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.
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.
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.
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’.
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: 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.
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.