Manifesto
This note aggregates forward-oriented and declarative or programmatic approaches such as manifestoes as examples of methods that can constrain and inspire practice and action.
Cf.
- Scenarios
- forecasting, backcasting, Futuring, Imagination
- guidelines
- charters
Weiss, Penny, and Wynne Moskop. ‘Ecofeminist Manifestos: Resources for Feminist Perspectives on the Environment’. Women’s Studies International Forum 83 (2020): 102418. https://doi.org/10/gptb4g.
In Political Imagination and Law
Linebaugh, Peter. The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Weiss, Penny, and Wynne Moskop. ‘Ecofeminist Manifestos: Resources for Feminist Perspectives on the Environment’. Women’s Studies International Forum 83 (2020): 102418. https://doi.org/10/gptb4g.
Potter, Emily, Fiona Miller, Eva Lövbrand, Donna Houston, Jessica McLean, Emily O’Gorman, Clifton Evers, and Gina Ziervogel. ‘A Manifesto for Shadow Places: Re-Imagining and Co-Producing Connections for Justice in an Era of Climate Change’. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2020, 2514848620977022. https://doi.org/10/gjbn23.
Cullinan, Cormac. Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice. 2nd ed. 2003. Reprint, Totnes: Green Books, 2011.
Gorbachev, Mikhail. Manifesto for the Earth: Action Now for Peace, Global Justice, and a Sustainable Future. La Vergne: Clairview Books, 2006.
Lestel, Dominique. Eat This Book: A Carnivore’s Manifesto. Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
As Satirical/Provocative/Distopian Devices
A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
In Science and Academia
Dupré, John, and Daniel Nicholson. ‘A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology’. In Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, edited by Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré, 3–45. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Stengers, Isabelle, and Stephen Muecke. Another Science Is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science. Cambridge: Polity, 2018.
Holm, Poul, Joni Adamson, Hsinya Huang, Lars Kirdan, Sally Kitch, Iain McCalman, James Ogude, et al. ‘Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action’. Humanities 4, no. 4 (December 2015): 977–92. https://doi.org/10/gfsjkn.
More-than-Human
Andreyev, Julie. ‘The Compassion Manifesto: An Ethics for Art + Design and Animals’. In Critical Perspectives on Veganism, edited by Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen, 155–80. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Collard, Rosemary-Claire, Jessica Dempsey, and Juanita Sundberg. ‘A Manifesto for Abundant Futures’. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105, no. 2 (2015): 322–30. https://doi.org/10/gftcks.
Gare, Arran. The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A Manifesto for the Future. London: Routledge, 2017.
Gibson, Katherine, Deborah Bird Rose, and Ruth Fincher, eds. Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2015.
Haraway, Donna. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century’. In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 149–81. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Haraway, Donna. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
Mosquin, Ted, and Stan Rowe. ‘A Manifesto for Earth’. Structurist, no. 43/44 (2004 2003): 5–9.
Hollo, Tim. Living Democracy: An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World as We Know It. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, University of New South Wales Press, 2022.
In Art, Design, And Architecture
What happened to the architectural manifesto?
Historical/heroic/overviews:
Jencks, Charles, and Karl Kropf, eds. Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture. Chichester: Academy Editions, 1997.
Danchev, Alex. 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists. London: Penguin, 2011.
Examples:
Bell, Genevieve, and Joseph Kaye. ‘Designing Technology for Domestic Spaces: A Kitchen Manifesto’. Gastronomica 2, no. 2 (2002): 46–62. https://doi.org/10/bxsgm8.
Eklöf, Johan, and Elizabeth DeNoma. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life. 2020. Reprint, New York: Scribner, 2023.
Busch, Otto von. Making Trouble: Design and Material Activism. Designing in Dark Times. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Da Costa, Beatriz, and Kavita Philip, eds. Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
Fuad-Luke, Alastair. Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World. London, UK: Earthscan, 2009.
Thorpe, Ann. Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth. Abingdon: Earthscan, 2012.
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