In this episode, Valentina Karga discusses how art and design can help tackle global issues: "In design, we all want to work with making a new object, not recycling an old one (…) we need to put more value on this painstaking effort of maintenance and care." The discussion with Anna Unterstab covers climate anxiety, colonialism in craft and design, sustainability and the links between art, architecture and design. Karga explores how critical thinking, creativity, inclusivity and ethical awareness can be integrated into pedagogy to empower students to address systemic challenges. The dialogue highlights her commitment to co-learning and collaborative methods.

The work of Valentina Karga operates between art, design, architecture and research. It draws together elements of socially engaged practices and speculative experiments that question existing social and physical infrastructures within the realms of energy, economy, and sustainability. She was a fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Science, University of the Arts Berlin, a Saari Fellow in Finland, and in residency at the NTU-CCA in Singapore and the Transmediale’s Vilém Flusser Program in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally. 2018-2024 Valentina Karga has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfbK).

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This episode is hosted by Anna Unterstab, artistic assistant in the Information Design department at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.

→ Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

→ Hurra Hurra Festival

→ Valentina Karga Website

→ Exhibition „The Land Has a Mind to Speak: Sámi Horizons“, in MARKK Hamburg, exhibition design by Juliane Katzer and Anna Unterstab

→ On the colonial notion of the separation of Design, Arts and Crafts: Elisabeth Dori Tunstall: Decolonizing Design: A cultural justice guidebook

→ Well Beings, solo exhibition by Valentina Karga in MK&G Hamburg

→ Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas

→ Indigenous Knowledge and Respectful Design: An Evidence-Based Approach

→ Design Justice Network

→ [Hot Stuff](https://www.designboom.com/design/valentina-karga-hot-stuff-witten-02-08-2017/

→ Critical Design Definition

→ Critical Design FAQ by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

→ Audre Lorde

→ Audre Lorde Project: Breaking Isolation: Self Care and Community Care Tools for our People

→ White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

→ How infrastructure works –

→ „In the same way that birds are related and continue through “nest,” humans are related and continue through “design.”“, from:

→ [Valentina Karga: Hot Stuff (urban school ruhr)]

→ Bücheria, queer and feministist neighbourhood library Wilhelmsburg

→ live action role play ADAPTATION, 2023

→ Extended Library in HFBK

→ Ocean Vuong on Teaching

→ Well Beings in Staatsgallerie Saarbrücken