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This is a Manifesto Club photo-album, capturing unnecessary, absurd or patronising safety warnings in public spaces. By turning our cameras on needless safety tape and signage, we hope to expose those who put them there - and encourage a more rational approach.
This project launched on 23 October, with a photo-essay by Tom Mower, 'Attention Please: A Walk Interrupted by Safety Signage'.
View photo-essay here
We are now asking people to send in photos of any over-cautious safety signage they encounter in their towns, cities, or places of work. This open online album will run for 8 weeks, until early December. Each week a 'photo of the week' will be chosen for the album's homepage.
Submit Photo
We are inviting reflections on this photo album, and on the question of safety measures in public space. (See
Responses)
The Manifesto Club campaigns against the hyperregulation of everyday life. We support free movement across borders, free expression and free association. We challenge booze bans, photo bans, vetting and speech codes - all new ways in which the state regulates everyday life on the streets, in workplaces and in our private lives.
We believe that the freedom issues of the twenty-first century cut across old political boundaries, and require new schools of political thought, and new methods of campaigning and organisation.
www.manifestoclub.com
Tom Mower is a graphic designer who graduated from the communication design course at the Royal College of Art in 2006. He has coordinated discussions for the RCA's Woodhill Park Critical Forum, and given lectures and workshop at several universities. His work has also featured in magazines such as Graphic, Idea and DAMn.
www.tommower.co.uk
www.st-pierre-and-miquelon.com
