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18.03.2018
the project
Occupy the kitchen! is a food artivism project where contemporary practices that are connected to art and economics are explored through food. This activity – of research and production – is carried out through a transdisciplinary approach and an activist attitude. What interests us is examining the exchanges, cross references and the osmotic and/or conflictual relationships bet…
02.02.2018
Hello all! I find this super meaningful and I am seeking your support. I have been participating in the Community Harvest project twice and was both times blown away by the magic created by bringing together such diverse communities, people of such different backgrounds and with such incredible life stories. The Community Harvest Project does the best job, I have ever seen in finding meaningful, …
19.01.2018
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/…
17.01.2018
I'm hoping to interest members in my new book TINKERING. It's a journalistic and scholarly investigation into the political implications of material culture. It spans across sociology, art & technology history, anthropology and politics.
TINKERING profiles Australian DIY activisim and the political and economic concerns of home-based production and labour. Here's an extract: http://www.smh.com…
15.12.2017
Three weeks ago I did this live Webinar with Online School of Food Design founder Francesca Zampollo. We discussed the Food Democracy book and food design. Here it is in full recorded. Check it out. Here also the link to the book: http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
20.11.2017
Dear Friends, join us for the FOOD DEMOCRACY live Webinar where I will be together with Franceska Francesca Zampollo discussing the latest book, Food Democracy, Critical Lessons in Communication, Design and Art on November 22 7 PM GMT+ 1.
Check more about the book here: http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
Find link for the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8D1G4gwwVA.
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10.04.2017
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.
19.03.2017
ZONA FRANCA | OCCUPY THE KITCHEN! |
Foodrioters Franca Formenti, Evelyn Leveghi and Francesca Sironi are looking performers to show their work in “Zona Franca” in Varese- Italy.
“Occupy the kitchen!” is a ZONA FRANCA project, a series of events where artists, agronomists, activists, farmers, chefs, intellectuals, horticulturalists and nutritionists talk about their research and their expe…
25.02.2017
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 …
25.11.2016
We are very excited to announce this years Memefest friendly competition results. As each year Memefest has invited the global community to engage with our special theme- this year it was PLEASURE.
Pleasure is central to our lives and communication/design and art play a major role in our relationship to it. Pleasure is an episodic phenomenon. As we all learn early on it does never really last …