Activating Social Movement Histories

An event bringing together three key activist archive organisations from London and New York. The evening was held at London College of Communication organised by research unit the Design Activism Research Hub (DARH).

Interference Archive, from New York, presented their work followed by a discussion with archivists from 56a Infoshop and the Feminist Library, both institutions a stone’s throw away from LCC with long and reputed histories of activism and collection. All three archives operate as autonomous centres of information, gathering and resistance in increasingly fraught surroundings and circumstances and where brought together to share principles and new tactics to navigate the contemporary landscape from an activist anarchist collective’s perspective.