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.

#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.

#Epistemic Activism
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Who Gets to Design Arabic Typography?
A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.

#Epistemic Activism
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A Canon Misbound: Feminist Lessons in Print
The lack of written accounts about Norwegian graphic design is a chance to question norms and explore non-traditional historiographic methods.

#Designing Resistance
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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.

#Vulnerable Observers
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Parda: Of Roots, Curls and Race
A Brazilian’s entangled journey to Black awareness in a whitewashed world.
Our events

#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Narrative
Apr 13, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | with Farah Hallaba, Nadia Ghanem, Nadia Mounir, and Naïma Ben Ayed


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The Future Is Cooperative
Mar 22, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Cooperativa de Diseño

#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Ontology
Mar 16, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Imad Gebrayel, Iskander Guetta, Rasha Dakkak, and Sabah Elhadid

#Futuress Keynote
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The Promise of Shifting Paradigms
Mar 15, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Cherrypye

#Roundtable
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The Challenge of Decolonization: On Debrahmanizing Design in India
Mar 09, 2023 | 3:30 pm CET | with The Big Fat Bao, Mani Deepa Barla, and Yatharth

#Educators In Correspondence
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Challenging the Universal: On Norm-Criticality in Design
Feb 22, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Hayfaa Chalabi and Loana Gatti

#Futuress Keynote
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A Picture Breaks a Thousand Binaries
Feb 08, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Floriane Misslin

#Futuress Keynote
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Politicizing Design from the Grassroots
Jan 26, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Bibiana Oliveira Serpa


#Pedagogies of Freedom
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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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#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Narrative
Apr 13, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | with Farah Hallaba, Nadia Ghanem, Nadia Mounir, and Naïma Ben Ayed


#Futuress Tutorial
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The Future Is Cooperative
Mar 22, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Cooperativa de Diseño

#For Us, With Us, By Us
members
For Us, With Us, By Us: Ontology
Mar 16, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Imad Gebrayel, Iskander Guetta, Rasha Dakkak, and Sabah Elhadid

#Futuress Keynote
members
The Promise of Shifting Paradigms
Mar 15, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Cherrypye

#Roundtable
members
The Challenge of Decolonization: On Debrahmanizing Design in India
Mar 09, 2023 | 3:30 pm CET | with The Big Fat Bao, Mani Deepa Barla, and Yatharth

#Educators In Correspondence
members
Challenging the Universal: On Norm-Criticality in Design
Feb 22, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Hayfaa Chalabi and Loana Gatti

#Futuress Keynote
members
A Picture Breaks a Thousand Binaries
Feb 08, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Floriane Misslin

#Futuress Keynote
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Politicizing Design from the Grassroots
Jan 26, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Bibiana Oliveira Serpa

Contributors

Nina Paim
(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland

Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins
(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany

Maya Ober
(she/her) Activist, Educator, Designer & Researcher

Cherrypye
(she/her) Designer, Writer & Marketing Strategist, Trinidad & Tobago

Naïma Ben Ayed
(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France

Floriane Misslin
(they/them) Researcher & Sociologist, France/United Kingdom

Danah Abdulla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.

Mio Kojima
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Germany/Japan

Tessel ten Zweege
(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands

Franca López Barbera
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany

Keyna Eleison
(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler

Eliot C. Gisel
(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland

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

Mujgan Abdulzade
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany

Sria Chatterjee
(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom

Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton
(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States

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

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

Imad Gebrayel
(he/him) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Lebanon/Germany

The Big Fat Bao
(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India

For Us, With Us, By Us
A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers

Lebogang Mokoena
(they/them) Journalist & Researcher, South Africa

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

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

Noemi Parisi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland

Pauline Piguet
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Switzerland

Fanny Maurel
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, France

Carolyn Kerchof
(she/her) Writer & Designer, United States

Ghalia Elsrakbi
(she/her) Designer, researcher & educator, Syria/Egypt

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

Centre Culturel Suisse
Cultural Centre, Exhibition Space, Theatre & Bookshop, France

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) South Korean Graphic Designer, United Kingdom/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
(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

Sherine Salla
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt

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

Randa Hadi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States

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

Iskander Guetta
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco

Tereza Bettinardi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil

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

Nada Ezzeldin
(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt

Zainab Marvi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher, Illustrator & Educator, Pakistan/Germany

Leonardo de Vasconcelos Santana
(he/him) Designer, wishful Writer & Researcher, Brazil/United Kingdom

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

Mayar El Bakry
(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt

Eva Jack
(she/her) Artist & Educator, Scotland

Francisca Khamis Giacoman
(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands

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
News & Collaborations

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A small Futuress satellite in Winterthur
For a few hours on November 26, 2022, Futuress unfolded in a real space! Yes, a physical space! Futuress co-director Nina Paim and long-standing Futuress ally Noemi Parisi hosted a

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What can we do better? Share your thoughts!
We reach out to you—our fabulous Futuress community—for your advice and insights. How can Futuress continue to flourish and become financially sustainable? Let us know what we can

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“Cooking with Stories” at the Arquiteturas Film Festival in Porto, Portugal
“Cooking with Stories” by Mayar El-Bakry, Maya Ober, and Romi Lee explores the tales, traditions, and rituals behind anonymously designed cooking tools. Following the preparation of dishes from the South

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A new look and feel: our redesigned website!
Since the beginning of the year, Brazilian designers Tereza Bettinardi and Lucas D’Ascenção have lent their magic to our social media presence. Their beautiful templates help us spotlight our

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Big Bam Boom—We won a Swiss Design Award in the category of mediation!
The multidisciplinary jury who reviewed our work was impressed by the broad range of formats and offerings, including workshops, lectures, fellowships, and of course, our beloved texts. In their words:

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A collaboration with the publishing platform Piseagrama!
We are thrilled to announce our new long-term collaboration: CROSSINGS—TRAVESSIAS. Together with the Brazilian publishing platform Piseagrama, we will be working together to translate into English a series of

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Our team has a new member! Welcome, Franca López Barbera!
Our Futuress team has gone through some c-c-c-c-changes yet again! Sadly, our beloved powerhouse Cherry-Ann Davis has left Futuress to focus on her own research. Cherry has been part of

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Our new public program: Announcing upcoming lectures and panels!
We’re changing the way we structure our learning programs! In addition to the lecture series accompanying our fellowship program and curated under one topic, we will now offer various
#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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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.

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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
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#Feminist Curricula

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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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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.

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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.
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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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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.

#Designing Resistance
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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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“We Are Not Safe:” Platform Censorship And Trauma
Oppressive social structures are coded into our feeds to alienate and harm marginalized identity dissidents in Latin America. How can we fight back?

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What Women Do to Get Around Karachi: Futile or Fertile?
Mutual trust and care as feminist strategies to navigate the public transport and gendered social norms of Pakistan’s largest city.

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My Grandma is Not a Cyborg
On the oppression of everyday objects, and hacking the design gap.
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