A student project.
This is a call for work on an anti-austerity theme.
Austerity policies are destroying the social fabric of the UK.
Austerity is a political choice, not a necessity.
While there has been a number of demonstrations, campaigns and protests we feel a lot of the effects of austerity are hidden from view or seen in isolation from each other.
We are calling for graphic work to create a howl of protest about what austerity has done and demand it end, we want investment in our collective futures not cuts. The work will then be used out on the streets.
We are calling for work in poster format that shows the effects or expresses the opinions of those whose life has been affected by austerity. This could be our most vunerable citizens, the old, the frail, the disabled, the poor. It could be our services, the NHS, Schools, Social Care and those who work in them. It could be about how we live, the housing crisis or jobs, food banks, zero hours contracts and stagnating wages. Or it could be those to blame, the Banks and a system that only cares about profits not people. Whatever angle you choose, be imaginative, be bold and use your or other’s voices to take a stand.
The poster format can be thought of as either or both physical paper or digital, for walls in the urban space or social media walls, we are looking for imaginative responses to the format as well as content.
Paper based format “6 sheet” 1800 x 1200mm
Digital size specfic to use i.e. facebook/instagram/twitter etc.
By end of November 2018.
Send final designs via WeTransfer to:
info@occupydesign.org.uk
If you would like someone from the Occupy Design collective to come to your school to introduce the project we’d also be more than happy to come see you.
“The squeeze on public finances since 2010 is linked to nearly 120,000 excess deaths in England,
with the over 60s and care home residents bearing the brunt, reveals the first study of its kind,
published in the online journal” BMJ Open.
https://fullfact.org/health/austerity-120000-unnecessary-deaths/
‘30,000 excess deaths in 2015 linked to cuts in health and social care’
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-20-30000-excess-deaths-2015-linked-cuts-health-and-social-care
Anti-austerity in the UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom
Keep Our NHS Public
https://keepournhspublic.com/
Facts of NHS spending
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/nhs-myth-busters
Disabled People Against Cuts
https://dpac.uk.net/
We Own It
https://weownit.org.uk/
The True Cost of Austerity
http://www.poverty.ac.uk/editorial/true-cost-austerity
The True Cost of Austerity Oxfam Report
https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/cs-true-cost-austerity-inequality-uk-120913-en.pdf
The price of Austerity – TUC report
https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/ThePriceofAusterity.pdf
The Trussel Trust-Food Banks
http://www.thetrusselltrust.org
Cost of Banking Crisis – National Audit Office
https://www.nao.org.uk/highlights/taxpayer-support-for-uk-banks-faqs/
