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.
#Politics of Display
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Pastel-Coated Violence
How online culture aestheticizes militarism and oppression through sexualization and hyper-cuteness.
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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We Belong to the Land
Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.
#Feminist Curricula
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أحْرُف وكَلِمَاتْ وقِصَصْ A Multi-Script Type Design Program
Imagining a playground for collective archiving, researching and letter-making.
#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.
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#Futuress Tutorial
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Access for Us: Responding with Care Amidst Precarity
June 14, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Ren Loren Britton
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Diasporic Memories
June 1, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Dorothy Wong Ka Chung, and Benjamin Ryser
#Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices
May 17, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | hosted by Futuress
#Futuress Keynote
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Feminist Webs: Gathering Cyberfeminism(s)
May 11, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Mindy Seu
#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Practices
May 5, 2023 | 2—8 pm EET | Startup Haus, Cairo | with Naïma Ben Ayed, Farah Hallaba, Imad Gebrayel, Iskander Guetta, Sabah ElHadid, and Nadia Mounier
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The Politics of Producing
Apr 20, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Iskander Guetta
#Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk About School II
Apr 19, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | hosted by Futuress
#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Narratives
Apr 13, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | online event | with Farah Hallaba, Nadia Ghanem, Nadia Mounier, 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
#Incomplete Compendia
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An Incomplete Directory of Feminist Bookstores
From fresh new shops to decade old strongholds, these are our community’s favourite places to get books and make friends.
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#Futuress Tutorial
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Access for Us: Responding with Care Amidst Precarity
June 14, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Ren Loren Britton
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Diasporic Memories
June 1, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Dorothy Wong Ka Chung, and Benjamin Ryser
#Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices
May 17, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | hosted by Futuress
#Futuress Keynote
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Feminist Webs: Gathering Cyberfeminism(s)
May 11, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Mindy Seu
#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Practices
May 5, 2023 | 2—8 pm EET | Startup Haus, Cairo | with Naïma Ben Ayed, Farah Hallaba, Imad Gebrayel, Iskander Guetta, Sabah ElHadid, and Nadia Mounier
#Futuress Keynote
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The Politics of Producing
Apr 20, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | with Iskander Guetta
#Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk About School II
Apr 19, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online event | hosted by Futuress
#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Narratives
Apr 13, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | online event | with Farah Hallaba, Nadia Ghanem, Nadia Mounier, 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
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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
News & Collaborations
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A Futuress workshop: Unveiling resistance stories with publisher Onomatopee
To explore possibilities for re-writing design history, the Dutch publisher Onomatopee has organized six HISTORICALL! workshops, one of them facilitated by our very own Futuress co-director Maya Ober. We’ve
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For Us, With Us, By U—a collaboration centering stories from the SWANA region!
How can Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) designers, educators, and researchers imagine transnational identities beyond Western worldviews? This is one of the core questions driving For Us, With Us,
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Futuress at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
“The F*word—Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design” covers a vast range of media, styles, discourses, and contexts in which feminist graphic design has made its mark. The exhibition
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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:
#Living Archives
#Living Archives
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
#Living Archives
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Circling the Circassian Identity
Chronicles of nationless-ness, scattered souls, and fragmented selves.
#Living Archives
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(Re)claiming Archives: استعادة الأرشيف
A palace of memories for collective imagination قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
#Living Archives
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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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#Living Archives
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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
#Feminist Curricula
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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
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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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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?
#Complaint Collective
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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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#Complaint Collective
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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
#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.
#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.
#Designing Resistance
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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.
#Designing Resistance
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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.
#Designing Resistance
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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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#Designing Resistance
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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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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.