ABOUT
As the latest iteration of POST DESIGN FESTIVAL, this one-day festival of talks and open conversations navigates three thematic perspectives, each reflecting on a key stage of the design lifecycle: BEFORE (research & context), DURING (processes & production), and AFTER (systems & interactions).
DESIGN AFTER DESIGN
Friday, 12 September 2025
Trifolium, Copenhagen
Bådehavnsgade 42, 2450 Copenhagen SV
By bringing together an international selection of progressive designers, we aim to build critical momentum and new creative networks around a future of non-extractive and non-exploitative design practices. Through participatory formats we’ll create space for connection, debate and inspiration, delving into possibilities from subtle shifts to bold visions for the future of design.
Rather than giving answers, it aims to provide questions: So, do you believe in design after design?
SPEAKERS
Silvio Lorusso
Silvio Lorusso is an Italian writer, artist and designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. He published Entreprecariat (Onomatopee) in 2019 and What Design Can’t Do (Set Margins’) in 2023. Lorusso is an assistant professor at the Lusófona University in Lisbon and a tutor at the Information Design department of Design Academy Eindhoven. He holds a Ph.D. in Design Sciences from the Iuav University of Venice.
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Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars is an art collective exploring the intersection of language, politics, and identity across Eurasia. Their printed works blend scholarly rigor with playful humor, often merging archival research with bold visual design. Through publications, posters, editions, merch, and ephemera, they challenge cultural assumptions and provoke dialogue across disciplines.
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ETHOS Lab
Marisa Cohn is an interdisciplinary researcher who combines ethnographic and critical design to explore the chronopolitics of technologies. Her work examines cultural dimensions of infrastructural decay, software maintenance, and technological obsolescence. She is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and a founding co-director of the ETHOS Lab.
ETHOS Lab is a critical feminist methods laboratory dedicated to experimentation at the intersection of digital methods, ethnographic inquiry, and speculative fabulation.
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COLLABOTATORS
IMPACT FESTIVAL
DESIGN AFTER DESIGN is kindly hosted by IMPACT FESTIVAL by Trifolium, a one day festival in Sydhavnen that brings together designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and impact-driven organizations to celebrate sustainable creativity and collective action. Through a curated program of talks, music performances, exhibitions, food, drinks, and workshops, the event offers a unique space for dialogue, inspiration, and connection.
ABOUT THE VENUE
Trifolium is a member-based industrial work collective in Sydhavnen, Copenhagen, featuring professional workshops, office facilities, and a photo studio — all under one roof.
Address: Bådehavnsgade 42, 2450 Copenhagen SV
DESIGN AFTER DESIGN is generously supported by HK Grafisk Kommunikation
SUPeR
Not only is SUPeR the best bookstore in Copenhagen, but a community hub for the English speaking design crowd in town. In their own words:
“SUPeR is a transitional space, in one-all meanings of the word, a space that contains zinging realness, clipity-clop connection and cute frivolities. bookstore in the front, all-you-can-eat creative buffet in the back, gaga for dada, rejecting the name-calling and laughing at ourselves. tears and laughter, the bi-products of being touched in your feelies, are both kept in the heart-pocket as we revolt, ready to stir up stuff.”
At our event, SUPeR will host a pop-up store selling books by and with the speakers as well as a curated selection of critical (design) books.
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