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The Radical Design PodcastGeorge Petelin and Oliver Vodeb: No Intimacy, No Dialogue: Radical Closeness in a Pseudo-Intimate WorldOliver Vodeb talks to George Petelin, author of the chapter on Dialogue in Memfest’s book on Radical Intimacy. They discuss the importance of intimacy for true dialogue to take place and how conditions in contemporary society erode that intimacy or substitute it with forms of pseudo-intimacy. Radical Art and Design face the difficult task of restoring intimate dialogue mediated through technology on a mass scale.Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2026-02-0257 min
The Radical Design PodcastRachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Chrissie Orr and Oliver Vodeb: SeedBroadcast and the Wisdom of the SeedsWhat carries more wisdom than the seed? Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann and Chrissie Orr collaborate on SeedBroadcast, a transdisciplinary art project, raising the culture of agri-culture and putting the seed in the centre of our relations with the world. In this podcast episode they speak with Oliver Vodeb about the different and intimate dimensions of their work learning from the seed and using the knowledge to empower our understanding and our relations.PODCAST CREDITS:Hosted by: Oliver Vodeb/ Memefest. The podcast is a collaboration between Memefest and Intellect publishers.Music: Thanks to Bait...
2025-12-0657 min
The Radical Design PodcastKyle Magee and Oliver Vodeb: How to Participate in the Public SphereIn this conversation, artist and activist Kyle Magee joins Oliver Vodeb to explore what it means to act publicly—through subvertising, image intervention, and sustained political engagement within a media landscape dominated by corporate power. Together, they ask: what does genuine participation in the public sphere look like today? Noone does anti- advertising activism like Kyle Magee. And we at Memefest should know.Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-10-2256 min
The Radical Design PodcastDaniel Marcus and Oliver Vodeb: Capitalism's AddictionsAmerican scholar Daniel Marcus and Memefest curator Oliver Vodeb explore the deep ties between capitalism and addiction from the early 20th century to today. They show how capitalism has not only shaped addiction but has actively relied on it as a strategy for growth.Drawing on their chapter “Capitalism’s Addictions” in the book Radical Intimacies, they explain how addiction became capitalism’s answer to a fundamental contradiction: how to keep selling when people don’t need more stuff. From planned obsolescence during the Great Depression to today’s endless cycle of food, technology, and drugs designed to...
2025-09-1055 min
The Radical Design PodcastSandy Kaltenborn and Oliver Vodeb: Design is Not EnoughWhy is design not enough? Berlin based designer extra-ordinaire Sandy Kaltenborn and Oliver Vodeb discuss design practices which seeks social and political impact and transformation, in relation to the to the constrictions of professional frameworks. The pressing social and political challenges we face these days cannot be understood—let alone addressed—from within the closed logic of traditional design professions or academic routines. If design is to have real political or social impact, it must engage directly from within actual social struggles. That’s where the questions arise, where contradictions become visible, and where intervention is needed. Design that seeks...
2025-08-061h 27
The Radical Design PodcastSam Burch, Kristy-Lee Horswood and Oliver Vodeb: Seeing Country and Radical DesignAboriginal artist and activist Kristy-Lee Horswood and writer, teacher, and activist Sam Burch join Oliver Vodeb to discuss Aboriginal practices of “Seeing Country” and Radical Design. “Country” for Aboriginal people is a deep spiritual and cultural relationship with the land, waters, skies, and all living things—a source of identity, belonging, law, and responsibility.The conversation centres around the chapter Seeing Country: Decolonization, Timeless Intimacies and an Escape from the Tyranny of the Dead Man’s Vision, which Sam Burch contributed to the Radical Intimacies book. It outlines some of the key ideas behind the practice of Seeing Co...
2025-07-011h 17
The Radical Design PodcastKeely Macarow and Oliver Vodeb: Viral LoveIn this conversation Keely Macarow and Oliver Vodeb touch on intimacy during time of the pandemic. The exceptional events of global pandemics teach us a lot about the limits and the potentials of Intimacy. How can we think about intimacy and even radical intimacy through the lessons learned during Covid lock downs or through looking at the HIV pandemic?Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-05-271h 11
The Radical Design PodcastEric Jackson and Oliver Vodeb: Tackling Food Apartheid Through DesignBlack community leader from Baltimore Eric Jackson and Oliver Vodeb speak about radical intimacies and Food Apartheid. The racial structuring of food production, distribution, consumption and promotion of food is deeply rooted in capitalist domination and extraction. The conversation gives deep context on Food Apartheid , explains the situation in Baltimore and the work of Black Yield Institute a Pan African power institution.Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-04-261h 15
The Radical Design PodcastAlexandra Crosby, Ilaria Vanni and Oliver Vodeb: Seed Balls as a Relational Design MethodAustralian scholars Alexandra Crosby and Ilaria Vanni are in conversation with Oliver Vodeb about their ideas on Seed Balls as a relational design method. As designers who apply permaculture principles to broader social and cultural issues they have explored and developed potentials of a DIY method to relate with the planty world and with each other in radical ways.Check the Radical Intimacies, Designing Non- Extractive Relationalities book and read the complete chapter "Seed Balls as Method" here: https://www.memefest.org/publishing/radical-Intimacies/The Memefest Radical Intimacies podcast | www.memefest.org
2025-03-181h 19
DDCAST - Was ist gut? Design, Kommunikation, ArchitekturDDCAST 212 - Nicolas Markwald "FÜR DIE DEBATTE - POUR LE DÈBAT"
Nicolas Markwald (*1978) ist Professor für Kommunikationsdesign und ein Experte in den Bereichen Corporate Identity, Brand Design, digitale Medien und strukturelles Design. Seine gestalterische Arbeit verbindet strategisches Denken mit kreativer Exzellenz und wurde mit über 100 nationalen und internationalen Auszeichnungen gewürdigt.
Seit 2021 lehrt Nicolas Markwald als Professor für Kommunikationsdesign an der Internationalen Hochschule Rhein-Waal. Dabei legt er den Fokus auf praxisnahe und zukunftsorientierte Ausbildung: Er begleitet die nächste Generation von Gestalter*innen dabei, ein ganzheitliches Verständnis von Kommunikation zu entwickeln, kritisches Denken zu fördern und Design als interdisziplinären Möglichkeitsraum zu begreifen. Seine Leh...
2024-12-1938 min
The Radical Design PodcastPatricio Dávila and Oliver Vodeb: The Potentials of Critical VisualisationIn this episode Chilean and Canadian designer and academic Patricio Dávila and Oliver Vodeb discuss what is "critical visualisation" its potentials and also a special project looking at NATO accountability in the death of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea.Check the Radical Intimacies, Designing Non- Extractive Relationalities book and read the complete chapter "Designing Facts: Assembling Survivors, Satellite Data, and Interfaces in the Case Against NATO in the Mediterranean Sea" here: https://www.memefest.org/publishing/radical-Intimacies/The Memefest Radical Intimacies podcast | www.memefest.orgMemefest is an international n...
2024-12-151h 21
The Radical Design PodcastMariano Mussi and Oliver Vodeb: The Emancipatory Design of SufferingArgentinian medical epidemiologist, family physician, and Memefest collaborator Mariano Mussi puts forward the idea of the emancipatory potentialsof suffering. In this episode Marianno Mussi and Oliver Vodeb explore how radical intimacy is the answer to impossibilities, which cause suffering. In a capitalist society the aim is not to cure suffering but to create value. Radical Intimacy manifests in acts of rearranging relationalities of the social organization of care as work.Check the Radical Intimacies, Designing Non- Extractive Relationalities book here: https://www.memefest.org/publishing/radical-Intimacies/The Memefest Radical Intimacies...
2024-11-131h 15
The Radical Design PodcastArturo Escobar and Oliver Vodeb: How can we reclaim participation again?Slovenian/Australian sociologist and extradisciplinary designer Oliver Vodeb and Colombian maverick anthropologist Arturo Escobar discuss the onto-epistemic politicsof participatory design. They discuss the roots of participatory design and show urgent and hopeful frameworks for true participation based on radical interdependence. How can we reclaim participation again?Check the Radical Intimacies, Designing Non- Extractive Relationalities book here: https://www.memefest.org/publishing/radical-Intimacies/The Memefest Radical Intimacies podcast | www.memefest.orgMemefest is an international network engaged in the transformation of social relations through radical design. Our main...
2024-10-081h 01