Remaking Democracy: How We Make The Worlds We Want is a guidebook for social change that teaches how to analyze problems, consult desires, and design interventions to grow participation. Because participation is the undoing of fascism, this book aims to help you collaborate in designing your own participation and building the participation of others. An accessible and practical resource, it braids theory, assignments, and stories of successful interventions to teach you how to leverage your expertise into a strategy for making social change in your field. Its theory, the Spiral of Change, recombines ideas from the Frankfurt School, Black Feminism, Cybernetics, and experimental arts practice into a methodology by which you can use your knowledge to address the problems that matter to you. Its examples of successful interventions include media justice, prison phone justice, radical education, housing justice, redesigning healthcare, and local organizing against police violence.
The School for Designing a Society is a project of artists, activists, and teachers, that draws from the arts, systems- and critical theory, and the writings of Herbert Brün to help participants imagine and design projects in the service of their desired society. Elizabeth arrived as a student in 2005, and has been teaching since 2010.
Julie and Elizabeth's Anti-Capitalist Concert Series encourages musicians and audiences to connect musical affect to their political desires, and reimagine our relations of production. Besides programming and commissioning political new music relating to a theme, these concerts experiment with format, extra musical content, and discussion. Recent themes have included Income Inequality, EcoSocialism, Wage Labor, Abolition, and Utopias.