As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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Kusvikirwa: A Decolonial Spirit
Reconnecting with the past through ancestral practices in Zimbabwe.
#Designing Resistance
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On Rehearsing Access
Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders.
#Designing Resistance
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Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production
How cartoneros in Buenos Aires paved the way to social and environmental sustainability.
#Feminist Curricula
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
#Designing Resistance
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A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 2
Oct 17, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
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Let’s Talk About Activist Practices No. 2
Sep 26, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Mocha Celis: We Dare to Build the World We Want to Live In
July 4, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture with Francisco Quiñones Cuartas and Virginia Silveira from Mocha Celis | co-moderated with Paulina Ojeda
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Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care
June 19, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Nina Mühlemann
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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 1
June 15, 2024 | 1:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | group conversation | co-moderated with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
#Educators In Correspondence
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Design as Mediation: On the Everyday Politics of Space-Making Practices
June 15, 2024 | 5:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
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Design and Other Ways of Knowing
June 13, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Ramia Mazé
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Feminist Killjoy Design Pedagogy: On Emphasizing Joy
June 6, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Elizabeth Chin
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On Autoethnographic Filmmaking
May 25, 2024 | 4 pm CEST | online and at InfoSpace Basel, Switzerland | free | with Solveig Qu Suess | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
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“Stretching the Meaning of Public Space”
Nadia Mounier on documenting Cairo, gender politics, and the tensions of image-making in a changing Egypt.
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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 2
Oct 17, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
#Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk About Activist Practices No. 2
Sep 26, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Mocha Celis: We Dare to Build the World We Want to Live In
July 4, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture with Francisco Quiñones Cuartas and Virginia Silveira from Mocha Celis | co-moderated with Paulina Ojeda
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care
June 19, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Nina Mühlemann
#Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 1
June 15, 2024 | 1:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | group conversation | co-moderated with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
#Educators In Correspondence
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Design as Mediation: On the Everyday Politics of Space-Making Practices
June 15, 2024 | 5:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Design and Other Ways of Knowing
June 13, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Ramia Mazé
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Feminist Killjoy Design Pedagogy: On Emphasizing Joy
June 6, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Elizabeth Chin
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On Autoethnographic Filmmaking
May 25, 2024 | 4 pm CEST | online and at InfoSpace Basel, Switzerland | free | with Solveig Qu Suess | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
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Nina Paim
(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland
Maya Ober
(she/her) Anthropologist, Educator and Designer, Tel Aviv-Basel
Cherrypye
(she/her) Creator, Educator & Researcher, Trinidad & Tobago/Switzerland
Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins
(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
Mio Kojima
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Germany/Japan
Naïma Ben Ayed
(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France
Mujgan Abdulzade
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany
Franca López Barbera
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany
Sherine Salla
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt
Iskander Guetta
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco
For Us, With Us, By Us
A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers
Eliot C. Gisel
(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland
Floriane Fo Misslin
(they/them) Researcher & Sociologist, France/United Kingdom
Noemi Parisi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland
Danah Abdulla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.
Tessel ten Zweege
(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands
Keyna Eleison
(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler
Heba Daghistani
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
Isabel Duarte
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Portugal/United Kingdom
Sophie Thurner
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
Imad Gebrayel
(he/him) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Lebanon/Germany
Mayar El Bakry
(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Lebogang Mokoena
(they/them) Journalist & Researcher, South Africa
Ghalia Elsrakbi
(she/her) Designer, researcher & educator, Syria/Egypt
Evan Nicole Brown
(she/her) Writer, Reporter & Editor, United States
Hayfaa Chalabi
(she/her) Designer & Illustrator, Iraq/London
Neo Maditla
(she/her) Journalist, Editor & Content Strategist, South Africa
Sria Chatterjee
(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom
Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton
(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States
Centre Culturel Suisse
Cultural Centre, Exhibition Space, Theatre & Bookshop, France
Inteza Shariar
(he/him) Architect, Designer & Artist, Bangladesh
Dries Rodet
(he/him) Architect, France/Belgium/Switzerland
Diana Campbell Betancourt
(she/her) Curator & Researcher, Brussels/Dhaka
Prem Krishnamurthy
(he/him) Designer, Curator, Writer & Teacher, Germany/United States
Les Mots de Trop
Activism & Graphic Design Collective, France
Lucas LaRochelle
(they/them) Designer & Researcher, Canada
Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Fashion Curator, Creative Producer, African Fashion Advocate & Lecturer, Uganda/Germany
Lauren Williams
(she/her) Designer, Organizer, Researcher & Educator, United States
Tai Linhares
(she/her) Designer, Filmmaker & Visual Artist, Brazil/Germany
Bec Wonders
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Illustrator, UK/Canada
Tanveer Ahmed
(she/her) Design Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom
Randa Hadi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States
Tereza Bettinardi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil
Nada Ezzeldin
(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt
Francisca Khamis Giacoman
(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands
The Big Fat Bao
(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India
Ren Loren Britton
(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Germany/in Online Interdependencies
etceteras
Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing, Portugal
Layla Gharib
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom/Iraq
Josefina Vidal
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Chile/United Kingdom
Sloan Leo Cowan
(they/he) Community Designer, Facilitator & Educator, United States
Auge FADU
Student Movement, Argentina
Elizabeth Chin
(she/her) Ethnographer, Maker & Doer, United States/Haiti/Taiwan
Ramia Mazé
(she/her) Design Researcher, United Kingdom
Clara Meliande
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Brazil
Nina Mühlemann
(they/she) Artist & Disability Scholar, Switzerland
Brand-New-Life
Online Magazine, Switzerland
Virginia Silveira
(She/her) Educator & Activist, Argentina
Francisco Quiñones Cuartas
(She/he) Educator, Social Entrepreneur & Activist, Argentina
Nadia Mounier
(she/her) Visual Artist, Egypt
Bruna Benevides
(she/her) Activist, Brazil
Sophia Yuet See
(they/them) Multimedia artist, United Kingdom/Austria
Mariachiara De Leo
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Italy
Madeleine Morley
(she/her) Writer & Editor, United Kingdom/Germany
Zenobia Ahmed
(she/her) Graphic designer & Researcher, Australia
Phoebe Eustance
(they/them) Interdisciplinary Artist-Researcher, United Kingdom
Yanchi Huang
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Taiwan/United States
Pauline Piguet
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Switzerland
Fanny Maurel
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, France
Carolyn Kerchof
(she/her) Writer & Designer, United States
Amy Gowen
(she/her) Researcher, Writer, Editor & Curator, United Kingdom/The Netherlands
Barbora Demovičová
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Slovakia/Germany
Klaudia Mazur
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany
Eugénie Zuccarelli
(she/her) Designer, France
Dorsa Javaherian
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Iran/Germany
Luana de Almeida
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
Helena Ramos
(she/her) Cultural Manager & Producer, Brazil
Clara Amante
(she/her) Researcher, Author & Organizer, Portugal
Delphine Bedel
(she/her) Artist, Lecturer, Writer & Publisher, France/The Netherlands
Nina Reis
(she/her) Designer and Researcher, Brazil
Sabrina Stallone
(she/her) Social Anthropologist, Switzerland
Katharina Brenner
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
Silva Baum
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany
Loraine Furter
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Belgium
Elham Namvar
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
Maryam Fanni
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Educator & Researcher, Sweden
Elio Raimondi
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Italy
Vittoria Pugliese
(she/her) Furniture Designer, Italy
Edna Bonhomme
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Interdisciplinary Artist, United States/Germany
Uzma Rizvi
(she/her) Anthropological Archaeologist, Cultural Archaeologist & Curator, Pakistan/United States
Bahia Shehab
(she/her) Multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Activist & Historian, Egypt
Fiona Cameron
(she/her) Researcher, Curator & Activist Academic
Ramaya Tegegne
(she/her)Artist & Cultural Organizer, Switzerland
Lucia Pietroiusti
(she/her) Curator & Researcher
Rhys Atkinson
Graphic Designer, United Kingdom
Riccardo Righi
(he/him) Designer and Researcher, Italy/United Kingdom
Charlie Thomas
(they/them) Writer & Designer, France
Ece Canlı
(she/her) Researcher, Artist & Musician, Portugal/Turkey
Mauricio Vargas
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, United States
Michael Bojkowski
(he/him) Designer, Writer & Educator, Australia
Rachel So Dam Jung
(she/her) Graphic Designer, United Kingdom/South Korea
Aimi Hamraie
(they/them) Designer & Disability Researcher, Iran/United States
Marwa Fatafta
(she/her) Digital Rights Activist & Researcher, Palestine/Germany
Morehshin Allahyari
(she/her) Activist, Artist, Writer & Educator, Iran/United States
Maryam Mustafa
(she/her) Computer Scientist & Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, Pakistan
Timnit Gebru
(she/her) AI Ethics Researcher, Computer Scientist & Activist, United States
Minna Salami
(she/her) Writer, Feminist Theorist & Lecturer, Nigeria/Finland/Sweden
Iyo Bisseck
(she/her) Activist, Designer, Researcher & Artist, France/Cameroon
Nakeema Stefflbauer
(she/her) Technology Researcher, United States/Germany
Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena
(she/her) Writer, Researcher & Educator, Germany/Sweden
Laya Chirravuru
(she/her) Fashion Designer & Researcher, India/Germany
Nina Jun Yuchi
(she/her) Designer, United States/Narragansett Land
Amelie Goldfuß
(she/her) Artist, Designer & Educator, Germany
Natalie Sontopski
(she/her) Sociologist, Historian & Researcher, Germany
Adriana Rojas Víquez
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom
Abigail Schreider
(she/her) Service Designer, Argentina/Germany
Dior Thiam
(she/her) Visual Artist, Germany
Naiara Yumiko
(she/her) Urban Designer & Creative Artworker, Brazil/United Kingdom
Carlotta Trippa
(she/her) Architect & Urban Designer, Italy/United Kingdom
Carmem Saito
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany/UK
Javier Syquia
(he/him) Designer, USA/Hong Kong/Philippines
Johanna Lewengard
(she/her) Communication Designer & Educator, Sweden
Benedetta Crippa
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Sweden
Engagement Arts NL
Artist-led Movement, The Netherlands
The Racial Justice Student Collective
Student Collective, Switzerland
Gráinne Donohue
(she/her) Organizer & Researcher, France
Ritupriya Basu
(she/her) Design Writer, India
Maria Kruglyak
(she/her) Researcher, Editor & Artist, Portugal/Russia/United Kingdom
Zoy Anastassakis
(she/her) Designer & Anthropologist, Brazil
Griselda Flesler
(she/her) Researcher & Educator, Argentina
Lesley-Ann Noel
(she/her) Design Educator, United States/Trinidad & Tobago
Divya Rathod
(she/her) Landscape Architect & Design Researcher, India/Germany
Mariangela Beccoi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Italy/Germany
Sinem Görücü
(she/her) Architect, Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom/Turkey
Jerá Guarani
(she/her) Educator, Activist & Leader, Tenondé Porã Indigenous Land
Aasawari Kulkarni
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Writer, USA/India
Pallavi Keshri
(she/her) Visual Artist & Communication Designer, India/Switzerland
Eva Gonçalves
(she/her) Graphic designer, Researcher & Educator, Portugal/Germany
Hamza Bashandy
(he/him) Architect & Game Designer
Sacha Fortuné
(she/her) Writer & Editor, Trinidad & Tobago
Noura Tafeche
(she/her) Artist & Independent Researcher, Italy/Palestine
Zainab Marvi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher, Illustrator & Educator, Pakistan/Germany
Leonardo de Vasconcelos Santana
(he/him) Designer, wishful Writer & Researcher, Brazil/United Kingdom
Mahmoud Keshavarz
(he/him) Writer & Researcher, Sweden/Iran
Isabella Barroso
(she/her) Bruxa-ciborgue, Technologist, Researcher & Journalist, Brazil
Mirna Bamieh
(she/her) Artist, Palestine
Gabriela Aquije Zegarra
(she/her) Architect & Researcher, Switzerland/Peru
Eva Jack
(she/her) Artist & Educator, Scotland
Tina Omayemi Reden
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Switzerland
Amanda Lorentzon
(she/her/non) Transdisciplinary Designer, Sweden/United States
Orly Noy
(she/her) Editor, Activist & Translator, Iran/Israel
Shirin Ebadi
(she/her) Activist & Lawyer, Iran/United Kingdom
Danielle Harris
(she/they) Fashion Designer & Educator, Switzerland
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa
(she/her) Design Researcher, Educator & Activist, Brazil
Isabelle Winkler
(she/her) Writer & Editor, Germany/Australia
Veronika Larsson
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Writer, Sweden
Vera Sacchetti
(she/her) Design Critic & Curator, Portugal/Switzerland
Karoline Buer
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Norway
Loana Gatti
(she/her) Pluridisciplinary Artist & Researcher, Switzerland
Mani Deepa Barla
(she/her) Industrial Designer, India
Yatharth
(he/him) Researcher, India
Cooperativa de Diseño
Political Design Organization, Argentina
Antônio Bispo dos Santos
(he/him) Poet, Writer, Teacher & Political Activist, Brazil
Mindy Seu
(she/they), Designer, Technologist & Researcher, United States
Benjamin Ryser & Dorothy Wong Ka Chung 黃加頌 (o!sland)
Artist duo, Hong Kong & Switzerland
Mohamed Gaber
(he/him) Type Designer, Graphic Designer & Visual Artist, Egypt
Maha Akl
(she/her) Type Designer, Egypt
Sahar Afshar
(she/her) Typeface Designer & Printing Historian, Iran/United Kingdom
Victoria Nascimento Veiga
(she/her) Fashion & Shoe Designer, Brazil
Decolonising Design
A group of critical design researchers, artists, and activists
Iany Gayo
(she/her) Designer, Portugal/Mozambique
Napisa Leelasuphapong
(she/her) Graphic designer & Writer, Thailand
Afonso de Matos
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Portugal
Paola De Martin
(she/her) Scholar Activist & Design Historian, Switzerland/Italy
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
(she/her) Architectural researcher, Designer & Performer, Switzerland/ South Africa
Amanda Haas
(she/they) Graphic Designer, Lecturer, Publisher & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Twisha Mehta
(she/they) Researcher and Communications Facilitator
Florencia Fontenla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Argentina
Engy Aly
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Researcher & Curator, Egypt
Solveig Qu Suess
(she/her) Researcher, Filmmaker & Artist, Switzerland/Germany
Geanine Escobar
(she/her) Academic-Activist, Cultural Producer, Audio-Descriptor & Conservator-Restorer, Portugal
Habib Asfar
(he/none) Expressive Arts Practitioner, Relational Artist & Public Health Physician, nomadic
Mara Züst
(she/her) Artist, Cultural Pedagogue & Researcher, Switzerland
Mini-Zine-Library
Community Art Project, nomadic
Noureldin Ahmed
(he/him) Researcher, Egypt
Nadia Ghanem
(she/her) Filmmaker, Egypt
Farah Hallaba
(she/her) Social Anthropologist & Visual Ethnographer
Sabah Elhadid
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Independent Researcher & Graphic Designer, Egypt
Rasha Dakkak
(she/her) Designer & Educator, Palestine
Luba Nomhlekazi Nkiwane
(she/her) Architect & Researcher, Zimbabwe/Malta
Morgan Brown
(he/him) Software Engineer, United States/Germany
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A glimpse into Futuress’ endeavors in “Publishing Anecdotes”
In July, co-director Mio Kojima talked about her journey at Futuress in a
conversation with graphic designer, researcher, and cultural worker Roman Karrer
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“A Critical Statement” by Sophie Thurner republished by the WOMAN OPEN TECH LAB!
First published on Futuress in February 2022, “A Critical Statement
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Futuress unveiled at the Type Electives lecture series
On April 19, 2024, Futuress co-director Maya Ober shared some behind-the-scenes
of Futuress within the Type Electives
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Futuress featured in the debut issue of Troublemakers Magazine
We are honored to be part of the very first issue of the Tokyo-based independent
magazine Troublemakers [https://troublemakers.me/]! In September 2023,
Troublemaker co-founders Manami Inoue and Yuto Miyamoto
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Futuress showcased at Ravisius Textor, France!
Futuress was featured in the exhibition, reading room, and public program “
Voltolo—all-around education in contemporary graphic design practices.
[https://www.ravisiustextor.eu/spativm/voltolo]” Curated by designer Alexandru
Balgiu,
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Launching Design Educators* Unite—a lecture series sharing feminist practices from within
We are thrilled to share the launch of our latest online learning initiative,
Design Educators* Unite [https://futuress.org/learning/design-educators-unite/]
—a program specifically crafted for design educators, researchers, and
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Etceteras festival—a collaboration immersing into feminist design and publishing!
October 2023 was all about the long-awaited and fantabulous in-person event
etceteras— feminist festival of design and publishing
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On-site and online—creating spaces to meet and learn
Thanks to Switzerland’s Culture Department of Kanton Basel-City, we’ve secured a
generous grant for a brand new edition of monthly Futuress Tutorials and Let’s
Talk events! Until
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“Stretching the Meaning of Public Space”
Nadia Mounier on documenting Cairo, gender politics, and the tensions of image-making in a changing Egypt.
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
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Circling the Circassian Identity
Chronicles of nationless-ness, scattered souls, and fragmented selves.
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(Re)claiming Archives: استعادة الأرشيف
A palace of memories for collective imagination
قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
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A Race Against Time
How the digital gallery Swatch Bharat is documenting the rapidly disappearing native Indian aesthetic.
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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
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أحْرُف وكَلِمَاتْ وقِصَصْ A Multi-Script Type Design Program
Imagining a playground for collective archiving, researching and letter-making.
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
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“Teach What You Need to Learn”
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
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The Last Shift
Field notes from La Entrega Final, or how feminist activism plays itself in the Chair of Design and Gender Studies at FADU, Buenos Aires.
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
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Enough is Enough
Art & Design students lead the charge to expose the abusive underbelly of France's education system.
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Long Nights
Do art universities educate students to exploit themselves? Short answer: Yes.
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
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Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions
An anonymous Instagram account cries for accountability in the Dutch art and design scene. What happens next?
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
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On Rehearsing Access
Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders.
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Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production
How cartoneros in Buenos Aires paved the way to social and environmental sustainability.
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A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
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On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design
What using a debrahaminizing lens tells us about power relations and discrimination in the Indian design practice and education.
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Multiple Feminisms, Collective Struggles
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