12 SEPTEMBER 2025
COPENHAGEN

SPEAKERS


Silvio Lorusso, What Design Can’t Do, 2023, (Book).
Silvio Lorusso with Sebastian Schmieg, A Slice of Pie, Installation, with Kunsthalle Zürich, 2023
Silvio Lorusso, Zoomed Out, Digital Images, 2024.
Silvio Lorusso, Shouldn’t you be working?, Banner, Exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz, Installation, 2024

Silvio Lorusso



Silvio Lorusso is an Italian writer, artist and designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. He published Entreprecariat (Onomatopee) in 2019 and What Design Can’t Do (Set Margins’) in 2023. Lorusso is an assistant professor at the Lusófona University in Lisbon and a tutor at the Information Design department of Design Academy Eindhoven. He holds a Ph.D. in Design Sciences from the Iuav University of Venice.

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Slavs and Tatars, Лук Бук (Look Book), 2022. Installation view at Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee
Slavs and Tatars, Long Lvive Lviv, 2021. Installation view at OP ENHEIM, Wrocław
Slavs and Tatars, installation view at “You to Me, Me to You”, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, 2023
Slavs and Tatars, MERCZbau, 2022. Installation view at Neubauer Collegium Fallery, Chicago

Slavs and Tatars



Slavs and Tatars is an art collective exploring the intersection of language, politics, and identity across Eurasia. Their printed works blend scholarly rigor with playful humor, often merging archival research with bold visual design. Through publications, posters, editions, merch, and ephemera, they challenge cultural assumptions and provoke dialogue across disciplines.

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ETHOS Lab
ETHOS Lab, GDPR Deletion Poems, 2019
ETHOS Lab, Breaking and Making Code, (Book)
Wikipedia article on the Cassini space probe retirement 
ETHOS Lab, Space Crone, Digital Collage

ETHOS Lab



Marisa Cohn is an interdisciplinary researcher who combines ethnographic and critical design to explore the chronopolitics of technologies. Her work examines cultural dimensions of infrastructural decay, software maintenance, and technological obsolescence. She is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and a founding co-director of the ETHOS Lab.

ETHOS Lab is a critical feminist methods laboratory dedicated to experimentation at the intersection of digital methods, ethnographic inquiry, and speculative fabulation. 

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stanza is founded by Marie Højlund, Freja Kir, Line-Gry Hørup and Laura Silke—located in Copenhagen, 2025
Rasmus Myrup, THE VÖLVAS BESTIARY OF BEST FRIENDS, published by s/z and Coda Press, 2023
FULL OF DAYS, Charlottenborg Jubilee, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2023
s/z is stanza’s imprint for independent publishing

stanza



stanza is a project space & studio for critical graphic design & publishing in Copenhagen run collectively by Line-Gry Hørup, Laura Silke, Marie Højlund, and Freja Kir. Through various formats such as exhibitions, talks, screenings, and presentations, stanza manifests and critically explores publishing as an independent artistic praxis.

For DESIGN AFTER DESIGN Marie Højlund and Freja Kir will unfold the three-fold structure of stanza, gathering insights on the organisational structures of the studio as both an individual support structure, collective unit and distributing platform.

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