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.

Pastel-Coated Violence

Pastel-Coated Violence

How online culture aestheticizes militarism and oppression through sexualization and hyper-cuteness.
We Belong to the Land

We Belong to the Land

Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.
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أحْرُف وكَلِمَاتْ وقِصَصْ A Multi-Script Type Design 
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أحْرُف وكَلِمَاتْ وقِصَصْ A Multi-Script Type Design Program

Imagining a playground for collective archiving, researching and letter-making.
On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design

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.
Who Gets to Design Arabic Typography?

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.

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#Living Archives

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#Feminist Curricula

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

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#Designing Resistance

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