Al Archive

Testing our subjective archiving process with a small group of talented creatives. The pilot was held at Printroom Rotterdam. Outcome(s) visualizing 9/11 will be published soon.

Gorilla is a visual column that comments on current affairs through words and images. De Designpolitieie states: 'In our capacity as designers, we find it important to become involved in social debate. That brings with it a certain responsibility and opportunity we eagerly take to be able to share reports on social topics with the rest of the world'.
What do you think of such initiatives and how to transform such efforts into an impactful 'voice'?
http://www.designpolitie.nl/case/gorilla/

Gorilla - De Designpolitie

Alterative facts: Lebanon's history via pop culture. Since Lebanon still lacks a unified history book for the period that covers the war, due to the absence of a winner and therefore the prevalence of a single version of the events, and as time goes by - instead of losing all traces of the past - why not replace the divisive "politics" by the colletive memory which emanates from pop culture? This is a project by Tarek Chemaly to (re)write the history of Lebanon in a perspective everyone agrees upon.

Tarek Joseph Chemaly The video art of Tarek Chemaly, other opinions are voiced through www.beirutntsc.blogspot.com

Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country as they see it. As a result, 'The subjective Atlas of Palestine' won awards and gained international recognition. What do you think of de Vet's approach? Could documentation succeed without taking political sides?

Subjective Atlas of Palestine