The research project focuses on the various visual languages and design techniques employed by the New Left in Switzerland between 1960 and 1990 to challenge the legitimacy of the government, courts and police. This critique of the state's monopoly on violence coalesced with a revolution in perception. Visual contestation is the term used to describe the widespread creation of leaflets, magazines, brochures, wall newspapers, photographs, graffiti and other media that criticised the judiciary while challenging the bourgeois-capitalist society's visual conventions and establishing a radical-democratic understanding of design. With the help of archival sources and oral history, we are making tangible the visual contestation unleashed by the New Left against the judiciary. The end goal of this is to produce a monograph, although other forms of presentation may follow.
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