Power & Balance / Organizing Otherwise
l designed a 60-card silkscreened deck for Organizing Otherwise, made to spark reflection and strengthen collective organizing. The 48 cards are the outcome of many conversations and collective processes, but they remain incomplete. Each set includes 12 blank cards for your own questions, which can also be shared for future editions. The set is printed in Farsi, French, German, Arabic, and English.
Organizing Otherwise works across facilitation, research, and production, three angles of one interconnected practice. Through collective methods, they resist individualization and the privatization of wellbeing, nurturing something rooted in reciprocity and care. The value is in both the micro and the macro, knowing each is vital for lasting change.
Some of the questions are:
Who is familiar with the codes and the cultural context the group is embedded in?
Who often has a sense of how others around them are doing?
Who does (emotional) care work in your group?
Do you want more power?
Who will eventually inherit assets, land or a proper amount of money?
What connection do you see between taking responsibility and taking power?
How can we decolonize (western) group culture?
