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06.07.2011
The success of any learning I believe takes roots with a commitment to the cause and although the concept of “Socially Responsive Communication” may be a novice concept in this age and time it is certainly not unapproachable in the Gulf Region and South East Asia. In many ways it has always been part of the social fabric and daily practice. We just need to be reminded. Perhaps this is one reason …
24.06.2011
It took several years of collaborative research to understand why there is this one communication culture and approach that is used in practice and that is at hand whenever »communication problems » need to be solved in the public sphere. With there is I mean this all encompassing presence of marketing based communication. It is naturalized, meaning, it has penetrated the logic of communication t…
13.06.2011
Vou tentar condensar pela primeira vez tudo o que tem acontecido por aqui em poucas palavras. Fato: Memefest Brasil encontra Memefest internacional. Participantes, curadores e organizadores, todos juntos por algo em torno de 10 dias num festival em Nijmegen, Holanda. Lá, encontramos participantes do International Media Training - que fariam a cobertura do festival Oddstream [ http://www.oddstream…
10.06.2011
Indeed it was magic. And radical. Memefest "Mapping socially responsive communication" workshop brought together almost thirty fantastic thinkers, educators, designers, artists, activists, students, researchers, proffesionals and above all: good people from arround the world together for eight days of dialogue, work, inspiration and fun. We all came to beautifull Nijmegen's Oddstream festival and…
10.06.2011
09.06.2011
The week at Memefest Festival of Radical Communications on mapping socially responsive communications as provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on what it means to make communications that address societal problems. Oliver Vodeb described seven characteristics of socially responsive communications as a starting point from which the group assembled to build on the theory by creating new maps. …
09.06.2011
I was one who asked the male panel at Memefest's Festival of Radical Communications 'Inspiration day' why there were no women presenters. I think it's worth unpacking this topic a little with the intention of helping Memefest develop into an network with strong input from women and other marginalised voices. Diversity of representation should by now be standard practice in any international netw…
27.05.2011
« C'est le coup d'envoi! » lance Jasmine Catudal d'un air défiant, pour désigner la belle soirée d'ouverture du OFFTA qui attend les montréalais ce vendredi 27 mai. Celle qui cumule les chapeaux de directrice générale et artistique du plus hybride des festivals de Montréal a le sourire collé aux lèvres. Mais pourquoi donc? Qui a t-il de si explosif dans cette 5ème édition du Festival d'arts vivan…
24.05.2011
On a hot spring night, Mara Vujić, director of the City of Women Festival, accepted to answer a few questions. A couple days later, the woman from Slovenia sent back the 'intervju', as she calls it. This is all just online foreplay but you better get ready: Mara's coming to town!
FD: City of Women is the name of your project. Is it pure
coincidence or is there a reason that it has the same n…
13.05.2011
