Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities

Our new and fresh book!!!! YOU CAN BUY THE BOOK HERE*
Our new and fresh book!!!! YOU CAN BUY THE BOOK HERE*
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This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis.

An extradisciplinary investigation into the radical potentials of design by the global Memefest network.


This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Vodeb’s written and curated chapters engage radical intimacies with design and connects it with media, communication, and art. 


The book presents the concept of “Radical intimacies”, which was developed as part of Memefest’s extradisciplinary investigations. It implies a relational way of designing that creates closeness to the world, which works towards the decolonization of knowledge and of the public sphere. The closeness is political as it involves qualities that constitute and enable an alternative and opposition to the extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism.


Radical Intimacies connects frameworks on (de)colonization with the work of Memefest, a global network of people interested in social change through radical design. Bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world, the collection connects universities, adventorous practitioners, and social movements. This book explores design as a central domain of thought and action concerned with the meaning and production of sociocultural life. Contributors are interested in design that operates outside the dominant social orders, narrow disciplines and extractive paradigms and imagines and builds new worlds and social relations.


Content warning: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders are advised that the following publication contains the words & images of deceased persons.


Read the Introduction + table of contents HERE.


Read a testimonial about the Radical Intimacies event here.


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Design (Research) as Radical Social Practice lecture from Counter-Framing Design seminar. The lecture presents the chapter with the same title, which is published in the book.


Read the Introduction + table of contents HERE.


BUY THE BOOK at Intellect HERE.


or at Amazon here.

Testimonials

"A diverse collection of chapters ranging from the descriptive and matter-of-fact to the personal and anecdotal, thought-provoking interviews to captivating scholarly writings, Radical Intimacies is essential reading for academics, artists and activists interested in the crossover between design, arts and social change."

Stephen Duncombe

New York University

"Maybe we can think about power, and ‘designing with’ as opposed to ‘designing for,’ and designing with in contexts of power, and designing with in terms of maintaining and healing and mending and repairing the web of relations that make up the bodies, places, landscapes, and communities in which we live, that we are and inhabit, that we are destroying right and left."

Arturo Escobar

Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

"So particularly, with the onslaught of climate change coming it does surprise me. I’m just like, why are we not more openly dissenting to what’s happening? Because it’s going to destroy everything, and we should be defending it with everything we have."

Kyle Magee

anti-advertising activist, Melbourne