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Interrupción creativa

In 2015, protestor Josephine Witt creatively disrupts a news conference of the European Central Bank by jumping on to stage and glitter bombing the ECB president Mario Draghi. Photo: Getty Images

En breve

Se puede interrumpir un evento gritando o lanzando cosas, pero eso podría no ayudar a la causa. Es mejor interrumpir de forma creativa: con canciones, pancartas, burbujas — cualquier cosa que asegure que tu mensaje brille más que el de tus objetivos.

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Principio clave

Put your target in a decision dilemma

Well-designed creative disruption should leave your target no good option. If Nancy Pelosi had acknowledged or engaged with the protesters, she would have only elevated their credibility and drawn further attention to their message. Had security cleared out the silent activists, it would have looked heavy-handed. Had she left the scene, it would have been seen as a capitulation. Her least worst option, and what she chose to do, was continue with the event — whose meaning was then reframed by the silent protest signs around her. A well-designed creative disruption puts you in a win-win — and your target in a lose-lose — situation.

Ejemplos del mundo real

Mass Walkout at Wayne State Leaves IDF Spokesman Lecturing to Empty Room

At Wayne State University in Detroit, US, students silently exit a lecture by an Israeli Defense Forces spokesman, leaving an empty auditorium.

#StopCopCity solidarity activists disrupt APD’s hiring event with buckets of smelly shrimp

Atlanta Police received a warm welcome on their visit to recruit New Yorkers to their force… The Hilton Hotel venue was smelling like rotten shrimp!