Talks+Words+Workshops
Conference Papers and Keynote Talks
June 2024:
Grenfailed State, using Graphic Communication to help get justice for Grenfell.
University of Bedfordshire, Research Conference.
March 2020:
Playfully Protesting Climate Chaos
Keynote talk at Play With Purpose Conference, University of Bedfordshire.
September 2017:
Styling Revolt or Revolt in Style? Ideas of Revolt, Graphic Design Educators Network Conference, Sheffield Institute of the Arts, Sheffield.
September 2015:
The Graphic Language of the Anti-Austerity Movements since 2008, PLANK conference, Techniques of Art and Protest, Kings College, London. Talking as Occupy Design.
October 2012:
Design Practice For The Common Good Typolondon International Design Conference 2012 Social, Beyond Design Cosmetics (as part of Occupy Design). Institute Of Education, London.
https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/the-bloomsbury-set
September 2011:
Signs of Revolt, the Sign, the City and Revolution in the 21st Century at Social Change and Design Activism, Design History Society’s annual conference, Fundacio Historia del Diseno University of Barcelona. https://historiadeldisseny.org/en/publications/proceedings-of-the-conference-design-activism-and-social-change/
Conference Proceedings Digital Book: https://historiadeldisseny.org/web/wp-content/uploads/Llibre-Actes-Design_Activism_and_Social_Change.pdf
January 2010:
Sign Wars the struggle for Life against Things in the 21st Century
Graphic Design and Social Responsibility Conference,
Katowice, Poland
July 2008:
My Space? at New Views 2 Conference
, London College of Communication, London.
July 2004:
Sign Wars: The Aesthetics of the Anti-Capitalist Movement paper given at Imaging Social Movements conference, Edge Hill College, Lancashire.
Feb 2004:
Session Chair and speaker, The Aesthetics of the Counter-Globalisation Movement
, College Art Association annual conference, Seattle, USA. http://www.collegeart.org
Seminars and Panels
April 2023:
Panel discussion – Oliver Ressler: Barricading the Ice Sheets
The Showroom Gallery, London.
Oliver Ressler in conversation with artist and activist Noel Douglas, Dr Antigoni Memou, Art Historian and Senior Lecturer at the University of East London; and curator and writer Lena Reisner.
October 2022:
Playfully Protesting Climate Chaos Seminar talk presented on the 8th October panel with Lena Johanna Reisner (DE), Sophie Goltz (DE), Oliver Ressler (AUS).
‘Sign Wars-Memes and Class Struggle’ Workshop 9th October.
As part of Flood Tides of Resistance at Neme Projects Space and Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
Curated by Oliver Ressler.
February 2019:
The Persuasive Image, Panel Talk for BA Illustration.
Kingston Art School, Kingston University, London.
December 2017:
Art Into Life panel discussion with Kate Schwarb, Ben Highmore, Judith Stewart, Sainsbury Centre Studio, UEA, Norwich.
September 2017:
Gregory Sholette: Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism Book Launch.
Symposium and conversation. Kim Charnley (video), Noor Afshan Mirza, Loraine Leeson and Noel Douglas.
September 2017:
The Future Of Social Mobilisation In The Creative Industries. Panel discussion at Hype Peace Pop Up Store, Shoreditch, London.
May 2017:
Graphic Persuasion Discussion Event.
Panelists: Noel Douglas, Rodrigo Lebrun, Mia Frostner, Arj Harrison, Kelly Satchell, Rachel Sale (scribe)
Discussion organised by Crowd Talks, Peckham Pelican, London
November 2014:
It’s The Political Economy, Stupid Seminar. Pefkios Georghiades Hall, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
Speakers: Gregory Sholette, Oliver Ressler, Areti Leopoulou, Andreas Panayiotou, Noel Douglas.
Moderator: Antonis Danos.
October 2014:
Occupy Posters paper/visual talk as part of panel dicussion Posters, Politics, Protest: British Political Posters
People’s History Museum, Manchester organised in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum
and Manchester Metropolitan University.
September 2013:
Panel talk about my practice as part of Krisis and Alternatives at The Centre For Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia. Introduction of the program, exhibitions, artists and talks on the politics of visual representation of the crisis and protests
Participants: Noel Douglas (London), Collective, KART (Belgrade), Association Kurs (Belgrade)
Moderated by: Boris Kanzleiter, Vladan Jeremi
Simultaneous translation: English – Serbian
June 2013:
Part of panel discussion at Radical Gestures: designing protest, resistance and refusal, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London.
April 2013:
Think In, Greenham Arts/Newbury Corn Exchange with Peter Kennard
March 2013:
Design Activism: how does it change things? Design Culture Salon, V&A Museum, London with Jody Boehnert, Paul Micklethwaite and Jonathan Chapman, chaired by Guy Julier.
June 2012:
Designing Alternatives: A Symposium of Contemporary Radical Design Practice
Part of the panel for this discussion with Brave New Alps, Fieldclub and the Design Disruption Group.
Edinburgh College Of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
June 2012:
What if artists and designers redesigned economics?
Capitalism isn’t working and the world is plummeting into a downward economic spiral, dragging down society and the environment with it. Prominent activists from the world of art, design and economics discuss the imperative of finding new way forwards, and ask what the role of the arts and design might be in a new economic revolution.
Chaired by Cecilia Wee, RCA.
Other Speakers: Ellie Harrison, artist, Livia Lima, RCA Visual Communication graduate 2012, James Meadway and Ruth Potts, New Economics Foundation
Royal College Of Art, London.
Part of the New Economics Foundation’s Festival of Transition
http://www.festivaloftransition.net/what-if/creatives-redesigned-economics
May 2012:
Discussing the creative resistance: How is art used effectively in protest? A panel discussion event to coincide with the exhibition Our Demonstration with Leah Borromeo of The Space Hijackers, The Vacuum Cleaner and Dean Kenning. The Hub, Kings Cross, London.
March 2012:
Design as Politics, Power and Shadow A discussion about how visual communicators deal with the political landscape within a shift in communication methods with Metahaven chaired by Rick Poyner, organised by RCA students as part of Red Tape. Royal College of Art, London.
September 2008:
Part of Panel discussion, A World Where Many Worlds Fit
Taipei Biennial, Taiwan Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.
March 2008:
Speaker as part of panel on Ethics in the Creative Industries
Camberwell College of Arts in conjunction with Eye Magazine, London
. Other panelists included: Rick Poyner, Ken Garland.
http://eyediscuss.blogspot.com/
November 2003:
Organised Seminar Jamming their Culture, Creating Our Own at the European Social Forum,
Paris, France. http://www.fse-esf.org
October 2002:
Panel discussion on the relationship between Art and Politics, as part of the 25 Years after
Stammheim day at the ICA, the Mall, London.
September 2001:
Organised panel discussion on Creative Resistance at Another World is Possible conference,
Hammersmith Riverside Studios, London.
Books/Publications Authored
January 2004:
Regime Change Begins At Home Playing Cards. New Press (USA). ISBN-10 : 1565849116
June 2003:
Regime Change Begins At Home Playing Cards. Bookmarks Publications. London. ISBN-10 : 1898876991 – These were a best seller, selling over 30,000 copies during 2003/4.
July 1999:
Website Graphics Now, Editors Noel Douglas, Geert Jan Strengholt, Willem Velthoven. Thames and Hudson, ISBN-10 : 050028119X
https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/33809/website-graphics-now
May 1999:
Website Graphics Now, Editors: Noel Douglas, Geert Jan Strengholt, Willem Velthoven. BIS Publishers B.V. ISBN-10 : 9072007530
Books Authored (Chapter)
2011:
We Will March Chapter in Springtime, The New Student Rebellions. Verso. London and New York. ISBN-10 : 1844677400
Book, Magazine and Web Articles
Nov 2023:
Grass Grows Greener, On The Other Side – Article and Illustration for
Left Journal Cultures Issue 2
June 2023:
Shell Brandalism Art Activism feature in Joy G.Bertling’s Art Education for a Sustainable Planet: Embracing Ecopedagogy in K–12 Classrooms
January 2020:
Part of roundtable discussion in: Hawes, A., 2019. Collecting Prints, Posters and Ephemera, chapter:The Challenge of Collecting Digital Posters and Graphics from the Web: A Roundtable Discussion. In: Iskin, R. E., and Salsbury, B. (eds.)., Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World, London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 262-274. ISBN-10 : 1501338498
April 2018:
Featured in Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18 Catalogue, Lucienne Roberts (Editor). Design Museum, London. ISBN-10 : 1872005357
May 2018:
Featured in an article on Memes as a future design form in Disengo Journal 18.
June 2016:
Work featured in Viewpoint Magazine.
September 2015:
Regime Change Begins At Home Cards Featured in Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century by Liz mcQuiston published by Phaidon ISBN: 0714869708.
March 2015:
Cultural Exchange Article for Grafik magazine.
May 2015:
Beyond Selfish Article for Eye Magazine on selfiecity.net
July 2014:
Featured in Disobedient Objects book, Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon,
V&A Publishing. ISBN-10 : 1851777970
February 2013:
Article on Occupy Design for desktop Magazine, Australia.
Summer 2011:
Beyond Words, Eye Magazine 80
January 2011:
Featured in Connaissances et Techniques, Gavin Ambrose and Nigel Aono Bilson, PYRAMYD, France ISBN-10 : 2350172392
December 2010:
Featured in Basics Graphic Design 01: Approach and Language, Gavin Ambrose and Nigel Aono Bilson. AVA Publishing ISBN-10 : 2940411352
November 2010:
Featured in Green Patriot Posters book. Thames and Hudson ISBN-10 : 1935202243
Summer 2010:
Attacked by music, type and light. Eye Magazine 76 https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/attacked-by-music-type-light
July 2009:
Off The Wall, Eye Magazine Blog https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/off-the-wall
January 2009:
Treasure trove of graphic resistance, Black Panther: Emory Douglas and the Art of Revolution, Exhibition Review, Eye Magazine Blog.
https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/treasure-trove-of-graphic-resistance
Winter 2007:
Whose Space? Eye Magazine 66 https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/whose-space
July 2004:
Featured in Graphic Agitation by Liz McQuiston, Phaidon Press ISBN-10 : 0714841773
January 2003:
Featured in Making Art of Databases: Master Class Series Interfacing Realities, Jake Brouwer, NAI Publishers ISBN-10 : 9056623095 https://v2.nl/events/interfacing-realities-master-classes
Jan 1999:
SupUrmarket information for action through network technology Mediamatic Magazine. https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/8689/supurmarket
My profile at Eye Magazine
https://www.eyemagazine.com/profile/author/noel-douglas
Talks
Oct 2021:
Jamming Their Culture, Creating Their Own
Left Design Festival, online festival organised by Labour Party Graphic Designers Group
Mar 2019:
The Vandals Took The Handles
School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University
Jan 2019:
Capitalism is the end of the world?
Kingston Art School, Kingston University, London.
Mar 2018:
Dialogues Forum for PHD/MA/BA Fine Art students, invited speaker alongside artists DashDem and curator Clare Carolin, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich.
Oct 2017:
Austerity WTF!, School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool.
November 2016:
Alternative Art School, School of Design, Kingston University.
October 2016:
Power, part of The Expanded Designer Talks, UAL, Camberwell College of Art/Chelsea School of Art and Design.
August 2016:
Beautfiful Trouble – Creative Resistance to a Commodified World, talk at Boom Festival, Portugal.
March 2016:
Beautiful Trouble School of Art and Design, Kingston University, London.
December 2015:
Political posters of the Occupy protest wave Nottingham Museum and Castle Gallery, as part of ‘A World To Win’ V&A Exhibition, Nottingham.
May 2015:
Resist, Revolt, Design Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Fair, Somerset House, London.
March 2015:
Designing Disobedience in the Age of Networks Winchester School of Art, Winchester.
September 2014:
Disobedient Objects, Part 1. Protest Design, talk as part of Disobedient Objects Exhibition and The London Design Festival, V&A Museum, London.
May 2014:
Sign Struggles talk at ‘It’s Not Nice That’ Exhibition, Lighthouse Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
March 2014:
Occupy Design talk and workshop. Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts, London.
January 2014:
Signs Of Revolt, Norwich University Of The Arts, Norwich.
December 2013:
Signs Of Revolt, talk at London College Of Communication, University of Arts, London.
October 2013:
Beautiful Trouble, talk at Buck New University, High Wycombe.
May 2013:
I Am, Because We Are, talk at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
December 2012:
Occupy Design RIMAD research talk, University of Bedfordshire, Luton.
November 2012:
Occupy Design Camberwell College Of Art, University of the Arts, London.
September 2012:
Debrand The City, Expose The 1% Occupy Design Talk at V&A as part of The London Design Festival, London.
November 2011:
Signs of Revolt – Creative Resistance to a Commodified World talk at Tent City University, Occupy London Stock Exchange, St.Pauls, London.
October 2011:
Signs of Revolt – Their Power and Our Power A talk to students at Camberwell College of the Arts, University of the Arts, London.
August 2011:
Because You’re Worth it-Creative Resistance to a Commodified World Talk presented at Galeria ZPAP, Warsaw, Poland. Supported by the British Council.
November 2009:
The Right to the City visual presentation as part of the Festival of Radical Communication,
Signs of Revolt Exhibition, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane London
May 2009:
Because You’re Worth it-Creative Resistance to a Commodified World
Tactical Media and Culture Jamming in the last ten years.
Visual talk to Fine Art and Graphics students at Central St.Martins College, London.
November 2008:
Because You’re Worth it-Creative Resistance to a Commodified World
Tactical Media and Culture Jamming in the last ten years.
Visual talk at London College of Communication, London.
December 2004:
Visual talk Byam Shaw art school, London.
October 2004:
Jamming their Culture, Creating our Own workshop, at the European Social Forum, London.
Dec 2003:
Visual talk to MA students, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
May 2003:
Visual talk, photography department, Royal College of Art, London
April 2003:
Visual talk at Byam Shaw art school, London.
March 2003:
Visual talk at Portsmouth University, Portsmouth.
December 2002:
Visual talk at Byam Shaw art school, London.
July 2002:
Visual talk at Marxism 2002, London.
March 2002:
Visual talk at Byam Shaw art school, London.
January 2002:
Visual talk at Colombia University, New York.
September 2001:
Visual talk at Austrian Cultural Institute, London.
November 1998:
Talk at ‘Baby’ Kiezergracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Press/Radio/TV
July 2023:
Grenfell Next of Kin Project Greatest Hits Radio
July 2023:
Rayo: Billboards created to keep Grenfell tragedy in the public eye.
https://hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/london/news/billboards-created-to-keep-grenfell-tragedy-in-the-public-eye/
November 2019:
Luton Peace Riots retold thanks to new book by Bedfordshire academic
https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/luton-peace-riots-retold-thanks-to-new-book-by-bedfordshire-academic-1303421
July 2014:
Blow-up cobblestones and tiki trucks: unlikely protest objects – in pictures Article on Disobedient Objects show featuring my work. The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jul/23/disobedient-objects-protest-designs-exhibition-v-and-a-in-pictures
February 2012:
Guest on BBC World Service discussing the Occupy movement and Capitalism
December 2010:
Appeared on BBC 3 Counties Radio to discuss the book Green Patriot Posters
December 2010:
Appeared on Graphic Design On The Radio on Resonance FM as part of discussion about the effects of cuts on Art and Design Edcuation.
June 2001:
Panel guest, Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4
May 2001:
Panel guest, Kilroy BBC tv.
Funded Projects
June 2019:
Peace Riots and Fridays For Future Protest Design Project with local community organsation, Cultural Histories, Funding Partners: Arts Council, Heritage Fund, Luton Council, Chiltern Learning Trust and Luton Culture, project report here: https://www.culturalhistories.org/home/luton-peace-riots/ Art Report here: https://www.culturalhistories.org/home/art-project/
This project won the 2019 Best of Bedfordshire Awards Community Arts Project of the year and “Runner Up” in the Leisure and Culture category at the 2019 Luton Best Awards ceremony.
August 2011:
Because You’re Worth it-Exhibition and talk, Creative Resistance to a Commodified World Talk presented at Galeria ZPAP, Warsaw, Poland. Supported by the British Council.
Selected Workshops Led
Jul 2019:
Peace Riots Project Local Community Workshop, School of Art and Design, University of Bedfordshire.
Aug 2018:
Guerilla Comms, Self Organisation and Meme Wars workshop at Byline Festival with Bernardo Gutiaurrez.
Mar 2018:
Beyond Words, Photomontage Workshop at the Design Museum, London. Part of the Hope To Nope exhibition programme.
September 2016:
Propagate+Occupy Design Refugee Crisis themed workshop, Athens, Greece.
November 2012:
Occupy Design workshop Camberwell College Of Art, University of the Arts, London.
September 2012:
Occupy Habnana 2 day Mural Workshop, Univeristy of Habana, Cuba.
Jan 2012:
Two Days of talks and workshop organised for Occupy Design Launch, London
https://occupydesign.org.uk/occupy-design-launch/
August 2011:
Photomontage workshop at Galeria ZPAP, Warsaw, Poland. Supported by the British Council.
October 2004:
Co-Organised the 3 day cultural programme of the European Social Forum, Alexandra Palace, London in conjunction with the Mayor’s Office, London.
Image: Signs of Revolt talk, Norwich University of the Arts
The list below is chronological list of all the types of activities listed above.
Jun 2024:
Grenfailed State, using Graphic Communication to help get justice for Grenfell.
University of Bedfordshire, Research Conference 2024.
Nov 2023:
Grass Grows Greener, On The Other Side – Article and Illustration for
Left Journal Cultures Issue 2
Apr 2023:
Panel discussion – Oliver Ressler: Barricading the Ice Sheets
The Showroom Gallery, London.
Oliver Ressler in conversation with artist and activist Noel Douglas, Dr Antigoni Memou, Art Historian and Senior Lecturer at the University of East London; and curator and writer Lena Reisner.
Jun 2023:
Shell Brandalism Art Activism feature in Joy G.Bertling’s Art Education for a Sustainable Planet: Embracing Ecopedagogy in K–12 Classrooms
Oct 2022:
‘Playfully Protesting Climate Chaos’ Seminar talk presented on the 8th October panel with Lena Johanna Reisner (DE), Sophie Goltz (DE), Oliver Ressler (AUS).
‘Sign Wars-Memes and Class Struggle’ Workshop 9th October.
As part of Flood Tides of Resistance at Neme Projects Space and Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
Curated by Oliver Ressler.
Oct 2021:
Jamming Their Culture, Creating Their Own
Left Design Festival, online festival organised by Labour Party Graphic Designers Group
Mar 2020:
Playfully Protesting Climate Chaos
Keynote talk at Play With Purpose Conference, University of Bedfordshire.
Jan 2020:
Part of roundtable discussion in: Hawes, A., 2019. The Challenge of Collecting Digital Posters and Graphics from the Web: A Roundtable Discussion. In: Iskin, R. E., and Salsbury, B. (eds.)., Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World, London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 262-274.
Nov 2019:
Luton Peace Riots retold thanks to new book by Bedfordshire academic
https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/luton-peace-riots-retold-thanks-to-new-book-by-bedfordshire-academic-1303421
June 2019:
Peace Riots and Fridays For Future Protest Design Project with Cultural Histories, Arts Council funded project report here:
https://www.culturalhistories.org/home/luton-peace-riots/
Art Report here:
https://www.culturalhistories.org/home/art-project/
This project won the Best of Befordshire Community Award that year.
Mar 2019:
The Vandals Took The Handles
School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University
Feb 2019:
The Persuasive Image, Panel Talk for BA Illustration.
Kingston Art School, Kingston University, London.
Jan 2019:
Capitalism is the end of the world?
Kingston Art School, Kingston University, London.
Aug 2018:
Guerilla Comms, Self Organisation and Meme Wars workshop at Byline Festival with Bernardo Gutiaurrez.
May 2018:
Featured in an article on ‘Memes as a future design form‘, in Disengo Journal 18.
April 2018:
Featured in Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18 Catalogue, Lucienne Roberts (Editor). Design Museum, London. ISBN-10 : 1872005357
Mar 2018:
Beyond Words, Photomontage Workshop at the Design Museum, London. Part of the Hope To Nope exhibition programme.
Mar 2018:
Dialogues Forum for PHD/MA/BA Fine Art students, invited speaker alongside artists DashDem and curator Clare Carolin, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich.
Dec 2017:
Art Into Life panel discussion with Kate Schwarb, Ben Highmore, Judith Stewart, Sainsbury Centre Studio, UEA, Norwich.
Oct 2017:
Austerity WTF!, School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool.
Sep 2017:
Gregory Sholette: Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism Book Launch.
Symposium and conversation. Kim Charnley (video), Noor Afshan Mirza, Loraine Leeson and Noel Douglas.
Sep 2017:
Styling Revolt or Revolt in Style? Paper presented at Ideas of Revolt, Graphic Design Educators Network Conference, Sheffield Institute of the Arts, Sheffield.
Sep 2017:
The Future Of Social Mobilisation In The Creative Industries. Panel discussion at Hype Peace Pop Up Store, Shoreditch, London.
May 2017:
Graphic Persuasion Discussion Event.
Panelists: Noel Douglas, Rodrigo Lebrun, Mia Frostner, Arj Harrison, Kelly Satchell, Rachel Sale (scribe)
Discussion organised by Crowd Talks, Peckham Pelican, London.
November 2016:
Alternative Art School, School of Design, Kingston University.
October 2016:
Power, part of The Expanded Designer Talks, UAL, Camberwell College of Art/Chelsea School of Art and Design.
September 2016:
Propagate+Occupy Design Refugee Crisis themed workshop, Athens, Greece.
August 2016:
Talk at Boom Festival, Portugal.
June 2016:
Work featured in Viewpoint Magazine.
March 2016:
Beautiful Trouble School of Art and Design, Kingston University, London.
December 2015:
Political posters of the Occupy protest wave Nottingham Museum and Castle Gallery, as part of ‘A World To Win’ V&A Exhibition, Nottingham.
September 2015:
Regime Change Begins At Home Cards Featured in Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century by Liz mcQuiston published by Phaidon ISBN: 0714869708.
September 2015:
The Graphic Language of the Anti-Austerity Movements since 2008, PLANK conference, Techniques of Art and Protest, Kings College, London. Talking as Occupy Design.
May 2015:
Resist, Revolt, Design Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Fair, Somerset House, London.
May 2015:
Beyond Selfish Article for Eye Magazine on selfiecity.net
March 2015:
Designing Disobedience in the Age of Networks Winchester School of Art, Winchester.
March 2015:
Cultural Exchange Article for Grafik magazine.
November 2014:
It’s The Political Economy, Stupid Seminar
Pefkios Georghiades Hall, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
Speakers: Gregory Sholette, Oliver Ressler, Areti Leopoulou, Andreas Panayiotou, Noel Douglas.
Moderator: Antonis Danos.
October 2014:
Occupy Posters paper/visual talk as part of Posters, Politics, Protest: British Political Posters
People’s History Museum, Manchester organised in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum
and Manchester Metropolitan University.
September 2014:
Disobedient Objects, Part 1. Protest Design, talk as part of Disobedient Objects Exhibition and The London Design Festival, V&A Museum, London.
July 2014:
Featured in Disobedient Objects book, Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon,V&A Publishing.
May 2014:
Sign Struggles talk at ‘It’s Not Nice That’ Exhibition, Lighthouse Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
March 2014:
Occupy Design talk and workshop. Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts, London.
January 2014:
Signs Of Revolt, Norwich University Of The Arts, Norwich.
December 2013:
Signs Of Revolt, talk at London College Of Communication, University of Arts, London.
October 2013:
Beautiful Trouble, talk at Buck New University, High Wycombe.
September 2013:
Panel talk about my practice as part of Krisis and Alternatives at The Centre For Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia. Introduction of the program, exhibitions, artists and talks on the politics of visual representation of the crisis and protests
Participants: Noel Douglas (London), Collective, KART (Belgrade), Association Kurs (Belgrade)
Moderated by: Boris Kanzleiter, Vladan Jeremi
Simultaneous translation: English – Serbian
Press article here.
June 2013:
Part of panel discussion at Radical Gestures: designing protest, resistance and refusal, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London.
May 2013:
I Am, Because We Are, talk at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
April 2013:
Think In, Greenham Arts/Newbury Corn Exchange with Peter Kennard
March 2013:
Design Activism: how does it change things? Design Culture Salon, V&A, London with Jody Boehnert, Paul Micklethwaite and Jonathan Chapman, chaired by Guy Julier.
February 2013:
Article on Occupy Design for desktop Magazine, Australia.
December 2012:
Occupy Design RIMAD research talk, University of Bedfordshire, Luton.
November 2012:
Occupy Design Camberwell College Of Art, University of the Arts, London.
October 2012:
Design Practice For The Common Good Typolondon International Design Conference 2012 Social, Beyond Design Cosmetics (as part of Occupy Design). Institute Of Education, London.
September 2012:
Debrand The City, Expose The 1% Occupy Design Talk at V&A as part of The London Design Festival, London.
June 2012:
Designing Alternatives: A Symposium of Contemporary Radical Design Practice
Part of the panel for this discussion with Brave New Alps, Fieldclub and the Design Disruption Group.
Edinburgh College Of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
June 2012:
What if artists and designers redesigned economics?
Capitalism isn’t working and the world is plummeting into a downward economic spiral, dragging down society and the environment with it. Prominent activists from the world of art, design and economics discuss the imperative of finding new way forwards, and ask what the role of the arts and design might be in a new economic revolution.
Chaired by Cecilia Wee, RCA
Other Speakers: Ellie Harrison, artist, Livia Lima, RCA Visual Communication graduate 2012, James Meadway and Ruth Potts, New Economics Foundation
Royal College Of Art, London.
Part of the New Economics Foundation’s Festival of Transition
http://www.festivaloftransition.net/what-if/creatives-redesigned-economics
May 2012:
Discussing the creative resistance:How is art used effectively in protest? A panel discussion event to coincide with the exhibition “Our Demonstration” with Leah Borromeo of The Space Hijackers, The Vacuum Cleaner and Dean Kenning. The Hub, Kings Cross, London.
March 2012:
Design as Politics, Power and Shadow A discussion about how visual communicators deal with the political landscape within a shift in communication methods with Metahaven chaired by Rick Poyner, organised by RCA students as part of Red Tape. Royal College of Art, London.
February 2012:
Guest on BBC World Service discussing the Occupy movement and Capitalism
November 2011:
Signs of Revolt – Creative Resistance to a Commodified World talk at Tent City University, Occupy London Stock Exchange, St.Pauls, London.
October 2011:
Signs of Revolt – Their Power and Our Power A talk to students at Camberwell College of the Arts, University of the Arts, London.
September 2011:
Presented paper Signs of Revolt, the Sign, the City and Revolution in the 21st Century at Social Change and Design Activism, Design History Society’s annual conference, Fundacio Historia del Diseno University of Barcelona.
August 2011:
Because You’re Worth it-Creative Resistance to a Commodified World Talk presented at Galeria ZPAP, Warsaw, Poland. Supported by the British Council.
December 2010:
Appeared on BBC 3 Counties Radio to discuss the book Green Patriot Posters
December 2010:
Appeared on Graphic Design On The Radio on Resonance FM as part of discussion about the effects of cuts on Art and Design Edcuation.
January 2010:
Sign Wars the struggle for Life against Things in the 21st Century
Paper presented at Graphic Design and Social Responsibility Conference,
Katowice, Poland
November 2009:
The Right to the City visual presentation as part of the Festival of Radical Communication,
Signs of Revolt Exhibition, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane London
May 2009:
Because You’re Worth it-Creative Resistance to a Commodified World
Tactical Media and Culture Jamming in the last ten years.
Visual talk to Fine Art and Graphics students at Central St.Martins College, London.
November 2008:
Because You’re Worth it-Creative Resistance to a Commodified World
Tactical Media and Culture Jamming in the last ten years.
Visual talk at London College of Communication, London.
September 2008:
Part of Panel discussion, A World Where Many Worlds Fit
Taipei Biennial, Taiwan Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.
July 2008:
Presented paper My Space? at New Views 2 Conference
London College of Communication, London.
March 2008:
Speaker as part of panel on Ethics in the Creative Industries
Camberwell College of Arts in conjunction with Eye Magazine, London
Other panelists included: Rick Poyner, Ken Garland.
http://eyediscuss.blogspot.com/
December 2004:
Visual talk Byam Shaw art school, London.
October 2004:
Jamming their Culture, Creating our Own workshop, at the European Social Forum, London.
July 2004:
Sign Wars: The Aesthetics of the Anti-Capitalist Movement paper given at Imaging Social Movements conference, Edge Hill College, Lancashire.
Feb 2004:
Session Chair and speaker, The Aesthetics of the Counter-Globalisation Movement
College Art Association annual conference, Seattle, USA. http://www.collegeart.org
Dec 2003:
Visual talk to MA students, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
November 2003:
Organised Seminar Jamming their Culture, Creating Our Own at the European Social Forum,
Paris, France. http://www.fse-esf.org
May 2003:
Visual talk, photography department, Royal College of Art, London
April 2003:
Visual talk at Byam Shaw art school, London.
March 2003:
Visual talk at Portsmouth University, Portsmouth.
December 2002:
Visual talk at Byam Shaw art school, London.
October 2002:
Panel discussion on the relationship between Art and Politics, as part of the 25 Years after
Stammheim day at the ICA, the Mall, London.
July 2002:
Visual talk at Marxism 2002, London.
March 2002:
Visual talk at Byam Shaw art school, London.
January 2002:
Visual talk at Colombia University, New York.
September 2001:
Visual talk at Austrian Cultural Institute, London.
September 2001:
Organised panel discussion on Creative Resistance at Another World is Possible conference,
Hammersmith Riverside Studios, London.
June 2001:
Panel guest, Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4
May 2001:
Panel guest, Kilroy BBC tv.
November 1998:
Talk at ‘Baby’ Kiezergracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands.