Ongoing workshop series, developed and organised in collaboration with Maya Ober.
depatriarchise design *!Labs!* is a series of workshops dealing with politics of design and artefacts, trying to bridge between theory and practice, developing hands-on approaches to discussing the societal issues within design practice, through an intersectional feminist lens.
Each *!Lab!* is an educational experiment trying to expand and to question the established ways of teaching, learning, producing and displaying design. The *!Labs!* are rooted and inspired by feminist pedagogy produced in the course of decades, and couldn’t come to live without them. They are also spaces for dialogue, personal expressiveness, caring and unlearning – they are never meant to be finished, rather form part of a larger process of depatriarchising design. Using the existing online platform of depatriarchise design, we will share questions, assignments, reflections to engage into an exchange with the wider community to participate in the co-creation of knowledge and design productions.
Our *!Labs!* are spaces where participants can explore design from feminist perspectives, exchange ideas, find allies, and create hands-on tools for their daily design practice.
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The Visual Identity of depatriarchise design *!Labs!*
Nina Paim and Corinne Gisel from common-interest, a non-profit cultural organisation based in Basel, were not only asked to develop a programme for one of the *!Labs!*, but also commissioned to design the overall visual identity of depatriarchise design *!Labs!*.
common-interest says: “We propose to use the visual identity of ‘depatriarchise design *!Labs!*’ as a platform to support and promote young female type designers. Simply put, for each workshop, we will select and purchase a typeface by a different female designer. By creating a singular identity for each workshop, the visual identity of ‘depatriarchise design *!Labs!*’ will grow into a diverse set of positions. At the same time, the identity will function as a type-specimen that promotes emerging names and thereby becomes a feminist tool for graphic design in and of itself.”
The first three *!Labs!* feature the following type faces:
Vinila by Flora de Carvalho
Nikolai by Franziska Weitgruber
Chimera by Maria Doreuli
depatriarchise design
depatriarchise design is a practice-led research platform that examines the complicity of design in the reproduction of oppressive systems, focusing predominantly on patriarchy, using intersectional feminist analysis. The platform is currently run by Berlin-based Anja Neidhardt and Basel-based Maya Ober.
common-interest
common-interest is a non-profit creative practice based in Basel. Their mission is to bridge socially and culturally relevant insight—scientific, scholarly, journalistic, artistic, or otherwise—and broad audiences through creative means of storytelling and mediation. In short, they are dedicated to making research public. They apply designerly ways of thinking across various disciplines such as writing, editing, publishing, curating, and exhibition-making. Founded by Corinne Gisel and Nina Paim in 2018, common-interest initiates its own productions, takes on commissioned projects, and offers its expertise to non-profit, public sector, and philanthropic clients.
depatriarchise design *!Labs!* is supported by the cultural department of the city of Basel.
