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.