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.
Why 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 to be transformative must in this sense understand itself as a practice shaped by conflict—not as a response to self-contained problems, but as a contribution to real-world struggles.
Two friends engaged in radical design for decades reflect on the past and investigate what matters in design today.
Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.