
Agents of Alternatives (AoA) is a feminist publishing collective based in Europe whose mission is to promote and support creative practices aimed at positive societal change amongst citizens, neighbourhoods and communities through practice-based art, design and architecture research. We publish books, zines, posters and much more, across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Our aim is to make accessible the valuable knowledge created through embodied critical practice, often marginalised, left undocumented or inaccessible to the public in academic libraries and journals.
We believe in building webs of interdependence, and are motivated by the manifold immaterial values which are nurtured and created through the joyful and mutual (re)production and sharing of knowledge. We welcome outputs in the languages we know (at current, English, German, Italian, French, Danish, and Finnish). Do contact us if you want to publish in a different language, together we can reach out to our networks for matching peer reviewers. All of our digital publications are open access and credited with an ISBN or ISSN number.
From 2014 to 2022, AoA was registered as a non-profit association based in Germany, publishing, amongst other, the book Agents of Alternatives - Redesigning Our Realities (2015) and running the neighbourhood project Common(s)Lab in Berlin (2017-21). Since 2024, AoA acts under the umbrella of the cultural association Brave New Alps in Italy. Currently, its editorial collective consists of: Dr Bianca Elzenbaumer, Dr Melissa Harrison, Flora Mammana, and Katharina Moebus. We are situated in the context of the community academy La Foresta (IT), the project farm Nyhavegård (DK), and the project space <top (DE).
Former AoA members were: Malin Bäckman, Alastair Fuad-Luke, Anja-Lisa Hirscher, Gaspar Mostafa, and Nicholas Torretta.



aaa atelier d’architecture autogerée
Alpine Changemaker Network
Alpine Community Economies Lab
Brave New Alps
CERN Community Economies Research Network
COMPANY DRINKS
Community Economies Institute
Grow Lab, Oslo
Haus des Wandels
IBEX - Institute for Business Experiments
La Foresta - accademia di comunità
Lines of Flight Research Group
Project farm Nyhavegård
The Floating University, Berlin
The Social and Cultural Centre of Vyronas, Athens
The Solidarity School of Mesopotamia, Athens
The Urban Commons Research Collective, Sheffield and beyond
Top e.V, Berlin
Trajna
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