Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice (MA thesis in Design Studies at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design) 🙏 A longue durée perspective on precolonial, colonial and postcolonial histories of adaptation and resistance through design. #designhistory #design #typedesign

🫧 Degree show time 🫧 Glimpse of my MA thesis: »Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice«. Huge thanks to everyone that was involved 💜 #signwriting #signpainting #research #design #designhistory #visualculture #designstudies #typography #kinshasa #drcongo #decolonial #art #theory

Multiplying decolonial whirls – second day teaching at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. #teachingdesign #design #graphicdesign #photigraphy #colonial #archive #coloniality #pluriversal #congo #typography #signpainting

One of our main readings during a seminar I will teach next week will be this book: "Potential History — Unlearning Imperialism" by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. It has been deeply influential for me, so I am really looking forward to discuss it with the students 💟 #book #seminar #reading #art #design

One of the brightest stars in contemporary art from the African continent passed on to the extra-worldly. I am speechless, without words. May you rest in peace, Koyo Kouoh. And may your brightness continue to shine and inspire.

Some of my favourite people and places in Berlin "They strive to develop and promote an understanding of cosmopolitanism in the plural which combines visions of transcultural justice, peace and conviviality with an ethical commitment to difference and alterity." www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosm...

#atstake Fred Moten cited in Manning's "The Minor Gesture" #oldenburg #justiceforlorenz

#justice4lorenz #lorenz #oldenburg #niedersachsen #silencekills #defundthepolice #policebrutality #silolidarity #standingtogether

Lorenz, a young Black man, was shot 4 times, in the back, by the #police in #oldenburg #germany. We will not be silent. #silence #kills #racism #kills. We remember all the lives lost to #policebrutality and #systemicracism. Today at 4pm in #berlin. #schweigentötet #niedersachsen 📸 #ouryjalloh 2019

One of the best panels I have attended in the recent past ❤️❤️❤️ Seloua Luste Boulbina, Nikita Dhawan and Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, moderated by Maboula Soumahoro 🪄✨ @hkw-berlin.bsky.social #deberliniserung #1885 #congoconference #berlin #congo #pluriversal #coloniality #utopia #worlds #meeting #crossing

At @hkw-berlin.bsky.social a beautiful and hopeful conference started, departing from 140 years of the #congoconference to think worlds beyond #coloniality. Memories of the first year at #savvycontemporary came back & the first #graphicdesign I made there 🦋 #berlin #deberlinisation #deberlinisierung

We say à bientôt, Prof. VY Mudimbe. Your incredibly critical, generous and sharp spirit will stay with us, even though your material being has passed ✦ To one of the greatest intellectuals of the Congo ✦
#mudimbe #decolonization #theideaofafrica #philosophy #theinventionofafrica #congo #freecongo

New things in the making… #graphicdesign #editorialdesign #design For the fantastic jazz musician, composer and dear friend Luise Volkmann and her ensemble Été Large 🎷✨ #mwanostudio Thinking about telling stories and all contradictions language can’t express 🧶

Ok. So this is the beginning to get away from Meta. Unfortunately I cannot quite set up a @flashes.blue account yet. Hope that will get easier soon with more people joining. Img: Artwork by Nada Tshibwabwa, Photo by Stephane Gladieu, Kinshasa 2022.