Decentralization only matters if people use it, but adoption starts with meaning, not code.

This talk starts with art as activism, showing how creative work like the theater project System Err 2052 can turn ideas like privacy and autonomy into something people can feel and relate to. It also connects to cypherpunk culture, where code, art, and resistance have always gone together to protect freedom and challenge control.

It then moves to design and technology, looking at how developers can build privacy tools that people actually want to use. With new research and real examples, it shows that usability is a form of activism, and that protecting user rights is both a technical and a creative task.