ARTIVISM is a neologism combining the words art and activism. It refers to both the social and political engagement of activist artists and to the use of art by citizens as a way of expressing political positions. Historically, the term artivism gained notoriety through its use by Latin-American activists and artists working in California. Artivistic expression can take innumerable forms, many of which are combined during artivistic events: from mural art, graffiti, comic strips, music, flash mobs, theatre, to the invention of new forms of expression, e.g. digital artivism and hacktivism. Recent forms of artivism that use performance art find their roots in other experimental artistic movements developed in the 1960s, and aim to awaken the public from its “supposed inertia” by bringing aesthetics to the core of politics (www.erc-artivism.ch; www.atlasoftransitions.eu/).