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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.
Memefest operates between academia, professional practice and marginal social positions. Imagine we are a global network of non sell-out 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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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!
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Memefest
09.10.2026
Design (Research) as Radical Social Practice
This lecture by Oliver Vodeb is taken from Counter-Framing Design seminar held at Loughborough University London. It presents Design (Research) as Radical Social Practice, which is also published in the book Radical Intimacies, Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities. This particular talk speaks about some of the key concepts behind our work at Memefest and positions design as research and radic…
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…
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Capitalism Kills Love (redux)
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HOUR BANK
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Debt./2012
Spot the Difference
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Food Democracy/2013
Consumed
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Food Democracy/2013
Welcome to Monsanto
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The Seed Swatches
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The Perfect Tomato
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Interventions
Memefest Interventions are global manifestations of direct action: education, investigation and social engagement.
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InDEBTed to Intervene
This highly original book looks at debt as an instrument for social control and investigates the connections between debt, design, art and communication. Aiming not just to advance scholarship, but to push ahead real change in the world, the book offers analytical insights and conceptual apparatuses, as well as practical tools and radical inspirations. A powerful analysis of a concept that has become ever more central to everyday society, InDEBTed to Intervene is essential reading for scholars and citizens alike. It is a most beautifully designed political book and we have worked hard to keep its price low.
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