Having recently visited Copenhagen both as part of my Architecture course and as a tourist, I became interested in the social axis between politics and society within the city. I discovered that there was quite a tradition of protest and public displays of dissatisfaction towards policies and proposal, often through the use of posters and stickers. The display of media and symbols act the as an effective method of raising awareness, as well as unification of many strata’s within the Copenhagen society. The limited space to rely on text only furthers the importance the images have – conveying both strong emotions and narratives throughout creative and catchy images. This led me to question, how could comic art be used as a tool to enact protest? Pushing both a constructive narrative and visual interactive dialogue, and highlighting political conflict and dissent as a fundamental of its design. Within Copenhagen the connections between the ‘city edge’ and the institutional core can be seen to be divided, both symbolically and physically, with more rural areas lacking a voice. This further developed my theme, with the idea of providing this voice to my fictional characters, similar to the movie “District 9”, where an alien race is subjugated and forced to live in slums, when finally given a voice they gain their freedom and independence to go home.