{"id":651,"date":"2016-05-31T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/organisingdiscourse\/?page_id=651"},"modified":"2016-05-31T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T08:58:19","slug":"koko-labs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/organisingdiscourse\/koko-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"KOKO LABS"},"content":{"rendered":"

KOKO LABS<\/strong>
\nDiscursive Platform<\/p>\n

A couse partisipant\u2019s project by: Johanna Tysk<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The path to conflictual harmony, publication<\/p><\/div>\n

KOKO Labs was developed in response to the need to reposition a practice from mainly Graphic Design (with community work\/activism \u201con the side\u201d), to a transdisciplinary practice encompassing art, design and social work. The needs were both internal \u2013 defining and understanding the \u201cdisciplinary positions\u201d and their different roles within a practice, and developing a methodology coming out of those. But also external\/discursive \u2013 communicating a \u201ctransdisciplinary discourse\u201d that can be understood by practitioners across all three fields, including suitable models and formats for knowledge exchange and reflection connected to this \u201cnew discourse\u201d.<\/p>\n

Challenges included finding a \u201ctheme\u201d\/concept\/method to \u201chold\u201d this transdisciplinarity, related to both internal inquiries and knowledge exchange with other practitioners. Also finding a language and a visual identity that communicates across disciplinary boundaries, and finding a way to present previous work in a way that makes sense in relation to where the practice is going.<\/p>\n

Process and outcome<\/p>\n

1. Design and copywriting for a digital platform for KOKO Labs. (Graphic identity, content for
\nabout, projects and bio).
\nIn terms of visual identity, I did research on websites and graphic expressions connected to these fields, to land in my own expression that draws from all these influences, and presents the audience with something new and unexpected. As far as my work, I went over my portfolio since seven years back, edited it according to the current focus of my practice, and \u201cre-wrote\u201d the narrative of my own practice by presenting the work and the topics that fueled them in relation to my current practice.<\/p>\n

2. ‘The path to conflictual harmony \u2013 a dialogue in the conjunction point of art, design and the
\nsocial sphere’ (Initial draft of publication, to be added to and released when launching a
\nwebsite).
\nThe internal process of understanding the \u201cdisciplinary positions\u201d within my practice, started during the spring semester, when I interviewed various professionals from the fields of art and design, to \u201cinform\u201d my own standpoints. This work resulted in an essay where I started exploring a methodology of allowing three versions of my professional self (the designer, the artist and the community organizer) reflect on the same case studies, as well as broader societal issues, through their differing perspectives. During this process, I also started sketching out the transdisciplinary concept of what I later named \u201cConflictual Harmony\u201d \u2013 a space where the tension of differing social, disciplinary or cultural perspectives can be used, not fixed, and seemingly opposing or conflicting elements can \u201cbattle\u201d in a way that allows for fruitful co-creation, learning, and a more just and enlightened way of relating to each other, ourselves and our surrounding world.<\/p>\n

To deepen my own understanding of this concept, and \u201cbuild discourse\u201d engaging professionals from art, design and the social sphere, I invited in a range of professionals to \u201cbattle\u201d, or engage in conversation with me, based on their reference points, professional interests and experiences. As a first step, I had everyone associate freely around the concept of \u201cConflictual Harmony.\u201d I then responded, searching for \u201ccommon ground\u201d in relation to the cross disciplinary and cross-cultural platform I\u00b4m building, and went back and forth a few times, finally editing the material into a coherent conversation for my contributors to approve or edit.<\/p>\n

3. ‘Art x hiphop x social innovation \u2013 a conversation between Stockholm and Atlanta!’ (youtube
\nconversation staged during our workshop with Cenk Dereli).
\nA video conversation moderated by me inviting in three professionals from art\/design\/social innovation in Atlanta, to reflect on the conjunction point of hiphop, art, and the social\/political sphere.<\/p>\n

Download ‘The path to conflictual harmony’ here (PDF)> Conflictual Harmony<\/a>
\nView \u201cArt x hiphop x social innovation \u2013 a conversation between Stockholm and Atlanta!\u201d here (Video)> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5PGyOg3rtM<\/a><\/p>\n

Johanna Tysk<\/strong>, based in Stockholm, operates within and across the fields of art, design and social work. Johanna received her B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta in 2007. Her early professional career includes digital advertising and design for ad agency Publicis Modem in New York, as well as art direction, branding, graphic design and illustrations for a wide range of freelance clients in Stockholm. Clients ranging from national media companies to independent artists and start-up children\u00b4s brand Tr\u00f6stisar, that today sells their first invention Cuddly band-aids in fourteen countries, and has received numerous awards in the US. Since her return to Stockholm in 2008, Johanna has had a strong engagement in grass roots social movements like Love Tensta and StreetG\u00e4ris, where she has explored strategies for social transformation through new forms of organization and communication.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Johanna\u00b4s practice has moved to encompass art and social work, with an expanded notion of design as a process, an approach and a frame work for participation and project management. In 2012, she organized the week-long festival Creative Call, where she connected local suburban groups and established institutions like Moderna Museet and Kulturhuset, to a multidisciplinary group of artists representing the urban creative culture of Atlanta. She has also initiated an on-going project using theatre and theatrical exercises to explore structures and relations connected to issues of immigration and integration, and has lead a number of collective mural paintings with children and youth in collaboration with social practitioners Stadsmissionen and Folkets Hus Fisks\u00e4tra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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