Projects with Clear Long-Term Goals

These projects have long-term goals for change. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
The Sea of Escape
Practitioner:
Qiong Zhang
Date:
Nov 19 2022

"I collected 83 images of disappeared women from Chinese social media. I printed them out, cut them, organized them, and made them into a tarot deck called "Missing Persons Notice.'"

The Swasticar
Practitioner:
Everyone Hates Elon
Date:
Feb 26 2025

It appears Elon Musk has enemies all over the world.

The tech billionaire — currently the planet’s richest man and CEO of Tesla — has integrated himself into U.S. politics, becoming Donald Trump‘s head of a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and aligned himself with far-right politicians in Europe.

Green Bronx Machine
Practitioner:
Stephen Ritz
Date:
Jan 1 2009

Children in marginalized communities often lack access to healthy foods, especially fresh fruits and vegetables. Poor nutrition, in turn, has significant negative impacts on a child’s health and ability to focus in school. Learning and academic achievement often plummet.

Imagination Playground
Practitioner:
David Rockwell
Date:
Jan 1 2010

When award-winning architect David Rockwell started spending time in playgrounds with his young children, he was disturbed by the lack of imagination and variation in the way kids interact with standardized playground equipment. He spent five years developing the Imagination Playground, seeking private-public partnerships to see it realized.

Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls
Date:
Jan 1 1989

The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this billboard for the Public Art Fund (PAF) in New York, aimed to criticize the museum institutions for under-representing female artists and objectifying women.

Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy
Practitioner:
Led by Donkeys
Date:
Feb 24 2023

Yesterday morning (23 February), Led by Donkeys staged a protest in front of the Russian embassy in London, creating a large-scale public artwork in solidarity with Ukraine. The group poured litres of yellow and blue paint on each side of the carriageway on Bayswater Road. Activists then used brushes to create a Ukrainian flag that would stretch the length of the embassy.

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