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08.11.2018

The Anatomy of the Book Conference

The fine people at RMIT are together with @frasermuggeridgestudio organizing this conference at RMIT Barcelona titled The Anatomy of the Book. It really is great staff, and if you have a chance, go and participate- the conference is free! Check more here on the web site:

RMIT Europe, Barcelona
Monday 26 November

A free one-day conference dissecting the contemporary book from a range of pe…

Memefest

03.09.2018

FOOD DEMOCRACY BOOK: ON PLEASURE PRAXIS AND OTHER THINGS

Here is full info on the book:

Food Democracy, Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and art. Edited, curated and written by Oliver Vodeb, Published by Intellect Books, Uk

We worked hard to keep the price of the book low. BUY THE BOOK HERE OR HERE- check what works better for you.

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What prompted you to create Food Democracy?

I am mostly developing research around w…

Memefest

19.08.2018

Design is Not Enough

This text was originally written during the Declarations conference at Concordia University in 2001 in Montreal, Canada.

It was at that time when we were preparing the first Memefest, which happened in 2002. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia we felt truly inspired to read this lines and learn more about the Declarations event. It showed us that there is a really impressive and organized scene of d…

Memefest

19.01.2018

Food/Media/Crisis - Memefest Los Angeles sessions

Food/Media/Crisis:
Memefest Los Angeles sessions
Feb 9-10, 2018
Pomona College LA

A special two-day workshop / critical discussion facilitated by Memefest on the intersections of Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics.

This workshop will examine the corporate takeover of our food by connecting Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics. Food/…

Memefest

10.04.2017

Pleasure Praxis Education & Research: The Memefest Melbourne  Sessions

The Second International Swinburne Memefest Extradisciplinary Symposium, Workshop/ Interventions event was held from November 21-28th at Swinburne University in Melbourne. This was the fourth Memefest event held in Australia, (check links to previous events at bottom of this post) and it continued to implement the unique Memefest approach to education, research and public engagement.

Memefest

25.02.2017

LECTURE Roderick Grant Critical Infrastructure: Landscape, Intention and Intervention

What we see as the outward visual denotation of urban infrastructure is not always connected directly to what it might connote as a symbol, an index, or as an embodiment of policy, need, capital and spatial practice. The objective of this new research and scholarship is to bring to light the disjunctions and contradictions in the visual coherence of our urban infrastructure, and to reveal how we …