changing how social justice is imagined, developed and deployed here in the United States. We are creating a design studio for the progressive arm of the nonprofit sector in order to support the sector’s ability to create new forms of effective social intervention and the exploration of new ways to be interventionists.

IN PRACTICEWe function as a creativity lab for social justice work in the public sphere. The Stu-dio is a space where activists, artists, academics and the larger public come to-gether to imagine new approaches to social change and new angles to address complex social issues. We also design social interventions that engage populations in imagining and designing new solutions to social problems.For a closer look at some of the interventions we've worked on, click here. For a broader look at the many ways we do this work, check out our short What We Do paper.