Interview – post.design

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[1] POST is a platform working to challenge the place of visual culture and communication in society while addressing the ethics of design, the politics of image-making, and the unknowns of our creative futures. [CLOSE]

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[2] "Designing is not solving but further entangling. Extending the assertion that solutions are weak positions, needs and problems are not things to be eliminated but rather potentials to be recombined." - Medium Design: Knowing how to work on the world by Keller Easterling. [CLOSE]

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[3] This next iteration of Post Design Festival takes us deep into the theme of “entanglement,” where we’ll unravel the intersections, interconnections, and invisible strings that give shape to our visual and political surroundings. [CLOSE]

is a design festival spanning two years, four locations

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[4] Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland [CLOSE]

, and a patchworked, online hub

All Community Essay Interview Power Practice Reportage Self Talk Workshop

Questioning, discovery and play form a crucial part of my daily approach.
Interview Power
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!
I really wished I was a Microsoft Excel kind of girl, but I just was not.
Interview Power
Looking Back at Looking Forward
We caught up with Chiara after the Tangle to talk about the intersections between research and creative practice.
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.
Interview Power
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.
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.
Community Interview
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.
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.
Community Interview
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.
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.
Community Interview
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 is designing-researching-publishing-curating-teaching-writing-studying-…, and is inviting you to their home-laboratory-workshop-library-garden…
Community Interview
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’.
What is vision without touch? And what is taste without visuals?
Community Interview
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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Interview Self
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.
Interview Self
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.
"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
Interview Self
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.
The journey of an A from sans to serif in five steps.
Interview Practice
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.

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