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Adfree Cities is excited to announce that Digital Dystopia, our anti-advertising digital installation, is now in residence at SPARKS Bristol until Sunday 16 February 2025, beginning a UK tour throughout 2025. Digital Dystopia is a visual art experience using reclaimed e-waste to reveal how major polluters use ads to greenwash their image. It debuted at…Continue reading Adfree Cities’ Digital Dystopia UK tour begins in Bristol
It’s not often that Adfree Cities calls for MORE content on advertising screens, but this petition is doing the rounds, and we think it’s a call that we should support. The petition is asking the government to run a public information campaign on the climate crisis. It suggests that this covers the significance of having…Continue reading A public information campaign on the climate crisis? What a good idea!
Digital Dystopia is an innovative visual art experience made from e-waste which reveals how major polluters use advertising to manipulate the public….Continue reading Fearless Cities: re-imagining the commons and introducing ‘Digital Dystopia’.
Advertising for polluting Range Rover SUVs on Transport for London underground stations …Continue reading Pressure on Transport for London to ban high-carbon advertising
Adfree Cities travelled to Manchester to host a panel at the Green Party Conference’s ‘fringe-fringe’ event, Hopeful Humanity. Our event, which was entitled ‘Our Space not Ad Space: reclaiming public space from harmful advertising’ covered the psychological damage of advertising, the limitations of the current regulating authority, and the ways that communities can fight back against it…Continue reading Our Space not Ad Space: Adfree Cities at the Green Party Conference
It’s hard to ignore Shell right now: their newest high-spend ad campaign, made by the agency VML, has been rolling out across the country on multiple channels since April. You’ve probably seen it: an engineer in a red boiler suit climbs through intersecting screens to demonstrate the number of ways in which Shell is ‘powering progress’ in the UK….Continue reading Shell greenwash ads defy regulator’s warnings again