UNBLOCKED

This project explores the hidden systems that shape how people behave, coordinate, preserve meaning, and retain autonomy.

It began through decentralised and peer-to-peer technologies like Tor, Bitcoin, and Signal, but it has grown into a broader conversation about agency, value, and culture.

It is culture hacking: using symbols, language, aesthetics, and participation to shift social norms.

• Ownership vs dependence
• Permanence vs decay
• Peers vs hierarchies
• Energy vs stagnation
• Resilience vs convenience

Autonomy needs options.

Poster Contest

Learn about the poster contest and how designers can take part.

OWNERSHIP

Ownership is the main theme for the new poster contest.

It asks what is truly yours in a world where access can be granted, limited, removed, or controlled by someone else.

Read the Ownership theme

Go to poster contest

Other Themes

Other themes that may be explored later.

1. Permanence

   What changes when you create what cannot be undone, and when you embrace what inevitably fades?

2. Energy

   Every creation has a hidden cost: where does the power come from, and what does it truly secure?

3. Peers

   How do we build community and trust in a living web of equals with no gatekeepers above us?