9 months, 3 weeks ago
This is super: between 1st- 31st October 2020 anyone can get 30% off the Food Democracy book online using the code FAN30 at the checkout!!
https://intellectbooks.com/food-democracy
9 months, 3 weeks ago
David Graeber was connected to Memefest mostly via his incredible work on Debt.
This is an invitation to come together across the world for a memorial carnival in the spirit of the one and only, David Graeber, who just left us so suddenly and unexpectedly. The invitation emerges from his wife Nika and a handful of his friends.
https://davidgraeber.industries/memorial-carnival-eng
1 year ago
Here is the sound file of the dialogue between Arturo Escobar and I at the recent Participatory design conference at the Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia. It was such a pleasure and honor to talk to Arturo but also pure joy to be connected again with Colombia again and in especially in this a way!!
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The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar
Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar have in this special dialogue, Participatory Design Conference at the 2020 Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, looked into the radical potential of participation and design, especially in relation to knowledge. Taking a close look at the relations between the academy, practitioners and social movements, the dialogue focused on the politics of the possible, namely, a reality open for cohabitation of different worlds by design.
The conversation examined the potential for epistemic pluralism and participatory epistemologies to foster radical intimacy with each other and the earth. Looking at the growing field of critical design, Vodeb and Escobar discussed capitalism’s predatory strategies and design's role in it, while suggesting that another design, and another possible, are possible.
More on Arturo Escobar here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Esco…_(anthropologist)
More on Oliver Vodeb here: memefest.org/en/about/who_we_are_oliver_vodeb/
1 year, 2 months ago
You can join now our Memefest channel via the Telegram app:
https://t.me/memefestnetwork
oliver
commented on Memefest's blogpost CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS to new Memefest book RADICAL INTIMACIES: Extradisciplinary Investigations in Making Things Public
1 year, 2 months ago
"What kind of problem succumbs to domination and control? The kind caused by something from the outsi..."
1 year, 2 months ago
I will be posting three lectures on comradeship by Jodi Dean in the coming weeks. Here is the first one:
Learning about comradeship with Jodi Dean: Class 1
oliver
commented on Memefest's blogpost Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?
1 year, 3 months ago
"Hi Thomas, really nice to hear from you!
I know what you mean. We left the post online for a day an..."
oliver
commented on stephen_designer's blogpost Your 20 Sources and 20 People for this Year 2020
1 year, 3 months ago
"I like this initiative a lot Stephen. Somehow I just got the opportunity to look into it now. Same q..."
1 year, 5 months ago
The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting
Edited by: Alex Wardrop and Deborah Withers
2014
There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.
We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care.
http://hammeronpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PHA_Final.pdf
1 year, 5 months ago
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
1 year, 7 months ago
Merry Christmas everyone! As the holidays center so much around food, family and community we'd like to give you a little gift.
Produced by Goucher student Kylie Miller, hosted by Kylie Miller and Tashi McQueen, Featuring Eric Jackson and Floyd Godsey this podcast presents the amazing and inspiring work on Food Apartheid our brothers and sisters at the Black Yield Institute in Baltimore are doing.
The podcast is one of the many outcomes of Baltimore's Food Apartheid, a collaboration between Goucher College, Black Yield Institute and Memefest, which happened in November in Baltimore.
https://goucherstudentradio.com/2019/12/03/baltimores-food-apartheid-a-podcast-about-black-yield-institute/
1 year, 7 months ago
Montreal friends, come and join us this coming Wednesday:
Members of the Memefest Network were recently in Baltimore, USA working with the Black Yield Institute and students at Goucher College tackling the subject of Baltimore's Food Apartheid. Food Democracy/Food Sovereignty has been a focus of Memefest's work over the last few years and it was a special opportunity for us to work with Black Yield, an amazing community organisation based out of Cherry Hill who seek to "Cultivate Self-Determination Through Black Land & Food Sovereignty".
Memefest's Oliver Vodeb and Vida Voncina, who will be visiting Montreal, alongside Kevin Lo (LOKI/Memefest) are interested in presenting a public debrief and discussion on the work done with BYI and Goucher, as well as the Memefest Network and project more broadly. We invite those interested in design and media activism, radical pedagogy, food justice (and more!) to join us for a casual "salon" at LOKI's studio.
See more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/571852240242300/
--Daniel
1 year, 8 months ago
The Hong Kong protests are incredibly significant for many reasons. Not only are they exceptional as people are protesting more than six months, it is also the tactics that the protesters use that are highly sophisticated.
Here is a good article about the many subversive cultures emerging from the HK uprisings:
https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITIONS-TACTICS/0100B0790FL/index.html
1 year, 8 months ago
The Hong Kong protests are incredibly significant for many reasons. Not only are they exceptional as people are protesting more than six months, it is also the tactics that the protesters use that are highly sophisticated.
Here is a good article about the many subversive cultures emerging from the HK uprisings:
https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITIONS-TACTICS/0100B0790FL/index.html
lokidesign
commented on Memefest's blogpost Baltimore’s Food Apartheid: A pre-workshop preparation session
1 year, 8 months ago
"Very excited to meet you all very soon. Last weekend I participated in an event with the East Bay Pe..."
oliver
commented on Memefest's blogpost Baltimore’s Food Apartheid: A pre-workshop preparation session
1 year, 8 months ago
"As we are working a lot with photographers here is an article on Afrapix, a radical photo collective..."
oliver
commented on Memefest's blogpost Baltimore’s Food Apartheid: A pre-workshop preparation session
1 year, 8 months ago
"Here are some great links sent to me by Pamela from Goucher, they are very useful resources, so I am..."
oliver
commented on Memefest's blogpost Baltimore’s Food Apartheid: A pre-workshop preparation session
1 year, 8 months ago
"Here the latest on Black Yield Institute, published by Civil Eats:
https://tinyurl.com/y2ephb4c..."
oliver
commented on Memefest's blogpost Baltimore’s Food Apartheid: A pre-workshop preparation session
1 year, 8 months ago
"Hello Pamela @mxpjthompson, thanks for sharing about the work you have been doing with your students..."
Username
Sttwn
Name
Scott Townsend
Website
http://www.imaginarycountry.org/
Description
Additional information on the work proposed;
Most of the work was developed in and for areas in conflict. There are several examples:
I. (earlier work: http://www.imaginarycountry.org/www_09/research.html
-and "Borderline Series")
An urban neighborhood in the United States with an influx of people from Central and South America in conflict with a traditional European/American population. The pieces were about bringing some kind of reflection and conciliation with both sides when it was exhibited, with other programming from community leaders from both sides.
II. "Your Imaginary Country: the Berlin Wall and the Southwest Border Initiative” 2008 and 2010. Another project tied together two parts of the globe that have a history with a "Wall"-
http://www.imaginarycountry.org/www_09/research.html
The Imaginary Country project was shown in Berlin and in the Southwest US- and linked through the web so that answers from both places could be shown together from the audiences. It developed stories and audience based questions about political and economic exclusion of people from each country at a particular time and place- comparing the German “Wall” with the US "wall:" the Strategic Border Initiative, which literally is an update on the Berlin Wall physically. Audience answers became part of the project- both sides were appalled that a) something like this was happening once again in a "democracy," (the Berlin audience) while the U.S. audience understood the comparison (though it was broken down in terms of what motivates the idea of a "wall") since so much of U.S. ideology is about the iconography of the end of "communism" in Europe.
III. The projects tend to elicit audience responses both in the work (answers from the audience become part of the work electronically) that fall into all of the love/conflict/imagination categories in your proposal call.
see documentation at:
http://www.imaginarycountry.org/www_09/research.html
-and the Visual Communication project (print based - Sage Publishers in the U.K)
In the projects that I develop, people talk about imagining what their new community could be like- they evidence conflict between themselves and the reality- (often about conflicts between not only the new community that they live in, but also conflicts with their family and expectations of being fully from both cultures) The conflicts of course are often induced from governments and economies in conflict- such as the current EU economic situation and smaller countries (see the project "Marriage of Convenience"
done with collaborators in Lithuania in 09-
http://www.imaginarycountry.org/www_09/research.html)
IV. Finally- my most recent work tries to raise issues about how we imagine relationships based on body metaphor- see www.imaginarycountry.org/ch_2011
and the interactive animation "pulse" in particular. This was done in a major corporate city in the United States- which is the second largest banking center in the U.S. (behind NYC).
Please feel free to get back in touch- the memefest project is something if possible I would greatly like to participate in.
1 year ago
More on Arturo Escobar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)