Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Afraid Ain't Me

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Death Final

The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar

Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar have in this special dialogue at the Participatory Design Conference at the 2020 Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, looked into the radical potential of participation and design, especially in relation to knowledge. Taking a close look at the relations between the academy, practitioners and social movements, the dialogue focused on the politics of the possible, namely, a reality open for cohabitation of different worlds by design. 

The conversation examined the potential for epistemic pluralism and participatory epistemologies to foster radical intimacy with each other and the earth. Looking at the growing field of critical design, Vodeb and Escobar  discussed capitalism’s predatory strategies and design's role in it, while suggesting that another design, and another possible, are possible.

More on Arturo Escobar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)

More on Oliver Vodeb here: http://memefest.org/en/about/who_we_are_oliver_vodeb/

A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar

Memefest radio ad Serbia 2010

A Conversation between subvertiser Kyle Magee and Memefest founder Oliver Vodeb

The conversations are never that good with cops, you know...

Radical Design+ Communication. Critical pedagogy, autonomous knowledge, pirate research, subversive communities. Network, workshops, public interventions, publishing. Memefest web site: www.memefest.org

Memefest

Popular tracks