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31.10.2024
Our first podcast in the Radical Intimacies series is published! :)
Arturo Escobar and I discuss about participatory design and how and why it has historically been loosing its initial political and radical dimensions, but also we discuss of course how to radicalize participatory design in current times.
Check it out here: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/
18.03.2018
the project
Occupy the kitchen! is a food artivism project where contemporary practices that are connected to art and economics are explored through food. This activity – of research and production – is carried out through a transdisciplinary approach and an activist attitude. What interests us is examining the exchanges, cross references and the osmotic and/or conflictual relationships bet…
02.02.2018
Hello all! I find this super meaningful and I am seeking your support. I have been participating in the Community Harvest project twice and was both times blown away by the magic created by bringing together such diverse communities, people of such different backgrounds and with such incredible life stories. The Community Harvest Project does the best job, I have ever seen in finding meaningful, …
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.
10.05.2016
The matter is a new nascent social network: a desktop of proposition, confrontation and deliberation that could be used both to make seriously advance democracy and simply to have fun. Tribes of friends, associations, working équipes, condominiums, sports teams, political movements and parties, governments and families: all these people often face important or mundane turning points and need a co…
17.12.2014
If worries about our impending social and environmental apocalypse threaten to ruin your holidays, below are some thoughts from my upcoming book that might provide some hope. Season’s Greetings!
Is our planet screwed? Are we going to run our civilization into the ground, as many doomsayers claim?
When you look at the cold figures science provides us, they are certainly terrifying. The combi…
03.12.2014
In contemporary Australia the words ‘country’, ‘decolonisation’, ‘family’ and ‘law’ are loaded with meanings that differ greatly from person to person across this nation’s Aboriginal and migrant communities.
As part of Memefest's Radical Intimacies, a small group of us got together a few weeks ago and developed a work that explored this diversity while challenging our understanding of ourselv…
25.09.2014
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21.07.2014
