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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 23th birthday!)

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Memefest's Podcast Series: Radical Intimacies

Memefest Radical Design is a new special monthly podcast re-thinking the radical potentials of design. Our first series: Radical Intimacies features deep dialogues in non -extractive design around ideas presented in the book Radical Intimacies, Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities.

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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 Radical Design Podcast is continuing, and we are inviting you to collaborate with us
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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Interventions

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

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Publishing

Check out our books * Radical knowledge beautifully designed *

Food Democracy

In a world where privatization and capitalism dominate the global economy, this book asks how to make socially responsive communication, design and art that counters the role of the food industry as a machine of consumption. Four years in making and involving more than 200 people in this extradisciplinary research process, the unique book includes ground-breaking writing from leading international scholars, artists and activists, along with visual and written examples for practical alternatives to and interventions into the dominant corporate forms of the current food system from around the world curated by the Memefest Festival.

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