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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The Currency of an Identity: Designing Egyptian Banknotes
In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.
#Incomplete Compendia
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A Resource Hub for Decolonizing Typography
Texts, lectures and other materials that help disrupt the Eurocentric status quo in type design education and practice.
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A Passive Mob: How Video Games Silence Dissent
Often game design enacts protest as something negative or apolitical. How could it instead ignite criticality and political agency?
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Hey Woman, Are You a Roti? Patriarchy and Indian Flatbread
What the making and unmaking of one of India’s most celebrated foods tell us about traditional female roles, unpaid labor, and revolution
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
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#Educators In Correspondence
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Decolonizing Typography
June 22, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Aasawari Kulkarni and Naïma Ben Ayed
#Futuress Keynote
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An Anti-Colonial History of Colors
June 7, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Luiza Prado de O. Martins
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Dear Sister: Mediating Feminist Conflict Before the Internet
May 17, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Bec Wonders
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Recipes from the Pluriverse: Cooking up change in design
May 3, 2022 | 6 pm CEST | with Lesley-Ann Noel
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Activism and Pedagogy
April 26th, 2022 | 6 pm CEST | with Tanveer Ahmed and Lauren Williams
#Roundtable
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Complaint Collective
March 8, 2022 | 6 pm CEST | with ENGAGEMENT ARTS NL, Les Mots de Trop, and The Racial Justice Student Collective.
#Coding Resistance
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Towards Justice, Equity and Accountability in AI
November 19, 2021 | 6 pm CEST | with Timnit Gebru, AI ethics researcher, computer scientist, and activist
#Coding Resistance
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Digital Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
November 12, 2021 | 3 pm CEST | with Marwa Fatafta, digital rights activist and researcher
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Interdependence as a Political Technology
November 05 | 3 pm CEST | with Aimi Hamraie, designer and disability researcher
#Coding Resistance
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Make Time to Take Time
October 30, 2021 | 4 pm CEST | with Morehshin Allahyari, activist, artist, writer, and educator
#Epistemic Activism
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Judging by the Cover: Racial Bias in Design Publishing
Design books are overwhelmingly cis, male, and white. Designers: I dare you to face your bookshelf and check who is—and who isn’t—there.
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#Educators In Correspondence
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Decolonizing Typography
June 22, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Aasawari Kulkarni and Naïma Ben Ayed
#Futuress Keynote
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An Anti-Colonial History of Colors
June 7, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Luiza Prado de O. Martins
#Futuress Keynote
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Dear Sister: Mediating Feminist Conflict Before the Internet
May 17, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Bec Wonders
#Futuress Keynote
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Recipes from the Pluriverse: Cooking up change in design
May 3, 2022 | 6 pm CEST | with Lesley-Ann Noel
#Educators In Correspondence
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Activism and Pedagogy
April 26th, 2022 | 6 pm CEST | with Tanveer Ahmed and Lauren Williams
#Roundtable
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Complaint Collective
March 8, 2022 | 6 pm CEST | with ENGAGEMENT ARTS NL, Les Mots de Trop, and The Racial Justice Student Collective.
#Coding Resistance
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Towards Justice, Equity and Accountability in AI
November 19, 2021 | 6 pm CEST | with Timnit Gebru, AI ethics researcher, computer scientist, and activist
#Coding Resistance
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Digital Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
November 12, 2021 | 3 pm CEST | with Marwa Fatafta, digital rights activist and researcher
#Coding Resistance
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Interdependence as a Political Technology
November 05 | 3 pm CEST | with Aimi Hamraie, designer and disability researcher
#Coding Resistance
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Make Time to Take Time
October 30, 2021 | 4 pm CEST | with Morehshin Allahyari, activist, artist, writer, and educator
News & Collaborations
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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
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“The Void” by Maya Ober republished in The Funambulist!
The Void by Maya Ober has been republished by The Funambulist in their 40th issue! The Funambulist engages with the politics of space and bodies. Through articles, interviews, artworks, design
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“South is Up” by Sherine Salla in the Sign Design Society’s Newsletter!
How do maps represent the world? What ontologies lie behind the seemingly objective design of world maps, and how can the world be imagined otherwise? These are some of many
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“The Dark Side of Pictograms” by Mujgan Abdulzade republished in Femiskop!
The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan were preceded by a series of racist and sexist outrages. These incidents revealed how profoundly sports are embedded in oppressive body norms and
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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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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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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.
#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.
#Designing Resistance
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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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One NO Leads To a Thousand More
Tear gas and transnational solidarity: a letter to Asma, the defiant customs worker at the Port of Suez.
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
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“They are killing us”
How Peruvian designers are reshaping the way we see femicide.
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Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns
Artist Lawrence Lemaoana on coding narratives into textiles and his uneasy relationship with the art world.
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Designing with/against Cherophobia
In search of haps, untrodden paths, and wayward futurities.
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The Labyrinth to the Pomegranate Tree
At the Root of Conformity, Adaptation, and the Cyclical Nature of Change.
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Is There Anyone Reading out There?
A step into 90s Italian fanzine scene: Speed Demon and its queer community.
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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.