Memefest operates between academia, community and professional practice and marginal, often radical social positions. Imagine we are a global network of critical academics, curious students, adventurous professionals, passionate activists, gifted amateurs and close friends. //Radical design +extradisciplinary praxis. Social and environmental justice +decolonisation of knowledge and the public sphere. *Since 2002

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Listen to Memefest's RADICAL DESIGN Podcast

Memefest Radical Design is a new special monthly podcast re-thinking the radical potentials of design. Design, we argue, is - for the better or for worse- at the center of our lives and our relations with the world. While design, at least in its professional form, is predominantly a tool of capitalisms strategies for extraction, we are interested in design emerging in the undercurrents, kicking capitalism while its down.

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Memefest Saigon

We discovered the relational City and looked at the construction of space through food in beautiful Saigon. Also, it was a celebration of 20 years of Memefest!

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New Book: Radical Intimacies

Our new and fresh book!! An investigation into the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Check it out!

News / Conversations

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Memefest

16.08.2025

Memefest Radical Design Podcast is continuing, and we are inviting you to collaborate with us

Dear all,
We started the Memefest Podcast series as a way to further engage with our much-loved book Radical intimacies. The Podcast format offers us an opportunity to present our thinking and ideas to a wider and more diverse audience. Engaging in deep conversations gives us sometimes also an opportunity to develop our ideas even further.

After a few episodes we felt that there is a lot of…

oliver

Memefest

31.10.2024

spanish gate

oil on canvas

ize

art illustration

Friendly competition

Showroom

PROJECTION MAIL

surreaLies

Love Conflict Imagination/2010-2011

Welcome to Pine Point

pshoebri

Love Conflict Imagination/2010-2011

Read Between the Lines

Emma

Debt./2012

Change your mind. Change our world.

Dmang8

Debt./2012

Tunnel Vision

aarongillett

Debt./2012

Consumed

susanagraph

Food Democracy/2013

Pick Me

zyrannosaur

Food Democracy/2013

Land Grab - The Game

katerpillar

Food Democracy/2013

FUCK BORDERS FREE FESTIVAL

alis23

Pleasure/2016

Aura

alanhill

Pleasure/2016

Interventions

Memefest Interventions are global manifestations of direct action: education, investigation and social engagement.

2022

Relational City: The Construction of Space Through Food, Saigon

2015

Memefest Havana!

2014

Radical Intimacies: Dialogue in Our Times, Melbourne

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Publishing

Check out our books * Radical knowledge beautifully designed *

Love: Conflict: Imagination

This is a special book. A lovingly designed publication in between a zine and a small book presents the best works from our 2010 Memefest festival. Love: Conflict: Imagination was the theme, the provocation framed around two Flaming Lips songs: the Yeah Yeah Yeah song and I Can Be a Frog. The contributions to this publication are particularly inspired, uplifting and colorful.