Rise Rosa Rage

Rise•Rosa•Rage is a one-person archive founded in 2016 by curator Elisa, dedicated to preserving socio-political posters and print materials — most dating from the 1960s–80s — documenting protest movements, human rights campaigns, revolutions, and grassroots organizing from dozens of countries and languages. Many of these pieces exist outside traditional art or historical archives precisely because of their non-commercial, politically contested origins, which makes digitizing and making them accessible a meaningful preservation effort in its own right.

I worked on this project as part of the development team at Aircury, alongside designers and developers led by Cristobal and Elena. My contributions focused on:

The interactive Archive browsing experience — building out the structure and UI for navigating a large, eclectic collection spanning multiple decades, themes, and languages. An interactive map (Leaflet) — enabling geographic exploration of the collection, letting visitors browse materials by country or region of origin. UI improvements across several existing sections — refining usability and visual consistency on top of the site’s existing structure. Working within a Twig-based templating system, styled with Tailwind CSS, integrating new functionality cleanly into an established codebase rather than building from a blank slate.

The result is a site that makes a genuinely unusual and valuable archive — spanning themes from decolonization and student movements to labour rights and environmentalism — navigable and accessible to researchers, institutions, and the general public, rather than sitting inaccessible in physical storage.

My role: Frontend developer (team project, Aircury), focused on the archive browsing UI and map feature.

Live site: riserosarage.com