Memefest operates between academia, community and professional practice and marginal social positions. Imagine we are a global network of critical academics, curious students, adventurous professionals, passionate activists, gifted amateurs and close friends. //Radical design +extradisciplinary praxis. Social and environmental justice +decolonisation of knowledge and the public sphere. *Since 2002 (Happy 22th birthday!)

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Arturo Escobar and Oliver Vodeb: How can we reclaim participation again?

Oliver Vodeb and Colombian maverick anthropologist Arturo Escobar discuss the nature and politics of participatory design. They show urgent and hopeful potentials for true participation based on radical interdependence. How can we reclaim participation again?

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Memefest Saigon

We discovered the relational City and looked at the construction of space through food in beautiful Saigon. Also, it was a celebration of 20 years of Memefest!

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New Book: Radical Intimacies

Our new and fresh book!! An investigation into the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Check it out!

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Memefest

31.10.2024

spanish gate

oil on canvas

ize

art illustration

Memefest

31.10.2024

Monkey`s jump

oil on canvas

ize

art

Friendly competition

Showroom

La Comune di MIlano

lacomune

Love Conflict Imagination/2010-2011

Change your mind. Change our world.

Dmang8

Debt./2012

Spot the Difference

emilyharris

Food Democracy/2013

Consumed

susanagraph

Food Democracy/2013

Aura

alanhill

Pleasure/2016

Interventions

Memefest Interventions are global manifestations of direct action: education, investigation and social engagement.

2011

Maping Socially Responsive Communication, Nijmegen

2015

Memefest Havana!

2022

Relational City: The Construction of Space Through Food, Saigon

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Publishing

Check out our books * Radical knowledge beautifully designed *

Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities

This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis.