Written by Marta Wronska on August 25, 2021
Sketchnotes from Animal Advocacy Conference 2021
animal advocacy . goals . motivation . sketchnotesAnimal Advocacy Conference Insights from the Social Sciences June 30 – July 2, 2021 The conference organized by Dr Kristof Dhont, Maria Ioannidou, Victoria Krings, and Alina Salmen with the help from members of SHARKLab at the University of Kent. Thanks to the organizers for preparing a fantastic, informative, and empowering event! Here are my
Written by Marta Wronska on January 27, 2021
How to accelerate social change? Creative thinking boosts donations and triggers perspective taking
animal advocacy . creativity explained . creativity in practiceA study, published by Zheshuai Yang and Iris W. Hung (2020) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that engaging in creativity triggers perspective taking and boosts donations. Here’s a visual summary of this article. SKETCHNOTE: see below BLOGPOST: you can read it here
Written by Marta Wronska on December 6, 2020
Animal activism: is it (not) for you? Animal advocacy explained.
animal advocacyReading time: 5 minutes All around the world, animal advocates work tirelessly to help animals. However, sooner or later, they all face the shitty truth: people love eating meat and dairy. Naturally, activists threaten people’s pleasure of eating. This obvious conflict discourages many vegans and keeps them away from the movement. But do they know
Written by Marta Wronska on April 20, 2020
Two creative discoveries that turned my idea of helping animals upside down
animal advocacy . creativity in practiceRemember how I argued that the problem of factory farming needs our best creative thinking skills? My point was that the scale of animal suffering is overwhelming, but the human population does very little to solve it. This sucks, but luckily, creative thinking is something that hopefully enables us to use scarce resources efficiently to
Written by Marta Wronska on February 17, 2020
Creativity: a must-have resource in the animal rights movement
animal advocacy . creativity explained . missionReading time: 4 minutes In my mind, factory farming has always been the worst nightmare I could ever imagine. One that makes The Saw look like a movie for toddlers, but unlike the Saw, it happens for real and affects billions of lives. Even though animal advocates from all over the world keep looking for