The Radical Design Podcast is a new special monthly show re-thinking the radical potentials of design. We aim to understand the world better through deep conversations with people who are doing significant things. Dive into design beyond the conventional. Hosted by Oliver Vodeb, the podcast explores how design intersects with social change, politics, and radical thought. Each episode features conversations with thinkers, activists, and creators who challenge norms, reimagine systems, and push the boundaries of what design can do.
We are interested in design emerging in the undercurrents, kicking capitalism while its down. Our first series, Radical Intimacies, features dialogues with contributors to the book Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities, exploring themes of dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. These conversations highlight design operating beyond dominant, extractive paradigms—aimed at imagining and building new worlds and social relations. Find the book here.
From the aesthetics of resistance to strategies of radical imagination, the podcast investigates the ideas shaping design as a tool for transformation.
About Memefest:
Memefest is an international network interested in transforming social relations through radical design. Independent and collaborative, it works with universities, practitioners, and social movements to create spaces for deep exchange in the undercurrents.
Credits:
Hosted by Oliver Vodeb / Memefest
Co-production with Intellect Publishers
Music by Bait: https://bait2.bandcamp.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Radical Design Podcast is a new special monthly show re-thinking the radical potentials of design. We aim to understand the world better through deep conversations with people who are doing significant things. Dive into design beyond the conventional. Hosted by Oliver Vodeb, the podcast explores how design intersects with social change, politics, and radical thought. Each episode features conversations with thinkers, activists, and creators who challenge norms, reimagine systems, and push the boundaries of what design can do.
We are interested in design emerging in the undercurrents, kicking capitalism while its down. Our first series, Radical Intimacies, features dialogues with contributors to the book Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities, exploring themes of dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. These conversations highlight design operating beyond dominant, extractive paradigms—aimed at imagining and building new worlds and social relations. Find the book here.
From the aesthetics of resistance to strategies of radical imagination, the podcast investigates the ideas shaping design as a tool for transformation.
About Memefest:
Memefest is an international network interested in transforming social relations through radical design. Independent and collaborative, it works with universities, practitioners, and social movements to create spaces for deep exchange in the undercurrents.
Credits:
Hosted by Oliver Vodeb / Memefest
Co-production with Intellect Publishers
Music by Bait: https://bait2.bandcamp.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Slovenian/Australian sociologist and extradisciplinary designer Oliver Vodeb and Colombian maverick anthropologist Arturo Escobar discuss the onto-epistemic politics
of 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.org
Memefest is an international network engaged in the transformation of social relations through radical design. Our main focus is the decolonisation of knowledge and the public sphere + social and environmental change. We integrate education, publishing, research, and the organization of events, as well as the facilitation and production of various media and interventions in the public sphere. Memefest is independent and operates in collaboration with universities, practitioners and social movements. Our approach counters the management of pedagogy, channels knowledge from different disciplines and connects the university with critical, marginal and counter-cultural positions. We create impossible spaces for deep exchange in the undercurrents.
CREDITS:
Hosted by: Oliver Vodeb/ Memefest
Music: Bait: two best friends meeting seasonally in bucolic surrounds to generate improvised music. Property Law recognises the Indigenous peoples of the world's relationship to land.
As in, "we don't own the land. The land owns us." Each of us is only passing through. Empires, Epochs come & go, but the spirit of the land persists.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.