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New Podcast Series Alert!

Get ready for deep dives, radical ideas, and mind-bending conversations! We’re announcing that we work on a new podcast series featuring our book Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities. We aim to break down barriers, rethink design through insightful conversations with Oliver Vodeb and the amazing minds who contributed to this amazing and beau…

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We are delighted to announce the Melbourne launch of our new book Radical Intimacies, Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities (Intellect). The book will be launched in a special series of talks and conversations in collaboration with the Melbourne Free University in November and December. Read more about the talks and find out the dates below.

See more about the book here: http://www.memefes…

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We are very excited to announce that we are working on our next book in the Memefest "Interventions" book series in partnership between Memefest and Intellect Books UK, Publishers of Original Thinking! http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS to the book RADICAL INTIMACIES: Extradisciplinary Investigations in Making Things Publ…

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Publishing

The Situationists had an immense influence on Memefest from its very beginnings in 2002. The concepts of détournement and dérive played a big role in developing our own tactics and are still part of Memefest arsenal of tools when we develop public interventions or teach about them.

One of the very important tactics Memefest used is publishing, which we see as a intervention into the public sp…

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activism community Publishing

Food democracy is sold out and is now being reprinted. The only change will be a slightly thicker cover. Thinking of the undisciplining and extradisciplinary nature of our intellectual cullture, methodology, pedagogy, our activist history and not at least the very publishing culture behind this book we like to think of this as a great achievement. This would not be possible without the deep colla…

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The fine people at RMIT are together with @frasermuggeridgestudio organizing this conference at RMIT Barcelona titled The Anatomy of the Book. It really is great staff, and if you have a chance, go and participate- the conference is free! Check more here on the web site:

RMIT Europe, Barcelona
Monday 26 November

A free one-day conference dissecting the contemporary book from a range of pe…

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design Publishing

Here is full info on the book:

Food Democracy, Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and art. Edited, curated and written by Oliver Vodeb, Published by Intellect Books, Uk

We worked hard to keep the price of the book low. BUY THE BOOK HERE OR HERE- check what works better for you.

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What prompted you to create Food Democracy?

I am mostly developing research around w…

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Issue #5 of The Equal Standard is out now! The Equal Standard Broadzine is Australia’s latest free independent press publication, bringing you the world in the raw. We turn the spotlight on life as we know it to inform, intrigue and provoke. From politics to art and everything in-between – we hope we entertain you and maybe, just maybe, tune you into a new standard.

The Equal Standard is produ…

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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/

oliver

art communication design Publishing

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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