Talk and Workshop:
"Wooden Signs, Permanent Post-Its, and Scarf-Wearing Cats: Exploring the Design of Folkets Hus"
Evelina Mohei
Salt Galata
September 21, 2024 14.00 – 17.00
A design work from Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus
Workshop II-III
Stockholm-based graphic designer Evelina Mohei will give a talk on the role of graphic design within social movements as part of the IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program. The presentation will be followed by a workshop addressing the concept of place-based design.
This free-admission program will be held in English. The workshop is limited to 20 participants. Priority will be given to professionals and students in design, art, architecture, and related fields. Please register via this form.
PROGRAM
14.00-14.45 Presentation
Drawing on her recent projects, Mohei will discuss the role of graphic design within the Swedish workers’ movement. She will cover the history and impact of the anarchist magazine Brand, where she contributes as a member of the editorial board, and address the magazine’s strategy for evading censorship while critiquing the state and church in the 1900s. She will highlight the importance of self-operated printing houses in the working-class movement and their influence on graphic design in the People’s Houses known as “Folkets hus.” Interspersed with Mohei’s personal stories about organization and community engagement, the presentation will also include insights from her involvement with redesigning Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus.
15.00-17.00 Workshop
Following the presentation, Mohei will lead a workshop on place-based design, inspired by her work at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. The workshop will invite participants to capture aspects of the Salt Galata building using their phone cameras and share their personal memories associated with the space through writing or sketching. By collaboratively building a narrative about the design of Salt Galata, the participants will explore what the building represents and how that representation might be reimagined.
Evelina Mohei is a graphic designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She has an interest in design within communal spaces, exploring how they evolve over time through the influence of users and how narratives are lost during renewal processes. Currently, Mohei is involved in projects focusing on the signage system at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus and contributes to running a printing house at the autonomous social center Cyklopen. She is also a part of the editorial board of the anarchist magazine Brand.
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Arts. It is aimed at artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art, and architecture.
The IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program is realized in collaboration with Salt and IASPIS and with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
Stockholm-based graphic designer Evelina Mohei will give a talk on the role of graphic design within social movements as part of the IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program. The presentation will be followed by a workshop addressing the concept of place-based design.
This free-admission program will be held in English. The workshop is limited to 20 participants. Priority will be given to professionals and students in design, art, architecture, and related fields. Please register via this form.
PROGRAM
14.00-14.45 Presentation
Drawing on her recent projects, Mohei will discuss the role of graphic design within the Swedish workers’ movement. She will cover the history and impact of the anarchist magazine Brand, where she contributes as a member of the editorial board, and address the magazine’s strategy for evading censorship while critiquing the state and church in the 1900s. She will highlight the importance of self-operated printing houses in the working-class movement and their influence on graphic design in the People’s Houses known as “Folkets hus.” Interspersed with Mohei’s personal stories about organization and community engagement, the presentation will also include insights from her involvement with redesigning Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus.
15.00-17.00 Workshop
Following the presentation, Mohei will lead a workshop on place-based design, inspired by her work at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. The workshop will invite participants to capture aspects of the Salt Galata building using their phone cameras and share their personal memories associated with the space through writing or sketching. By collaboratively building a narrative about the design of Salt Galata, the participants will explore what the building represents and how that representation might be reimagined.
Evelina Mohei is a graphic designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She has an interest in design within communal spaces, exploring how they evolve over time through the influence of users and how narratives are lost during renewal processes. Currently, Mohei is involved in projects focusing on the signage system at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus and contributes to running a printing house at the autonomous social center Cyklopen. She is also a part of the editorial board of the anarchist magazine Brand.
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Arts. It is aimed at artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art, and architecture.
The IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program is realized in collaboration with Salt and IASPIS and with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
