Post.Design

In September 2025 this one-day festival of talks and open conversations in Copenhagen navigated three thematic perspectives, each reflecting on a key stage of the design lifecycle: BEFORE (research & context), DURING (processes & production), and AFTER (systems & interactions).

Speakers: Silvio Lorusso – Stan De Natris (Slavs and Tatars) – Marissa Cohn (ETHOS Lab) – Marie Højlund & Freja Kir (stanza)

Organisers: Alba Carbajo Cano – Lucas Feldstedt – Peter Folkmar – Filip Grønning – Kaiu Meiner – Georgina Norris – Bethany Rigby

2024 – As an way to leave the Tangle open-ended, we commissioned three essays and and an illustration from contributors along the project.

Essayist: Arja Karhumaa – Prem Krishnamurthy – Noam Youngrak Sun
Illustration: Nejc Prah

Editors: Siri Lee Lindskrog – Amanda-Li Kollberg – Peter Folkmar – Bethany Rigby

The Post Design Tangle began in 2022 and was a two year, four city festival with a patchworked online hub. It took us deep into the theme of “entanglement,” unravelling the intersections, interconnections, and invisible strings that give shape to our visual and political surroundings.

Tangle 1 – Practice (Stockholm) speakers: Nejc Prah – Elias Hanzer – Matilda Tjäder – Yehwan Song.

Tangle 2 – Self (Oslo) speakers: Noam Youngrak Son – Laurenz Brunner – Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo & Valentina Martinez (Tenthaus) – Nushin Yazdani – Sophie Douala

Tangle 3 – Community (Copenhagen) speakers: Maya Moumne (Studio Safar) – Kexin Hao – Wang & Söderström – Maša Poljanec (Oaza Kolektiv) – Bijan Berahimi (FISK) – Tommi Vasko (Trojan Horse)

Tangle 4 – Power (Helsinki) speakers: Chiara Di Leone – Manuel Raeder – Noura Tafeche – Laura Pappa – Ryan Waller (Other Means)

Organisers: Johannes Bay – Peter Folkmar – Siri Lee Lindskrog – Amanda-Li Kollberg
Editor: Bethany Rigby

2021 – OPACITY. A thematic evening event discussing the aesthetic dimensions of surveillance capitalism and the potential to subvert the algorithms of social dominance featuring a designer and a film maker.

Speakers: Iyo Bisseck – Stefan Kruse

Organisers: Johannes Bay – Peter Folkmar – Rune Olsen

A four day festival that challenged the place of graphic design, digital design and illustration practice in society, all within a former post(!) office turned museum.

Speakers: Hackers & Designers – Alexis Mark – Johanna Burai – Elham Namvar – Anna Degnbol – Dinamo – Amy Suo Wu – Fraser Muggeridge – Anna Haifisch – Paula Minelgaite – Roel Roscam Abbing / Low-tech Magazine – Anja Kaiser – Charles Broskoski / Are.na – The Rodina

Organisers: Peter Folkmar – Peter Urban

2019 – PROFITS. A thematic evening event discussing different (design) strategies for working with, against, and around neoliberalism and help us imagine a world beyond our existing economic systems featuring a design theorist and a designer.

Speakers: Guy Julier – Johanne Aarup

Organisers: Peter Folkmar – Rune Olsen – Peter Urban

2018 – MANIPULATIONS. A thematic evening event discussing the roles and responsibilities of visual communication in the age of fake news, misinformation and political division featuring an activist, an artist and an illustrator.

Speakers: Sara Andreasson – Maia Kalke Lorentzen – Kristoffer Ørum

Organisers: Peter Folkmar – Rune Olsen – Peter Urban

2018 – SELF-PUBLISHING AND REPRESENTATION. A thematic evening event featuring an editor, an illustrator and a designer.

Speakers: Halfdan Pisket – Isabel Seiffert – Kirstine Leth Schütze (Papercut Issues)

Organisers: Peter Folkmar – Rune Olsen – Peter Urban

A four day festival in Copenhagen focussed on the working life of the visual communicator, the politics of image making and the ethics of design.

Speakers: Støj – Jody Barton & Miss Lotion – Jakob Trollbäck – Alexander Scholz – Wang & Söderström – Byggstudio – Vertigo – Johan F. Krarup – Zero-G – Corinne Gisel – Adrian Shaughnessy – Wrong Studio – Henriette Kruse / The Exposed – Government Digital Service – Lina Forsgren / Feministiska Kommunikationsbyrån – Marie Jacotey – Joakim Drescher – Hardworking Goodlooking

Organisers: Peter Folkmar – Aideen McCole – Peter Urban

Our first four day festival bringing designers, illustrators, image makers and academics of all kinds to Copenhagen.

Speakers: Kate Gibb & Rob ‘Supermundane’ Lowe – Abdul Dube – Eike König & Anne Meekers – Design Activism Research Hub – Andreas Wellnitz – Anna Sofie Mørch Bendixen – Jacob Birch – Simon Væth – Studio Atlant – Lawrence Zeegen – Bob Linney – Louise Sidenius Officin – Hanna Bergman – Hugh Frost – David Foldvari – Maren Karlson – Paul Davis

Organisers: Jody Barton – Peter Folkmar – Aideen McCole