We’re so excited to be hosting Israeli designer, artist and peace activist, Mushon Zer-Aviv, who will run a political imagination workshop for us on February 7th from 1pm-5pm, at Publix in Neukölln. Applications are now open until January 17th!
We’ve long been a fan of Mushon’s thoughtful and political artistic interventions, and we’re excited to learn more. You can read more about the methodology behind the workshop here.
Here’s more about him in his own words:
Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, researcher, educator and media activist based in Tel Aviv. His love/hate relationship with data informs his design work, art pieces, activism, research, teaching, workshops & city life. Mushon is currently writing a non-fiction book on Friction and Flow — a political design theory of change. Among Among Mushon’s collaborations, he is the CO-founder of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; Normalizi.ng – discover what normal people look like; the AdNauseam extension – clicking ads so you don’t have to; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop; Mushon also designed the maps for Waze.com and led the design of Localize.city. Mushon is an alumni of Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a senior faculty member at Shenkar School of Engineering and Design.
If you’re looking to cultivate your political imaginations and develop strategies and concrete plans for how you can work towards building anti-fascist futures, we encourage you to join us.
We recommend that you attend the workshop in pairs – this gives you the chance to move discussions or existing work forward, and increases the chances that you will continue working on projects coming out of the workshop.
Fill in the application form by January 17th here, and we'll get back to you by January 22nd with the outcome of your application. We look forward to building and imagining anti-fascist futures with you!