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The Radical Design Podcast

The Radical Design Podcast

Written by: Oliver Vodeb + guests
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The Radical Design Podcast is a newish special monthly show re-thinking the radical potentials of design. We aim to understand the world better through deep conversations with people who are doing significant things. Dive into design beyond the conventional. Hosted by Oliver Vodeb, the podcast explores how design intersects with radical practice and adventurous thought. Each episode features conversations with thinkers, activists and practitioners who do work that matters. Built on Memefest's 24 years of global work on radical design, this podcast is our new "pirate island" for discussions about things and in ways that go beyond institutional, professional or disciplinary censorship.


We are interested in design emerging in the undercurrents, kicking capitalism while its down. Our first series, Radical Intimacies, features dialogues with contributors to the book Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities, exploring themes of dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. These conversations highlight design operating beyond dominant, extractive paradigms—aimed at imagining and building new worlds and social relations. Find the book here.


From the aesthetics of resistance to strategies of radical imagination, the podcast investigates the ideas shaping design as a tool for transformation.


About Memefest:

Memefest is an international network interested in transforming social relations through radical design. Independent and collaborative, it works with universities, practitioners, and social movements to create spaces for deep exchange in the undercurrents.



Credits:

Hosted by Oliver Vodeb / Memefest

Co-production with Intellect Publishers

Music by Bait: https://bait2.bandcamp.com/

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Memefest Art Social Sciences
Episodes
  • George Petelin and Oliver Vodeb: No Intimacy, No Dialogue: Radical Closeness in a Pseudo-Intimate World

    George Petelin and Oliver Vodeb: No Intimacy, No Dialogue: Radical Closeness in a Pseudo-Intimate World
    Feb 2 2026

    Oliver Vodeb talks to George Petelin, author of the chapter on Dialogue in Memfest’s book on Radical Intimacy. They discuss the importance of intimacy for true dialogue to take place and how conditions in contemporary society erode that intimacy or substitute it with forms of pseudo-intimacy. Radical Art and Design face the difficult task of restoring intimate dialogue mediated through technology on a mass scale.

    Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/


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    57 mins
  • Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Chrissie Orr and Oliver Vodeb: SeedBroadcast and the Wisdom of the Seeds

    Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Chrissie Orr and Oliver Vodeb: SeedBroadcast and the Wisdom of the Seeds
    Dec 6 2025

    What carries more wisdom than the seed? Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann and Chrissie Orr collaborate on SeedBroadcast, a transdisciplinary art project, raising the culture of agri-culture and putting the seed in the centre of our relations with the world. In this podcast episode they speak with Oliver Vodeb about the different and intimate dimensions of their work learning from the seed and using the knowledge to empower our understanding and our relations.


    PODCAST CREDITS:

    Hosted by: Oliver Vodeb/ Memefest​. The podcast is a collaboration between Memefest and Intellect publishers.​

    Music: Thanks to Bait for their song Property Law. Two best friends meeting seasonally in bucolic surrounds to generate improvised music. Property Law recognises the Indigenous peoples of the world's relationship to land. As in, "we don't own the land. The land owns us." Each of us is only passing through. Empires, Epochs come & go, but the spirit of the land persists.

    Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/


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    57 mins
  • Kyle Magee and Oliver Vodeb: How to Participate in the Public Sphere

    Kyle Magee and Oliver Vodeb: How to Participate in the Public Sphere
    Oct 22 2025

    In this conversation, artist and activist Kyle Magee joins Oliver Vodeb to explore what it means to act publicly—through subvertising, image intervention, and sustained political engagement within a media landscape dominated by corporate power. Together, they ask: what does genuine participation in the public sphere look like today? Noone does anti- advertising activism like Kyle Magee. And we at Memefest should know.

    Visit our website: https://memefest.org/knowledge/memefest-radical-design/


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    57 mins
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