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!
Looking Back at Looking Forward
We caught up with Chiara after the Tangle to talk about the intersections between research and creative practice.
Chiara Di Leone – Power Play
Kicking off the Helsinki Tangle was researcher and writer Chiara Di Leone, whose talk “Power Play” launched us straight into our theme by examining the techno-economic power structures at play in climate forecasting.
Ryan Waller – You can get with this, or you can get with that
Control was a theme that threaded through Ryan’s talk at the Tangle, where he described that exercising control is often the foundation of power, and how having a certain degree of control over your creative practice can help with forging your own direction.
Laura Pappa – What’s work?
As a graphic designer and typographer fascinated with the urban landscape, Laura Pappa’s work operates at the intersection of place and image. In her talk in Helsinki, Pappa explored her mechanisms of staying engaged in creative practice over time.
Manuel Raeder — BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE
Studio Manuel Raeder is an interdisciplinary design studio exploring the boundaries between exhibitions, ephemera, books, type design, editing, publishing, textile and furniture design. Manuel is joining us from Berlin to expand on the studios’ deep involvement in editorial and spatial narratives, as well as its interest in the meaning of books within space, the archive and the future of libraries.
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.
Noura Tafeche — On the threshold of UwU horror
Noura Tafeche is an Italian-Palestinian visual artist and independent researcher. Through a lecture performance at the Tangle, she introduced her research project “Kawayoku Inception” on the visual representation of violence in internet subcultures. We learned about the meaning of images and together questioned the way we learn from online visual culture.
POWER
Being uniquely positioned as those who have a hand in producing our environment; responsibility can be placed upon designers and the power they hold in changing the world for the future. However; power is an elusive and plastic substance that clings to some and slips away from others.