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The Radical Design Podcast

The Radical Design Podcast

By: Oliver Vodeb + guests
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The Radical Design Podcast is a 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. Some of the guests so far included Arturo Escobar, Patricio Dávila and Kyle Magee. 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 boundaries.


We are interested in design emerging in the undercurrents, kicking capitalism while its down. From the aesthetics of resistance to strategies of radical imagination, the podcast investigates the ideas shaping design as a tool for transformation.


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. Find the book here.


Our conversations highlight design operating beyond dominant, extractive paradigms—aimed at imagining and building new worlds and social relations.


Subscribe to join the conversation and explore Radical Design.



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/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes
  • PART 2 Daryl Taylor: Earthship Futures- Radical Design for Community and Life

    PART 2 Daryl Taylor: Earthship Futures- Radical Design for Community and Life
    Jul 29 2026

    THIS IS THE SECOND PART OF THE CONVERSATION: Earthship Futures: Radical Design for Community and Life is a live conversation between Daryl Taylor and Oliver Vodeb, at 2026 Melbourne Design Week, recorded as part of the Radical Design Podcast. The discussion focuses on Taylor’s Earthship project in Kinglake, Victoria – an experimental natural building initiative developed through international participatory workshops following the Black Saturday mega-firestorm, Australia’s worst natural disaster.


    The session explores how community-led design and architecture can support socio-ecological restoration and regenerativity, post-disaster community recovery and discovery, and social and emotional resilience. Drawing on lived experience, the speakers will examine undisciplined and fringe design knowledge, co-liberatory climate-responsive design processes and practices, and the role of design in rebuilding both physical and social infrastructure in disaster-vulnerable and -impacted regions. The event took the form of a moderated dialogue followed by audience Q&A and discussion. *We were also joined by Serenity Hill, a food sovereignty community activist.


    Daryl Taylor

    Daryl Taylor is a pioneering Melbourne-based builder, educator, and community leader, known for constructing Victoria’s first council-approved Earthship in Kinglake—a radically sustainable, fire-resistant home built from recycled materials after losing his own in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. As a lived-experience mental health and neurodivergency advocate, he has shaped policy and education in community development, disaster resilience, and participatory design across government, NGO, and academic sectors, teaching at five Melbourne universities and co-authoring influential works on post-disaster recovery. Daryl’s work—spanning eco-design, permaculture, and community-led resilience—has earned national awards and features in ABC News and Grand Designs Australia, while his initiatives like Facing Fire, Biocultural Futures, and Retro-Futures continue to inspire sustainable, adaptive living in the age of climate change.

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

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    58 mins
  • PART 1 Earthship Futures: Radical Design for Community and Life

    PART 1 Earthship Futures: Radical Design for Community and Life
    Jun 10 2026

    Earthship Futures: Radical Design for Community and Life is a live conversation between Daryl Taylor and Oliver Vodeb, at 2026 Melbourne Design Week, recorded as part of the Radical Design Podcast. The discussion focuses on Taylor’s Earthship project in Kinglake, Victoria – an experimental natural building initiative developed through international participatory workshops following the Black Saturday mega-firestorm, Australia’s worst natural disaster.


    The session explores how community-led design and architecture can support socio-ecological restoration and regenerativity, post-disaster community recovery and discovery, and social and emotional resilience. Drawing on lived experience, the speakers will examine undisciplined and fringe design knowledge, co-liberatory climate-responsive design processes and practices, and the role of design in rebuilding both physical and social infrastructure in disaster-vulnerable and -impacted regions. The event took the form of a moderated dialogue followed by audience Q&A and discussion. *We were also joined by Serenity Hill, a food sovereignty community activist.


    Daryl Taylor

    Daryl Taylor is a pioneering Melbourne-based builder, educator, and community leader, known for constructing Victoria’s first council-approved Earthship in Kinglake—a radically sustainable, fire-resistant home built from recycled materials after losing his own in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. As a lived-experience mental health and neurodivergency advocate, he has shaped policy and education in community development, disaster resilience, and participatory design across government, NGO, and academic sectors, teaching at five Melbourne universities and co-authoring influential works on post-disaster recovery. Daryl’s work—spanning eco-design, permaculture, and community-led resilience—has earned national awards and features in ABC News and Grand Designs Australia, while his initiatives like Facing Fire, Biocultural Futures, and Retro-Futures continue to inspire sustainable, adaptive living in the age of climate change.

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

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Jane Naylor and Oliver Vodeb: How to Go on an Artstrike?!

    Jane Naylor and Oliver Vodeb: How to Go on an Artstrike?!
    Apr 8 2026

    The amazing Jane Naylor speaks with Oliver Vodeb about how to go on an Artstrike. Jane reassessed her art practice, went on an Artstrike and developed the concept of *Rt. Find out what this means, and how could you do it yourself. Besides this, we talk about deeper and more nuanced ways on how to distinguish Art from Art in ways that help us see through the BullS*** Art World and what it calls Art. Oh, and one thing we really LOVE: Jane speaks about her work in relation to solidarity and the ephemeral! Enjoy!

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

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 1 min
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