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22.03.2012

Uskoro....  počinje MEMEFEST 2012!!!

Uskoro počinje Memefest 2012, Festival Društveno odzivne komunikacije i umetnosti!

Šta se dešava? Svašta. Puno novosti i izazova u 2012. godini je pred nama. Organizacijska ekipa festivala završava poslednje pripreme pre konačnog lansiranja novih sadržina. Pre svega to znači da je zvanični početak ovogodišnjeg festivala i prijateljskog takmičenja planiran za sledeću sedmicu.

Novi festival…

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14.03.2012

Proizvodnja života

Proizvodnja života, odnosno životnih stilova, nije ništa drugo nego vrsta komodifikacije: formalizirovanje i estetizovanje života postaje kategorija robnog dizajniranja. Ako robu mislimo u Marksovoj paradigmi robnog fetišizma, onda život nije ništa drugo do stil, a on je stvar estetike. Estetika je produkt dizajniranja, dizajn je formalizacija, a formalizacija je, tehnički gledeno, komodifikacija…

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13.01.2012

Poster for Occupy London

Poster for Occupy London given away in 1000 copies with issue 2 of the The Occupied Times, the camp Newspaper

Download A3 version here:

http://www.noeldouglas.net/occupyeverywhereA3.pdf

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25.11.2011

A Studio Model

The seed of an idea for an interdisciplinary design practice that goes out of its way to recognise and affirm "goodness" in the world while agitating for needed change. It is a model that values diversity of approach and personality, and attempts to avoid the well trodden patterns of "conservative" and "radical" behaviour.

"Sch/ism": A divided design studio

Pleasure/Provocation
Affirmati…

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04.10.2011

design, illustration, infographix - http://slaveryfootprint.org/

Check out this new web page and app that seems to serve as an awareness raising tool about slavery by indexing your 'slavery footprint'.

http://slaveryfootprint.org/

I'm happy to see that it manages to break out of the usual visual language of slavery campaigns featuring guilt inducing images of downtrodden people and distressed fonts with excessive use of black, red, and orange.

Instea…

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31.08.2011

Design that can impact a society’s stigma on housing

The housing titanic – The big ship in communicating to influence the public stigma of affordable housing.

Australia has an ingrained belief that owning a home is essential to their wellbeing, stability and being a responsibility citizen in our society. This is mainly due to the fact that it has been possible in the past. Yet with our changing world this expectation is fading fast. In its wake …

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13.06.2011

Mergulho nas ideias

Vou tentar condensar pela primeira vez tudo o que tem acontecido por aqui em poucas palavras. Fato: Memefest Brasil encontra Memefest internacional. Participantes, curadores e organizadores, todos juntos por algo em torno de 10 dias num festival em Nijmegen, Holanda. Lá, encontramos participantes do International Media Training - que fariam a cobertura do festival Oddstream [ http://www.oddstream…

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11.05.2011

Mapping socially responsive communication workshop preparation Case study: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Humanites in a self-imposed crisis

Case study: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Humanites in a self-imposed crisis

End of October 2010 this document :
http://www.memefest.org/shared/Faculty_of_Arts_web_design.pdf
was sent to the mailing list of the Board for the defense of Higher education and scientific work by a professor of the Faculty of Arts. The board is a loose civil initiative consisting of academic staff…

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28.04.2011

Demonstrating Relevance: Memefest Exhibition in Berlin

We present in cooperatin with Loesje, Masta and Kulturlabor Trial&Error:

The Memefest exhibition: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Response-Ability” with selected visual communication works and critical content from all over the world.
An event for interactive participation to emancipate, reinterpret and act!

>>> and in German <<<

Die Memefest Ausstellung: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Respon…

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24.04.2011

Workshop: comunicação socialmente sensível

Não foi uma decisão fácil. Muitos participantes enviaram bons trabalhos para o festival desse ano. Dentre esses, os mentores do workshop - Oliver Vodeb, Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber e Jason Grant - tiveram a difícil tarefa de escolher quais seriam convidados para Nijmegen, Holanda, em junho desse ano. Os critérios para participação no workshop de comunicação socialme…