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Comerades

31.10.2024

Arturo Escobar and Oliver Vodeb: How Can We Reclaim Participation Again?

Our first podcast in the Radical Intimacies series is published! :)
Arturo Escobar and I discuss about participatory design and how and why it has historically been loosing its initial political and radical dimensions, but also we discuss of course how to radicalize participatory design in current times.

Check it out here: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/

Memefest

19.08.2024

Radical Intimacies Podcast series!

New Podcast Series Alert!

Get ready for deep dives, radical ideas, and mind-bending conversations! We’re announcing that we work on a new podcast series featuring our book Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities. We aim to break down barriers, rethink design through insightful conversations with Oliver Vodeb and the amazing minds who contributed to this amazing and beau…

Memefest

20.03.2023

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26.02.2020

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…

Comerades

08.06.2016

The Pleasure of Radical Gardening

“Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.”
Ian Hamilton Finlay cited in George McKay’s Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden.

When I first saw the theme for this year’s Memefest Friendly Competition, my instant response to the word ‘Pleasure’ was gardening. Not very radical might be one’s first response but for me the pleasure of gard…

Comerades

25.01.2015

RACHE

a still from the long awaited project from Valerio Evangelisti, the most acclaimed Italian Sci Fi writer.
The movie depicts the end of Europe and the rise of an organization born from the ashes of nazism.

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15.11.2014

KONSPIRAMA

http://www.paglen.com the NAME OF THE GAME, he is for real the fourth eye of our crumble reality made of tellers and whistleblowers. Machiavelli meets William Burroughs and James Joyce. Trevor Paglen sees beyond the veils.

Comerades

03.07.2014

Creativity

The quotes below are from my recent article called Creativity published 2 July 2014. Most of the quotes below are about CollaboNation by Jess Bush which I am trying to give people the opportunity to know more about it. Read the full article at Systems Thinking Designer on Wordpress here is the link: http://systemsthinkingdesigner.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/creativity-3/

"I have a utopian dream t…

Comerades

20.02.2014

New Book: InDEBTed to Intervene

We are very excited to let you know about our new book. We have been working on it for more than a year and the book is as beautifull and strong in any way as was the adventure in to researching debt and making it.

The book is an investigation in to Debt as the key instrument that defines current social relations- through the lens of communication, design and art. It is both- theory and pract…