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Designing Economic Cultures is a research project that sets out to investigate the relationship between socio-economic precarity and the production of socially and politically engaged design projects.

The fundamental question the project poses is:
how can designers, who through their work want to question and challenge the prevalent economic system, gain a satisfying degree of social and economic security without having to submit themselves to the commercial pressures of the market?  Read more ›

Construction site for non-affirmative practice

Constructive Dismantling

My Castle Is Your Castle

Publication: Conversations March 2011-February 2012

20.06.2012

We included the first 9 conversations (CUP, Conway + Young, Islington Mill, Goldex Poldex, Feral Trade, Emma Hostel, Zoe Romano, image-shift and The Nonformal University of Teremiski) in a small publication, which is part of the exhibition Panorama 4 (16.06-30.09.2012, Franzensfeste-Fortezza). Visitors can assemble their publication and take it away.

Download the publication (zip, 2,1 Mb)