Actipedia
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Actipedia is a wiki-style database of creative-activism tactics, organised as practitioner-contributed case write-ups tagged by change (the outcome sought), region (where it took place), medium (the form of expression: photography, street intervention, public art, song, theatre, online) and issue (the underlying cause) [source: actipedia]. The tag system is the spine of the site: where most activism libraries group by method, Actipedia groups first by the issue and only secondarily by tactic, so a visitor can ask “what has worked on queer rights in West Africa?” and get specific examples rather than a generic method list [source: actipedia].
The site was launched by the Arts & Protest collective and is presented as a participatory archive; entries are written by the practitioners who carried the action and curated by site editors, with full credit given to the original creators [source: actipedia]. Each entry shows a date, the practitioner’s name, a write-up of the action, and short comments from site visitors; entries cover art interventions, public-space occupations, mobile libraries, sky-writing, billboard campaigns, public-art installations and similar non-conventional tactics [source: actipedia]. The visual depth matters: entries regularly link photos, video, and press coverage so a visitor can see what the action looked like on the ground, not just read a description [source: actipedia].
A campaigner uses Actipedia to find analogues when planning an unconventional action (“has anyone done a public-library-as-tank-stunt?”), to scout collaborators in adjacent regions, and to read short first-person accounts of how similar tactics played out in their issue area [source: actipedia]. The breadth is global - Argentine, Ghanaian, Norwegian, Tunisian, Hong Kong and US entries appear in the same feed - which makes the database useful for cross-context inspiration rather than local precedent [source: actipedia]. Treat the source as link-only: paraphrase cases into your own campaign write-ups. [source: actipedia]
Use it for
Browsing creative-activism tactics with images; finding practitioner case write-ups.
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