Annelys de Vet

ANNELYS DEVET (she/her, 1974, NL) is a designer, researcher and educator based near Brussels. Her practice focusses on long-term participative design projects that engage in social and political struggles. She founded the temporary masters programme ‘Disarming Design’ (2019–2022) committed to design practices in situations of oppression, at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam – where she headed the MA in Design from 2009 to 2019. De Vet currently holds a position as PhD researcher at ARIA (Antwerp Research Instituut for the Arts). In 2012 she co-founded the design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’ that fosters thought-provoking design from Palestine. She initiated Subjective Editions that map countries from inside out, from a human perspective; publications include Subjective Atlas of Brussels (2018), Subjective Atlas of Colombia (2015), Subjective Atlas of Pakistan (2018) and Subjective atlas of Amsterdam (forthcoming, 2022). She edited ‘Design Dedication, adaptive mentalities in design education’ (Valiz, 2019) and regularly lectures on topics such as alternative cartography, critical pedagogy, and relational design practices, among others at KASK Ghent, Lasalle Singapore, Design Academy Eindhoven, ISIA Urbino, Fabrica, Bolzano University, Gothenburg University, Polish-Japanese Academy Warsaw, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano Bogota, HEAD Geneva, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Beacon house National University Lahore, Indus Valley School of arts and architecture Karachi, Designskolen Kolding, Granada Center for Visual Anthropology and The Glasgow School of Art.

www.bureaudevet.be
www.subjectiveeditions.org
www.disarmingdesign.com
www.weavingfutures.lu
www.dailydecisions.space
www.uncommonsessions.space