Stories

We publish a wide range of stories on a weekly basis, including articles and essays produced by fellowship participants, transcripted lectures, and original pieces by the Futuress team, often in collaboration with partner organizations.

Learning

We offer a lively monthly program of online workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and networking events around the politics of design.

Community

Our authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed community of mostly womxn and non-binary designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.

Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards

Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards

Suggestions for an intersectional feminist citational practice to visual references.
Automated Precarity and Commodified Time

Automated Precarity and Commodified Time

How AI changes work—from unjust Uber algorithms to psychologically harmful clickwork.
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Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation

Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation

How dominant practices rooted in ableism exclude tactile knowledge and Blind perception in museums.
KUNHÃ PY’A GUASU

KUNHÃ PY’A GUASU

A Guarani Nhandewa anthropologist writes on the courage of Indigenous women and the wisdom of the body.
Dissenting Voices

Dissenting Voices

Typography’s role in the Lebanese sectarian protests.

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#Living Archives: Centering oral history and non-hegemonic historiographies.

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#Feminist Curricula: Reimagining design education as a practice of unlearning and relearning.

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#Complaint Collective: Exposing abuse and discrimination in design education.

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#Designing Resistance: Highlighting the myriad ways in which activism and political opposition are expressed.

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#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS: Translating urgent Afro-Brazilian voices originally published in Portuguese by the Brazilian platform Piseagrama.

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#Epistemic Activism: A deep-dive into the politics of language and knowledge production.

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#Vulnerable Observers: Exploring how the personal is political—from body politics to mental health.

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#Earthshaking: Advocating for environmental justice and exposing extractivst practices.

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#Objects of Interest: Revealing the stories and socio-political implications behind designed objects.

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#Politics of Display: Examining the politics of visibility and invisibility manifested in designed systems.

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#Incomplete Compendia

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#Feminist Findings: Searching for the missing stories of feminist periodicals from the past.

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#Contra-Colonial Colors

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#Letter from the Editors

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