OK, still testing this. Seems like this channel is "read only", thats how Telegram has set things up. But I opened a Memefest "Group" and there anyone can post, comment etc. Here is the link: t.me/memefestgroup
I am looking forward to this one coming up on Tuesday. The festival is still working on their web site but I was told that the full program will be published today (Sunday, Colombian time). I think that Arturo is perhaps the most relevant voice in Design today. If you would like us to consider a particular question that you might have in our session, you are welcome to post your question here. Check this link for more info: http://memefest.org/en/memeblog/2020/06/oliver-vodeb-and-arturo-escobar-in-dialogue/
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Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar in Dialogue | Memeblog @ Memefest
We are excited to announce a special dialogue between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar at the Festival de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia. The dialogue will happen online via Zoom infront of the festival audience.
The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory…
The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory…
Here are all the papers from the Participatory Design conference at the Festival de la Imagen, Manizales. Vol 2
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3384772
Vol 1
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3385010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3384772
Vol 1
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3385010
Just came across this impressive Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Radical resource list. It is massive and looks excelent for the bit I could check out. In case you are interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Liu5aTBEdqqqntfOyAgK9IH5sfMwM4ZE1wlSE5IJUw/edit
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A Radical Library
A RADICAL LIBRARY LIST OF PDF BOOKS / TEXTS / PODCASTS / ARTICLES / AUDIOBOOKS If you are in a position to buy any of these books and support the authors please do so THE END OF POLICING PODCAST Alex Vitale - The End of Policing (In Conversation)…
Here is a new conversation with Eric Jackson from Black Yeld Institute- Memefest’s friends and collaborators with whom we worked in Baltimore on food apparthied: https://revistaperiferias.org/en/materia/black-self-determination-drawn-from-our-roots/
Revista Periferias
Black Self-determination Drawn From Our Roots - Revista Periferias
It may surprise some of our readers to learn that issues of urban food access in the United States long predate the onset of Covid-19. Entire neighborhoods, often termed “food deserts,” stand bereft of grocery stores and markets, featuring only fast food…
Very sad news, David Graeber died. He was influential to our work too, our 2012 edition of Memefest on Debt was directly influenced by his work on the topic and this beautiful book that came our later is a direct reflection on this intellectual relation too: http://www.memefest.org/en/indebtedtointervene/ Here is a post on Graeber including a video he published talking about his latest projects just few days ago. It is really sad to loose somebody like him. https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/david-graeber/
Heavy.com
David Graeber Dead: Anthropologist & Anti-Capitalist Thinker Behind ‘We Are the 99%’ Slogan Dies at 59
David Graeber, the anthropologist who was influential in the Occupy Wall Street movement and is believed to have coined the phrase "We are the 99%," has died at age 59.
Here is the amazing Cherry Hill Food Coop in Baltimore. Memefest was in Baltimore last year and worked with Black Yield Institute on countering Food Apartheid and design support for the food coop was one of the works we did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcQGJf3jV4&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcQGJf3jV4&feature=youtu.be
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Cherry Hill Food Co-op Promotional Video
Black Yield Institute is anchoring the organizing of a cooperatively-owned grocery store in our community in Cherry Hill, in South Baltimore. We have been engaged in developing leadership, popular political education, food distribution and overall engagement…