September 12

Design After Design

Location
Copenhagen SV, Denmark
Attendance
In-person Event
Host
Post Design Festival
Travel
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About Design After Design

DESIGN AFTER DESIGN explores the far-reaching impact of design at its most harmful and hopeful, inviting us to reimagine what it could be.

As the latest iteration of POST DESIGN FESTIVAL, this one-day festival of talks and open conversations navigates three thematic perspectives, each reflecting on a key stage of the design lifecycle: BEFORE (research & context), DURING (processes & production), and AFTER (systems & interactions). From challenging who holds the power and why, to unpacking the ethics of the tools we use, to learning from community-driven practices, this festival dives into the juicy, uncomfortable, and transformative parts of design that often get brushed aside in the name of profit. By bringing together an international selection of progressive designers, we aim to build critical momentum and new creative networks around a future of non-extractive and non-exploitative design practices. Through participatory formats we’ll create space for connection, debate and inspiration, delving into possibilities from subtle shifts to bold visions for the future of design. Rather than giving answers, it aims to provide questions: So, do you believe in design after design?

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Speakers

Silvio Lorusso

Learn more about Silvio Lorusso

Silvio Lorusso is an Italian writer, artist and designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. He published Entreprecariat (Onomatopee) in 2019 and What Design Can’t Do (Set Margins’) in 2023. Lorusso is an assistant professor at the Lusófona University in Lisbon and a tutor at the Information Design department of Design Academy Eindhoven. He holds a Ph.D. in Design Sciences from the Iuav University of Venice.

Slavs and Tatars

Learn more about Slavs and Tatars

Slavs and Tatars is an art collective exploring the intersection of language, politics, and identity across Eurasia. Their printed works blend scholarly rigor with playful humor, often merging archival research with bold visual design. Through publications, posters, editions, merch, and ephemera, they challenge cultural assumptions and provoke dialogue across disciplines.

Marisa Cohn

of ETHOS LAB

Learn more about Marisa Cohn

Marisa Cohn is an interdisciplinary researcher who combines ethnographic and critical design to explore the chronopolitics of technologies. Her work examines cultural dimensions of infrastructural decay, software maintenance, and technological obsolescence. She is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and a founding co-director of the ETHOS Lab. ETHOS Lab is a critical feminist methods laboratory dedicated to experimentation at the intersection of digital methods, ethnographic inquiry, and speculative fabulation.

stanza

Learn more about stanza

stanza is a feminist collective for critical graphic design & publishing in Copenhagen consisting of Marie Højlund, Freja Kir, Line-Gry Hørup and Laura Silke. As a graphic design studio they accept commissions for projects such as visual identities, exhibition design and books within a broad range of cultural, institutional and political initiatives. For each project the members occupy various roles besides graphic design, such as editing and researching, at times writing, photography and printing takes part as well. As a noun, stanza has a double meaning, referring both to the linguistic (from English) and to the spatial (from Italian). While the first, points to the sentence structures within poems, the later simply means ‘a room’. Through various formats such as exhibitions, talks, screenings and presentations, stanza’s project space manifests publishing as an independent artistic praxis.