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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“Anthropology Is a Way of Being”
Farah Hallaba on bridging academia and community through participatory research.
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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.
#Epistemic Activism
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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.
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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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#Let’s Talk
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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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Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise
An online fellowship and public program expanding the notion of technology beyond colonial, modernist, and solutionist views!
#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
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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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Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise
An online fellowship and public program expanding the notion of technology beyond colonial, modernist, and solutionist views!
Our events
#Let’s Talk
members
Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 2
Oct 17, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
members
Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise
An online fellowship and public program expanding the notion of technology beyond colonial, modernist, and solutionist views!
#Let’s Talk
members
Let’s Talk About Activist Practices No. 2
Sep 26, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
#Design Educators* Unite!
members
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!
members
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
members
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
News & Collaborations
#News
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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
[https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?
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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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” calls out exclusive and extractivist
#News
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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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#Living Archives
#Living Archives
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“Anthropology Is a Way of Being”
Farah Hallaba on bridging academia and community through participatory research.
#Living Archives
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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.
#Living Archives
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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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#Feminist Curricula
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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.
#Feminist Curricula
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
#Feminist Curricula
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
#Feminist Curricula
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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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#Complaint Collective: Exposing abuse and discrimination in design education.
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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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#Designing Resistance
#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.
#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.
#Designing Resistance
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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
How Argentina’s 35th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Travesti, Intersex, Bisexual, and Non-Binary shapes feminisms in 2022.
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MOTHER TONGUE / מאַמע-לשון / MAME LUSHEN
What designing an interscriptual typeface tells us about legibility, Jewish visual culture and the feeling of inbetweenship.
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“Democracy in Iran Will Arrive Through Women”
Feminist activist Shirin Ebadi discusses why the women-led protests in Iran may herald the regime change.
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“Me All Around You:” Listening Practices In The Digital
Francisca Khamis Giacoman and Tina Omayemi Reden discuss Skype’s heyday, attentive listening, and why there is no “one” digital space.
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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.