Compendiums:

Compendium: Form Follows Finance
By Joanna Boehnert

An Anticipated Pandemic & Post-Covid Design Economies

In an ideal world, designers would create ways of living to meet human needs and desires without undermining the climate system and contributing to the sixth extinction event. In the political system we inherited, designers work within an economic context that harnesses our skills to reproduce unsus...

Compendium: Form Follows Finance
By Sunniva Sandbukt

“Top Up With Driver”: Entanglements of Design, Online Drivers, and Digital Money in Indonesia

“Belum bisa” the barista told me when I asked if I could pay for my coffee with a digital wallet. You can’t yet. It was one of my first weeks of fieldwork on digital payments in Yogyakarta, and I was confused because I had particularly selected this coffee shop after having seen it listed in the Ind...

Compendium: Form Follows Finance
By Christine Bjerke

Financial Reflections in The Uncanny Mirror

From a one dollar everyday item in a convenience store, to a holy object at an ancient shrine,the mirror is one of the most diverse cultural objects embedded within financial interpretations. To most, the mirror is used as a tool for personal care and is an essential part of our everyday lives....

Compendium: Single Articles
By Agustina García del Río

DWELLING IMPRESSIONS A Phenomenological Architectural Study in 3 Acts

Architecture and design can improve social conditions. Throughout the world, local traditions and patterns of living are being modified. People are becoming more aware of their needs and the value of their welfare. The work we do as architects and designers should align with society and these social...

Compendium: Neoliberal Technologies and Production of Subjectivity
By Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig

The Split Subject of Speculative Discourse

Every discourse feeds an illusion—an image of a world without an unconscious— on the one hand and on the other produces a claim, for example the “I claim” or “I define” of philosophical discourse, statements that serve as the declaration of power of the master and his agents. What we’re concerned wi...

Compendium: Identity & Feminism
By Nele Ruckelshausen

We’re All Bodybuilders Now

I’ve been growing for four years now. You can see it looking at my legs. My quads bulge over my kneecaps at the joint. You can see it looking at my shoulders, broader than those of my male friends....

Compendium: Identity & Feminism
By Mette Bystrup

Sliding Doors

In the hit movie Sliding Doors from 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow plays the main character. When Gwyneth gets fired from her PR-job for taking some vodka, two parallel story lines develop in tandem ......

Compendium: Single Articles
By The Reading School

Human Interconnection

This online workshop with The Reading School was about reading and writing and the potential to create new content based on present technology: What happens when your physical body (or objects) meets the logic of a virtual representation – in a time when physical distancing is essential for human...

Compendium: Neoliberal Technologies and Production of Subjectivity
By Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

The Society of The Accessory

We live in the spectacle, without a proletariat. When Guy Debord coined the notion of the society of the spectacle in the early 1960’s, he could of course not envision the image machines we have at our disposal today. That’s probably for the best. Debord killed himself in 1994 shooting himself in th...

OVERCOMING THE GROWTHOCENE – To conclude, overcoming what’s recently been called the “growthocene” demands a thorough understanding of what we are up against – both materially and socially as well as ideologically. For the climate justice movement to be successful, we have to do many things – but also to debunk the “fairy tales of eternal economic growth,” as Greta put it.