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	:<code>Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>		:<code>Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>

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	::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>		::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>
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	<code> The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.		:<code> The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.
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	<code> Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to. </code>		:<code> Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to. </code>

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	<code>Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>		:<code>Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>

	::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>		::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>

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	Why was my father, who had lived a huge part of his life abroad, more attached to this old Arabic name, while my mother who had lived all her life in Beirut, pulled towards a modern alternative? Perhaps she thought of me leaving the country one day—as all parents in Lebanon do—and that I would need a name that was easy to pronounce or to remember for non-Arab speakers. Etel Adnan, Lebanese writer and poet born in the 1920s, writes of growing up in Beirut in her essay ‘To Write in a Foreign Language,’ that she always heard her father say that she would travel to Germany to be a chemist one day, which became her excuse not to learn Arabic in school. It was quite easy to drop Arabic in a time when French missionaries ran many schools and enforced French as the first language. Adnan’s journey with languages feels all too relevant to my own reflections on the decision-making process of my parents.		Why was my father, who had lived a huge part of his life abroad, more attached to this old Arabic name, while my mother who had lived all her life in Beirut, pulled towards a modern alternative? Perhaps she thought of me leaving the country one day—as all parents in Lebanon do—and that I would need a name that was easy to pronounce or to remember for non-Arab speakers. Etel Adnan, Lebanese writer and poet born in the 1920s, writes of growing up in Beirut in her essay ‘To Write in a Foreign Language,’ that she always heard her father say that she would travel to Germany to be a chemist one day, which became her excuse not to learn Arabic in school. It was quite easy to drop Arabic in a time when French missionaries ran many schools and enforced French as the first language. Adnan’s journey with languages feels all too relevant to my own reflections on the decision-making process of my parents.

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	~~=====Thought:=====~~ <code> The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.		<code> The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.
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	===== Thought:===== <code> Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to. </code>		===== Thought:=====

			<code> Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to. </code>

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	DD mostly made sense and sometimes it didn’t: Disclosing Discomforts, Design Department, Desired Discipline, Decentralized Depictions, Developing Discrepancy, Disassembling Details, Daily Decisions, Dismantling Discourses, Doubting Data, Double Displacement, Disorganized Drama, Daring Dance, Dazzling Days, Diaspora Dialogues, Decolonising Decolonisation, Dutch Design, Dodging Dogma, Depth Dwellers, Distance Decay, Dramatic Dinosaurs, Dear Deviants, Devoted Devices, Detailed Detours, Damned Dadaism, Deployed Desires, Divine Dialects, Dirty Dicks...		DD mostly made sense and sometimes it didn’t: Disclosing Discomforts, Design Department, Desired Discipline, Decentralized Depictions, Developing Discrepancy, Disassembling Details, Daily Decisions, Dismantling Discourses, Doubting Data, Double Displacement, Disorganized Drama, Daring Dance, Dazzling Days, Diaspora Dialogues, Decolonising Decolonisation, Dutch Design, Dodging Dogma, Depth Dwellers, Distance Decay, Dramatic Dinosaurs, Dear Deviants, Devoted Devices, Detailed Detours, Damned Dadaism, Deployed Desires, Divine Dialects, Dirty Dicks...

	===== Thought:===== <code>Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>		===== Thought:=====

			<code>Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>

	::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>		::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>

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	Why was my father, who had lived a huge part of his life abroad, more attached to this old Arabic name, while my mother who had lived all her life in Beirut, pulled towards a modern alternative? Perhaps she thought of me leaving the country one day—as all parents in Lebanon do—and that I would need a name that was easy to pronounce or to remember for non-Arab speakers. Etel Adnan, Lebanese writer and poet born in the 1920s, writes of growing up in Beirut in her essay ‘To Write in a Foreign Language,’ that she always heard her father say that she would travel to Germany to be a chemist one day, which became her excuse not to learn Arabic in school. It was quite easy to drop Arabic in a time when French missionaries ran many schools and enforced French as the first language. Adnan’s journey with languages feels all too relevant to my own reflections on the decision-making process of my parents.		Why was my father, who had lived a huge part of his life abroad, more attached to this old Arabic name, while my mother who had lived all her life in Beirut, pulled towards a modern alternative? Perhaps she thought of me leaving the country one day—as all parents in Lebanon do—and that I would need a name that was easy to pronounce or to remember for non-Arab speakers. Etel Adnan, Lebanese writer and poet born in the 1920s, writes of growing up in Beirut in her essay ‘To Write in a Foreign Language,’ that she always heard her father say that she would travel to Germany to be a chemist one day, which became her excuse not to learn Arabic in school. It was quite easy to drop Arabic in a time when French missionaries ran many schools and enforced French as the first language. Adnan’s journey with languages feels all too relevant to my own reflections on the decision-making process of my parents.

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	<code>		===== Thought:===== <code> Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to. </code>
	~~:'''Thought:'''~~ Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to.
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	====III. How to un-name a collective====		====III. How to un-name a collective====
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	DD mostly made sense and sometimes it didn’t: Disclosing Discomforts, Design Department, Desired Discipline, Decentralized Depictions, Developing Discrepancy, Disassembling Details, Daily Decisions, Dismantling Discourses, Doubting Data, Double Displacement, Disorganized Drama, Daring Dance, Dazzling Days, Diaspora Dialogues, Decolonising Decolonisation, Dutch Design, Dodging Dogma, Depth Dwellers, Distance Decay, Dramatic Dinosaurs, Dear Deviants, Devoted Devices, Detailed Detours, Damned Dadaism, Deployed Desires, Divine Dialects, Dirty Dicks...		DD mostly made sense and sometimes it didn’t: Disclosing Discomforts, Design Department, Desired Discipline, Decentralized Depictions, Developing Discrepancy, Disassembling Details, Daily Decisions, Dismantling Discourses, Doubting Data, Double Displacement, Disorganized Drama, Daring Dance, Dazzling Days, Diaspora Dialogues, Decolonising Decolonisation, Dutch Design, Dodging Dogma, Depth Dwellers, Distance Decay, Dramatic Dinosaurs, Dear Deviants, Devoted Devices, Detailed Detours, Damned Dadaism, Deployed Desires, Divine Dialects, Dirty Dicks...

	<code>		===== Thought:===== <code>Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>
	~~:'''Thought:'''~~ Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>

	::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>		::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>
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	: '''Thought:''' The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.		: '''Thought:''' The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.
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	====II. How to name a revolution====		====II. How to name a revolution====

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	Finally, after two years of deliberation, negotiation, and sometimes acceptance, we acknowledged a lineage of lengthier conversations that emerged when naming events during our time on Disarming Design—such as Diasbura Radio (Dee-yas-bura: Diaspora, with an accent) and Disclosing Discomfort, the title of an exhibition we held at Mediamatic in Amsterdam in November 2021—we finally decided to change the name, opting for the initials DD. It exposed the frustration that came with collective decision-making, the energy that had to be bounced around in order to keep coming up with new ways of coming up with suggestions, on how to make collective decisions, and finally arriving at a name, or the lack-thereof.		Finally, after two years of deliberation, negotiation, and sometimes acceptance, we acknowledged a lineage of lengthier conversations that emerged when naming events during our time on Disarming Design—such as Diasbura Radio (Dee-yas-bura: Diaspora, with an accent) and Disclosing Discomfort, the title of an exhibition we held at Mediamatic in Amsterdam in November 2021—we finally decided to change the name, opting for the initials DD. It exposed the frustration that came with collective decision-making, the energy that had to be bounced around in order to keep coming up with new ways of coming up with suggestions, on how to make collective decisions, and finally arriving at a name, or the lack-thereof.
	DD mostly made sense and sometimes it didn’t: Disclosing Discomforts, Design Department, Desired Discipline, Decentralized Depictions, Developing Discrepancy, Disassembling Details, Daily Decisions, Dismantling Discourses, Doubting Data, Double Displacement, Disorganized Drama, Daring Dance, Dazzling Days, Diaspora Dialogues, Decolonising Decolonisation, Dutch Design, Dodging Dogma, Depth Dwellers, Distance Decay, Dramatic Dinosaurs, Dear Deviants, Devoted Devices, Detailed Detours, Damned Dadaism, Deployed Desires, Divine Dialects, Dirty Dicks. . . .		DD mostly made sense and sometimes it didn’t: Disclosing Discomforts, Design Department, Desired Discipline, Decentralized Depictions, Developing Discrepancy, Disassembling Details, Daily Decisions, Dismantling Discourses, Doubting Data, Double Displacement, Disorganized Drama, Daring Dance, Dazzling Days, Diaspora Dialogues, Decolonising Decolonisation, Dutch Design, Dodging Dogma, Depth Dwellers, Distance Decay, Dramatic Dinosaurs, Dear Deviants, Devoted Devices, Detailed Detours, Damned Dadaism, Deployed Desires, Divine Dialects, Dirty Dicks...

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	:'''Thought:''' Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>		:'''Thought:''' Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>


	::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>		::<small>'''Siwar Kraitem''' is a multi-lingual designer and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her practice moves between graphic design and research-based, self-directed design practice where she questions ‘language’ and multilingualism in times of transformation. She co-founded the language café, a discussion and installation forum for language, semantics, and translation. She recently completed her Masters at the D.D. department (Disarming Design) of the Sandberg Instituut where she is now assistant coordinator at the Design Department.</small>
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	====I. How to understand your name====		====I. How to understand your name====

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	: '''Thought:''' The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.		: '''Thought:''' The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.
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	I watched as thousands flocked to the street, renewing the struggle every week with yet another issue that needed to be addressed—all relevant, all good reasons to refuel a revolution. As I struggled to name it, I resolved my dilemma by not naming it. Instead I decided to name it by descriptively recounting the mini-protests that took a new shape and a new theme every week in the heat of the moment, a “fill-in-the-blanks” revolution. For me, it was, in equal measure, an anti-capitalist revolution, a mental health revolution, a solidarity revolution, a feminist revolution, and perhaps most to the point: a linguistic revolution.		I watched as thousands flocked to the street, renewing the struggle every week with yet another issue that needed to be addressed—all relevant, all good reasons to refuel a revolution. As I struggled to name it, I resolved my dilemma by not naming it. Instead I decided to name it by descriptively recounting the mini-protests that took a new shape and a new theme every week in the heat of the moment, a “fill-in-the-blanks” revolution. For me, it was, in equal measure, an anti-capitalist revolution, a mental health revolution, a solidarity revolution, a feminist revolution, and perhaps most to the point: a linguistic revolution.

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	:: '''Thought:''' The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.		: '''Thought:''' The journey of your name began long before you came into the world. Accept that journey as part of your platonic past—perhaps you can learn something about yourself, your parents, and who you will become through it.
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	::'''Thought:''' Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to.		:'''Thought:''' Is a revolution only allowed to be called as such when it succeeds? These negotiations of language and terminology have laid the groundwork for reflecting on language and means of collective expression. Take ownership of your own terminologies, don’t be afraid to claim the term, own it. Language only transforms when we allow it to.
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	::'''Thought:''' Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>		:'''Thought:''' Framing is just another thinking process. It allowed us to take more agency. Perhaps it’s our way of revolting against the very structures that frame us, the one that names us. In the end, the act of questioning itself is probably more worthwhile than the outcome, whether it does or doesn’t lead to a name. </code>