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19.01.2018
Food/Media/Crisis:
Memefest Los Angeles sessions
Feb 9-10, 2018
Pomona College LA
A special two-day workshop / critical discussion facilitated by Memefest on the intersections of Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics.
This workshop will examine the corporate takeover of our food by connecting Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics. Food/…
15.12.2017
Three weeks ago I did this live Webinar with Online School of Food Design founder Francesca Zampollo. We discussed the Food Democracy book and food design. Here it is in full recorded. Check it out. Here also the link to the book: http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
20.11.2017
Dear Friends, join us for the FOOD DEMOCRACY live Webinar where I will be together with Franceska Francesca Zampollo discussing the latest book, Food Democracy, Critical Lessons in Communication, Design and Art on November 22 7 PM GMT+ 1.
Check more about the book here: http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
Find link for the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8D1G4gwwVA.
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10.04.2017
The Second International Swinburne Memefest Extradisciplinary Symposium, Workshop/ Interventions event was held from November 21-28th at Swinburne University in Melbourne. This was the fourth Memefest event held in Australia, (check links to previous events at bottom of this post) and it continued to implement the unique Memefest approach to education, research and public engagement.
25.02.2017
What we see as the outward visual denotation of urban infrastructure is not always connected directly to what it might connote as a symbol, an index, or as an embodiment of policy, need, capital and spatial practice. The objective of this new research and scholarship is to bring to light the disjunctions and contradictions in the visual coherence of our urban infrastructure, and to reveal how we …
18.09.2016
11.06.2016
lip augmentation trend
02.06.2016
El placer de ver la colaboración en el control de poblaciones de caninos sin hogar, donde también se ve beneficiada la población desde el punto de vista de la sanidad y la seguridad.
11.06.2015
Memefest Workshop: Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Instituto Superior de Disegno, Havana, June 19-25.
Mentors:
Dr George Petelin (Griffith University, Queensland College of Art & Memefest)
Dr Oliver Vodeb (Swinburne University of Technology & Memefest)
Participants: Approx. 20
The five day workshop is aimed at students, academics and profe…