Knowledgebase

For a few pointers on carrying out projects, please log in and click "Cookbook." Once logged in, you can also solicit collaborators for your project ideas.

The best way to learn about actions is by doing a web search. Two tools are currently in development:

• Actipedia: A joint project of the Center for Artistic Activism and the Yes Lab, the Actipedia will seek to be a comprehensive, user-generated, user-ranked, and searchable database of creative activist projects. It will include new material (activist self-reports) and will also link to numerous examples that have already been described elsewhere. Launching spring 2012.
• Beautiful Trouble: An Activism Design Database. A project of Agit-Pop and the Yes Lab, with dozens of collaborators (including the Yes Men), Beautiful Trouble will compile and disseminate tried and tested techniques to a wider range of practitioners via a shared database of case studies, principles, tactics, and theories. Launching in January 2012.

For nitty-gritty instructions on carrying out creative activist projects of various sorts, including Yes Men style projects, visit Destructables.org, a project by Packard Jennings.

We're also developing an action forum Yes Lab "sherpas" and others to trade tips. Launching spring 2012.