Editorial

Learning To LARP: The Participatory Practice Of Trojan Horse

Following their closing talk of Chapter 3, we reconnected with Tommi Vasko and the Trojan Horse team to reflect on how the collective structures itself and their live-action role-play events.

Heroes and Villains: Performance Art And Social Stigma

After we’d cooled off from her Total Body Workout in Copenhagen, we chatted with designer Kexin Hao on her upcoming work, and how she embodies different characters through performance.

Inspiration and Inheritance: Bijan Berahimi On Growing Up Alongside Your Practice

Graphic designer Bijan Berahimi gave a talk at Chapter 3 in Copenhagen, and we caught up with them afterwards to ask about the inspiration behind their ever-evolving practice.

FISK – Our Oval World

Iranian-American designer Bijan Berahimi is the founder of the creative multispace FISK: a studio, gallery and store located in Portland, Oregon. Since 2009, when FISK began as a graphic design collective while Bijan was studying at California Institute of the Arts, it has become an ongoing project based around culture, community and commerce through the lens of art and design.

Oaza Kolektiv: Designing with/for friends and neighbors

Visual communication designer Maša Poljanec joined us in Copenhagen, representing the design and publishing collective Oaza from Zagreb. Since 2013 the six founders of Oaza have been engaged in a collective practice spanning design, research, curation, publishing and more.

An Ecological View On Digital Communities

Shortly after gathering together in Copenhagen, we invited Anny and Tim from Wang & Söderström for a conversation on finding their place in both physical and digital spaces.

OAZA Kolektiv On Collaboration and Compromise

Speaking on behalf of her 5 other collaborators; Maša Polijanec expands on how OAZA Kolectiv delves into the past by rewriting design history, and reaches into the future with their children’s literature publishing house ‘OAZA & Sons’.

Wang & Söderström: Together in an ecology of technology

From the point of view of their hybrid practice which spans the physical and the digital, Copenhagen-based studio Wang & Söderström reflected upon how the world is changing through technology in their talk at the Tangle.

Studio Safar: Design is Inherently Political

Graphic designer Maya Moumne joined us at the tangle representing Studio Safar – a design and art direction studio based in both Beirut and Montreal. Across seven time zones, Safar (meaning “travel” in Arabic) creates cross-cultural and interlingual visual communication.

On the Complexity Of Community

The physiological human beings we are today are a direct result of forces and environments that were often outside of our ancestors’ control; the climate, diseases, nearby predators and prey, the local flora or geographical landscape in which they built their homes. The sociological beings we are today are a direct result of the process of learning to control such forces.

Sophie Douala: Time / Space / Distance

Sophie is a Berlin based, France raised, Cameroon born artist and creative director specialised in storytelling and creative campaigns. In her practice and life, she seeks to explore the interplay between a formal visual language and its cognitive and emotional affect. Sophie’s aesthetics are both very personal and immediately inviting to the audience, mixing the painful with the colorful, and politics with beauty. In her lecture we learn more about how and why Sophie Douala inserts herself in her complex and immersive work.