September 08 - 09

Post Design Tangle, Chapter 4: POWER

Location
Helsinki, Finland
Attendance
In-person Event
Host
Post Design Festival

Design often finds itself tasked with constructing an illusion of authority and control—tangible and intangible. What are the boundaries of our agency as visual makers? What forces are enmeshed in, and perpetuated by creative practices, creative work structures and the images we produce and consume?

The final chapter of the travelling two-year design festival will present a handful of the most interesting and progressive visual communicators in the world right now to tackle the entangled reality of design. Besides inspiring talks, the festival will ensure plenty of opportunities to (re)connect with the local design community in Helsinki and to make new connections with our line-up of speakers and the international POST audience. Warm-up event hosted by Multipöly Afterparty by MYÖS Collective

Speakers

Noura Tafeche

Learn more about Noura Tafeche

Noura Tafeche is a visual artist and independent researcher. She graduated in New Technologies for Art at Accademia di Brera with a particular interest in net.art and radical entertainment and continued her university studies in Philosophy. Her work deepens the study of online visual cultures, linguistic experimentations and visual representation of speculative theories.

Manuel Raeder

Learn more about Manuel Raeder

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. Manuel is also the founder of the publishing house BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.

Chiara Di Leone

Learn more about Chiara Di Leone

Chiara Di Leone is a writer and researcher based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the history of science, with a particular emphasis on world computer models in the 1970s. Through an interdisciplinary approach, she explores the intersection of design and the history of (social) technologies uncovering how these models influenced our understanding of the past and shaped visions of the future.

Laura Pappa

Learn more about Laura Pappa

Laura Pappa is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam working primarily in the cultural field. She is a visiting lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Next to commissioned work and teaching she occasionally tries her hand at writing and organising events.

Ryan Waller

of Other Means

Learn more about Ryan Waller

Other Means is a design company that plays with words to shape meaning. Rather than timeless, neutral systems that transfer information, their projects introduce friction to catch audiences off-guard, encouraging them to take notice and increase their awareness. This ensures that the visual languages Other Means create for their clients develop naturally over time, alongside their missions and programs, outlasting the cultural moment in which they were conceived.