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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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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Parda: Of Roots, Curls and Race
A Brazilian’s entangled journey to Black awareness in a whitewashed world.
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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.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Bronze-Verdigris: a Colonial History
Seeking liberty in stolen bowls, historical mansions, deadly wallpapers, and fugitive greens.
#Politics of Display
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Real Activism or Clicks without a Cause?
Our social media experiences are not neutral. How can we engage without fuelling a platform conducive to performative allyship?
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A Picture Breaks a Thousand Binaries
Feb 08, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Floriane Misslin
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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
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Politicizing Design from the Grassroots
Jan 26, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Bibiana Oliveira Serpa
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Decolonizing Fashion
Dec 15, 2022 | 6 pm CET | with Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola and Danielle Harris
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On the Contradictions of Sustainability
Nov 22, 2022 | 6 pm CET | with Danah Abdulla
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Ecologies of Food and Design
Nov 10, 2022 | 6 pm CET | with Gabriela Aquije Zegarra, Mirna Bamieh, and Mayar El Bakry
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On Toxic Relationships: Design and Anthropology
Oct. 25, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Imad Gebrayel
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Decolonizing Typography
June 22, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Aasawari Kulkarni and Naïma Ben Ayed
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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.
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#Futuress Keynote
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A Picture Breaks a Thousand Binaries
Feb 08, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Floriane Misslin
#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
#Futuress Keynote
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Politicizing Design from the Grassroots
Jan 26, 2023 | 6 pm CET | with Bibiana Oliveira Serpa
#Educators In Correspondence
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Decolonizing Fashion
Dec 15, 2022 | 6 pm CET | with Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola and Danielle Harris
#Futuress Keynote
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On the Contradictions of Sustainability
Nov 22, 2022 | 6 pm CET | with Danah Abdulla
#Educators In Correspondence
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Ecologies of Food and Design
Nov 10, 2022 | 6 pm CET | with Gabriela Aquije Zegarra, Mirna Bamieh, and Mayar El Bakry
#Futuress Keynote
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On Toxic Relationships: Design and Anthropology
Oct. 25, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Imad Gebrayel
#Educators In Correspondence
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Decolonizing Typography
June 22, 2022 | 6 pm CEST| with Aasawari Kulkarni and Naïma Ben Ayed
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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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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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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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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