‘Al-Archive’ is a workshop series inviting visual makers (be they designers, visual artists, photographers, animators, etc..) to visualize key moments in our recent history through comparing sources and contexts. The multiple outcomes and perspectives are meant to be collected and mediated as a ‘subjective archive’ targeting communication and media platforms. Moreover, the workshop encourages cros
s-disciplinary collaborations with journalists, writers, historians and theorists from different disciplines. The workshop intends at maximizing criticality in design at times when initiatives around the world are lobbying for a total decolonization of design education in order to ignite a change in power and perspective. Knowledge, a product of artistic and design research, should thus consider a decentralized starting point, stirring away from the role of the ‘center’. If design is seeking a serious alliance with criticality and a wider reach to communal realms, the production of knowledge should use multiple sources.
- How do we - visual makers - contribute to the production of knowledge?
- How do we re-design sources of information?
- How do we trace common connections, influences and milestones in our sociopolitical history?
- How do we visualize and represent news from different perspectives through intentionally subjective lenses?
