Interview – post.design

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Questioning, discovery and play form a crucial part of my daily approach.

Re-shaping and Re-writing: Raeder’s ever-changing practice

After we said adeus to designer Manuel Raeder at the Tangle in Helsinki, we reconnected to learn more about his unique approach to project briefs– and their favourite furniture!

Tommi Vasko from Trojan Horse. Photo credit: Valdemar Ren — It’s very important to be able to change between different roles. To be a teacher and share knowledge and plan how to facilitate education in practice one moment, a student or participant in another, and in another take care of catering and cleaning. We too easily get stuck with one role and forget to play with the others.

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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.

Anny Wang and Tim Söderström on a white background — What is vision without touch? And what is taste without visuals?

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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.

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Nature and Nurture: Caring For The Self

After giving the closing talk at the second chapter of the Post Design Tangle in Oslo in September 2022, we checked back in with Sophie Douala to hear more about her reflective approach to her practice and how (and if) she separates herself from her work.

A standard 20-foot shipping container can hold a total of 3,500 shoeboxes, and about the same amount of exhibition concepts.

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Excavating a collaborative practice discovering the individual within the collective

The artist collective Tenthaus, represented by artist Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo and artistic researcher Valentina Martinez, gave a talk at the second chapter of the Post Design Tangle, which took place in Oslo in September 2022. Afterwards we checked in with Jacky and Valentina to learn more about their thoughts on collectivity, collaboration and how to know whether what you are doing is working.

I really wished I was a Microsoft Excel kind of girl, but I just was not.

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Looking Back at Looking Forward

We caught up with Chiara after the Tangle to talk about the intersections between research and creative practice.

Portrait of Kexin Hao. Photo credit: Walther Bølge — When the clap happened at the exact same second it was just so much fun. So yeah, from that moment I figured that it's something enjoyable to the audience and I should just embrace the role as the conductor.

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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.

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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’.

The journey of an A from sans to serif in five steps.

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On type’s right to be legible or illegible, disciplined or quick

After the talk Elias Hanzer gave at the first chapter of the Post Design Tangle in Stockholm in March 2022, we checked in with him for a chat about his practice, design approach and what and who inspires him.

I find the social aspect of work increasingly important and believe that everything that gets discussed aloud in a room with a number of people has the potential to become significantly more relevant due to the different voices that are present.

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From Tallinn to The Tangle

Just after the tangle, we posed graphic designer Laura Pappa some questions on what places, and people and practices help keep her work at the cutting edge.

Sometimes I’m a graphic designer supporting a creative director, or an artist working with a curator, or serving as a party planner. Design is the thread that happens to connect all of these various roles and interests for me.

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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.

"Being ‘creative’ humans, a lot of us are obsessed about turning texture into an image, because an image feels more definitive while texture is rather uncertain and unfinished." - Noam Youngrak Son

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Contemplating a non-anthropocentric ecosystem

Noam Youngrak Son was the first speaker to take the stage at the second chapter of the Post Design Tangle, which took place in Oslo in September 2022. After getting home, we checked back in with Noam to chat about chimera creatures, adaptability and crab meat.