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From 20th of October to 1st of December Cultural days of Palestinian culture will take place in Maribor and Ljubljana (Slovenia).

Cultural embassy consist of exhibitions, palestinian poetry, documentaries, talks, etc.

For detailed programme visit the FB event site (just in slovenian language):
http://www.facebook.com/events/116124775210525/

I was involved in project as a designer of th…

rok

culture education design

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3e44e5665b7636d4b7fa2d326&id=4c9f7b2ef4&e=50fa083285

skndugan

society culture communication

Debts are an agreement between old and young generations.

assarmoth

art culture education

► http://vimeo.com/45164852

Entrevista a Eduardo Galeano en la que nos habla de la lucha necesaria en momentos en los que el mundo se tambalea frente a los ataques de los mercados neoliberales. Galeano nos confiesa su admiración por el movimiento 15M, al que dedica uno de sus días, nos habla de las mujeres de su América Latina.

“Ese mundo al revés administrado por los banqueros y los …

SanFrancisco

culture communication education video

"Es necesario darse cuenta de que la crisis del agua y de la agresión al medio ambiente implica revisar la manera de vivir y dejar de estar inmersos en la sociedad de consumo y en la cultura del úselo y tire."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xj17z628Bo

milenag

society culture community

Still, 26,9 % of the votes went to the "Siriza" party that opposes the debt driven politics enforced by EU and led by Germany. The pro debt politics oriented party "New Democracy" received 29,6 % of votes and is now building a coalition that will try to make sure the austerity measures will continue to enslave Greeks. But this is bad luck, because 55% of the voters actually voted for parties that…

oliver

society culture FESTIVAL

It's a good time to be in Montreal. It's spring time to be precise. Montreal is experiencing a huge upsurge in social activism for the last three months. The biggest student strike ever, has been lasting for eleven weeks now, and nothing seems to be stopping it. Montreal's got revolutionary momentum and as we know from the history of the sole French-speaking society in North-America, this can mea…

frederic

art photography culture activism

Proizvodnja života, odnosno životnih stilova, nije ništa drugo nego vrsta komodifikacije: formalizirovanje i estetizovanje života postaje kategorija robnog dizajniranja. Ako robu mislimo u Marksovoj paradigmi robnog fetišizma, onda život nije ništa drugo do stil, a on je stvar estetike. Estetika je produkt dizajniranja, dizajn je formalizacija, a formalizacija je, tehnički gledeno, komodifikacija…

nikolajanovic

society culture design critique

This is link to a paper I gave at a conference Design and Social Activism in Barcelona this summer, I thought it would interest people here. It draws on the fantastic theories of communcation that Mikhail Bakhtin and Valentin Volosinov wrote in the 20s in Russia, and looks at how the combination of economic collapse and network technology are feeding a dialogical battle over the meaning of Signs,…

Noel

theory culture activism critique

Check out this new web page and app that seems to serve as an awareness raising tool about slavery by indexing your 'slavery footprint'.

http://slaveryfootprint.org/

I'm happy to see that it manages to break out of the usual visual language of slavery campaigns featuring guilt inducing images of downtrodden people and distressed fonts with excessive use of black, red, and orange.

Instea…

kernow

illustration culture activism design