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Open Call: Tools for Radical Cooperation Collaborative Artist Book Project
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Posted by: Lehigh University
Deadline: Mon, June 1st, 2026
Open Call Overview
Tools for Radical Cooperation is a new collaborative publication that will feature the work of contributing artists, designers, writers, philosophers, and dreamers on different tools and modalities to overcome social division. This cooperative project invites us to create our dream future together.
This published text will be printed, hand bound, and acquired by Montgomery College in the Mudd Library, Hamiltonian Artists library The Annex, and The Tucson Herb Store. This publication is made with the intention to share ideas and designs that can be applied, modified, and deployed at various scales both nationally and internationally to overcome divisive propaganda, hate, discrimination, and the rise of global authoritarianism.
The book will house a collection of works and ideas that will address the challenges of today and provide frameworks of hope, speculative design and actionable steps for the readership of this text and the current human condition.
All contributors will be credited with their name, submission title, and the year the work was made, in addition to any photo credit information on supplied images, unless the creator would like to otherwise remain anonymous.
Application Anonymity and Inclusion/Exclusion of Location Information
The request to share location information in the application seems relevant to the project to identify the challenges specific to regions, climates, communities, cities, and countries at large. For instance what is going on in Minnesota is far different than what might be occurring in Texas. Both have their challenges, but the location does in fact offer context to the submission. Submissions from people living in Canada, Palestine, Iran, Israel, Ukraine, Greenland, Denmark, Mexico, etc. all face different conflicts and the location helps the reader contextualize the challenges. This is why the question is included in the application.
However, given the threat of ICE targeting Americans, and governments of other countries and employers both target people speaking out, the project open call by no means wants people to share their location and name if they do not feel safe to do so. There are instructions in the application for submissions to remain anonymous and not location bound for the safety of those contributing to the publication . Please be safe and know this open call is only here to create a book of tools to help, not endanger people in the process.
Below is a proposed outline of the book in different chapter sections:
Tools to hold and processes loss and grief
Tools to survive
Tools to overcome fear
Tools to unlearn, decolonize, and upend systemic injustices
Tools to create ecologies of care
Tools for mutual aid, medicine making and collective healing
Tools to gather, educate, and mobilize
Tools for radical cooperation and consensus building
Tools to rest, pause and recenter
Tools to destabilize and topple tyranny
Tools to wayfind through times of uncertainty to a new beginning
Tools for our dream future
Tools to help us remember
Who Can Submit
Anyone! There are no eligibility requirements. No prior publication experience is required. Multiple submissions are welcome (and encouraged!). Please share old work and new work.
Deadline
June 1st 2026 11:59 pm EDT
Application Link
Documentation & Professional Support
Your submitted work may be in any format, written, sculpture, a proposal, etc. However, if your submission(s) includes physical (art)work (2D or 3D) and you are willing to temporarily loan the work for documentation, a professional photographer will be hired to photograph the work for the book. High-quality digital images will be provided free of charge to contributors to support portfolio development and future professional advancement in art and design fields.
Multiple Submissions Welcome
The book is not limited to the number of submissions so feel free to submit another application if more ideas surface. This book in and of itself is designed to be a tool housing a collection of tools to help the collective dream up a new inspiring future and develop the tools we will need to bring that dream to fruition.
What is Considered a Tool?
The word, Tool, can mean many things. Ranging from a physical instrument used to complete a certain task, to more elusive examples like seeing imagination as a tool. Your tool can take on any form or format.
Some examples of Tool Formats can include but are not limited to:
Joke
Riddle
Game
Collection of inspirational quotes
Diary entry
A physical reimagined tool
Written manifesto
Drawing
Speculative tool
A set of instructions
A lesson plan or curricular outline
Infographic
Recipe
Sculpture
Book
Playlist
Collection of shower thoughts
Poem
An invention
A diagram or proposal
Architectural models and renderings
Meme
Dance
Herbal concoctions
Painting
Performance
Screenplay
Storyboard for a pilot episode
Rituals and practices
Nervous system regulation tools
Fidget toy
Self-care support
Posted on Tue, April 14th, 2026
Expires on Mon, June 1st, 2026
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