Memefest operates between academia, community and professional practice and marginal 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 (Happy 22th birthday!)

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Arturo Escobar and Oliver Vodeb: How can we reclaim participation again?

Oliver Vodeb and Colombian maverick anthropologist Arturo Escobar discuss the nature and politics of participatory design. They show urgent and hopeful potentials for true participation based on radical interdependence. How can we reclaim participation again?

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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

31.10.2024

spanish gate

oil on canvas

Monkey`s jump
Memefest

31.10.2024

Monkey`s jump

oil on canvas

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Interventions

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

Interventions

Publishing

Check out our books * Radical knowledge beautifully designed *

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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