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Annelys de Vet is a designer, researcher, and educator with a practice in long-term, participative design projects engaged in social and political struggles. Annelys initiated the publishing initiative 'Subjective Editions,' mapping regions from the inside out by the inhabitants themselves, including 'Subjective Atlas of Brussels' (2018), and 'Subjective Atlas of Palestine' (2007). She co-founded 'Disarming Design from Palestine,' a thought-provoking design platform developing artisanal products from Palestine. She headed the temporary master's program 'Disarming Design' (2020–2022), focusing on design practices in situations of oppression, which was part of the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, where she was the course director of the MA in Design from 2009 to 2019. Annelys tutors Socio-Political Practices in the master's program at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG). She is doing a PhD in the arts at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG) / ARIA (University of Antwerp), where she will defend her PhD dissertation "Disarming Design, politics of Participatory Practices" in November 2024.

Contact:
annelys.devet@kdg.be

Links
[www.subjectiveeditions.org](www.subjectiveeditions.org) [www.disarmingdesign.com](www.disarmingdesign.com) [www.bureaudevet.be](www.bureaudevet.be) IG: @devetanne