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09.10.2026
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…
16.08.2025
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…
31.10.2024
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/
19.08.2024
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…
08.11.2023
We are delighted to announce the Melbourne launch of our new book Radical Intimacies, Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities (Intellect). The book will be launched in a special series of talks and conversations in collaboration with the Melbourne Free University in November and December. Read more about the talks and find out the dates below.
See more about the book here: http://www.memefes…
30.05.2021
Memefest has been commissioned to design the official poster for Festival de la Imagen in Manizales Colombia. It is the 20th anniversary of the festival with which Memefest has a long standing and close relation. The topic of the festival is Inter/Species and the poster depicts managerial, bureaucratic, rationalist design language as manifested in everyday forms (charts, Xls sheets etc). This lan…
13.06.2020
We are excited to announce a special dialogue between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar at the Festival de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia. The dialogue will happen online via Zoom infront of the festival audience @ 2.30 pm Tuesday, June 16th, Manizales time.
The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar
Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar…