Design (Research) as Radical Social Practice Lecture

This Thursday hosted by @Counter-Framing Design @Loughborough University. You can register via link bellow.

Design (Research) as Radical Social Practice

Dr Oliver Vodeb

Thursday 25th November at 10am GMT

Register for the online seminar here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYldO-qrD4uHtJ3ri6Qut3rrtL0u8SmYCVg

Abstract

The realization of the importance to connect theory, research and philosophy with social movements has manifested in the streets of Paris in the 1960’ with the slogan “Mao, Marx, Marcuse” and it was clear that Situationist theory would not make much sense without its communization. But how to communize knowledge and design practice today? How can we think about what we can call “radical design” if a) design is predominantly professionalized knowledge production, if b) the academization of design faces a constant threat of the destruction of the “academic” within the neoliberal university and c) if the community, the communal seems to have the potential to generate a radical intimacy, as a particular non–extractive relationality between people AND at the same time a special quality of closeness/proximity to the subject of designing and investigating (researching), crucial for facing key existential problems today. These potentials will be explored through the lens of Memefest’s extradisciplinary methodology. The lecture is based on a chapter from the book Radical Intimacies, edited, written, and curated by Oliver Vodeb, forthcoming with Intellect Books and Memefest in 2022.

Read more about the whole seminar series on the Counter Framing Design website here:

https://counter-frames.org/collective-praxis-as-designing-radicality/