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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.
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Nina Paim
(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland
Maya Ober
(she/her) Anthropologist, Educator and Designer, Tel Aviv-Basel
Cherrypye
(she/her) Creator, Educator & Researcher, Trinidad & Tobago/Switzerland
Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins
(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
Mio Kojima
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Germany/Japan
Naïma Ben Ayed
(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France
Mujgan Abdulzade
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany
Franca López Barbera
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany
Sherine Salla
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt
Iskander Guetta
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco
For Us, With Us, By Us
A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers
Eliot C. Gisel
(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland
Floriane Fo Misslin
(they/them) Researcher & Sociologist, France/United Kingdom
Noemi Parisi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland
Danah Abdulla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.
Tessel ten Zweege
(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands
Keyna Eleison
(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler
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
Imad Gebrayel
(he/him) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Lebanon/Germany
Mayar El Bakry
(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
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Lebogang Mokoena
(they/them) Journalist & Researcher, South Africa
Ghalia Elsrakbi
(she/her) Designer, researcher & educator, Syria/Egypt
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
Sria Chatterjee
(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom
Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton
(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States
Centre Culturel Suisse
Cultural Centre, Exhibition Space, Theatre & Bookshop, France
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
Randa Hadi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States
Tereza Bettinardi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil
Nada Ezzeldin
(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt
Francisca Khamis Giacoman
(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands
The Big Fat Bao
(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India
Ren Loren Britton
(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Germany/in Online Interdependencies
etceteras
Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing, Portugal
Layla Gharib
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom/Iraq
Josefina Vidal
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Chile/United Kingdom
Sloan Leo Cowan
(they/he) Community Designer, Facilitator & Educator, United States
Auge FADU
Student Movement, Argentina
Elizabeth Chin
(she/her) Ethnographer, Maker & Doer, United States/Haiti/Taiwan
Ramia Mazé
(she/her) Design Researcher, United Kingdom
Clara Meliande
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Brazil
Nina Mühlemann
(they/she) Artist & Disability Scholar, Switzerland
Brand-New-Life
Online Magazine, Switzerland
Virginia Silveira
(She/her) Educator & Activist, Argentina
Francisco Quiñones Cuartas
(She/he) Educator, Social Entrepreneur & Activist, Argentina
Nadia Mounier
(she/her) Visual Artist, Egypt
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
Madeleine Morley
(she/her) Writer & Editor, United Kingdom/Germany
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
Pauline Piguet
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Switzerland
Fanny Maurel
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, France
Carolyn Kerchof
(she/her) Writer & Designer, United States
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
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) Graphic Designer, United Kingdom/South 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-Mokoena
(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
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
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
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
Sacha Fortuné
(she/her) Writer & Editor, Trinidad & Tobago
Noura Tafeche
(she/her) Artist & Independent Researcher, Italy/Palestine
Zainab Marvi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher, Illustrator & Educator, Pakistan/Germany
Leonardo de Vasconcelos Santana
(he/him) Designer, wishful Writer & Researcher, Brazil/United Kingdom
Mahmoud Keshavarz
(he/him) Writer & Researcher, Sweden/Iran
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
Eva Jack
(she/her) Artist & Educator, Scotland
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
Antônio Bispo dos Santos
(he/him) Poet, Writer, Teacher & Political Activist, Brazil
Mindy Seu
(she/they), Designer, Technologist & Researcher, United States
Benjamin Ryser & Dorothy Wong Ka Chung 黃加頌 (o!sland)
Artist duo, Hong Kong & Switzerland
Mohamed Gaber
(he/him) Type Designer, Graphic Designer & Visual Artist, Egypt
Maha Akl
(she/her) Type Designer, Egypt
Sahar Afshar
(she/her) Typeface Designer & Printing Historian, Iran/United Kingdom
Victoria Nascimento Veiga
(she/her) Fashion & Shoe Designer, Brazil
Decolonising Design
A group of critical design researchers, artists, and activists
Iany Gayo
(she/her) Designer, Portugal/Mozambique
Napisa Leelasuphapong
(she/her) Graphic designer & Writer, Thailand
Afonso de Matos
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Portugal
Paola De Martin
(she/her) Scholar Activist & Design Historian, Switzerland/Italy
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
(she/her) Architectural researcher, Designer & Performer, Switzerland/ South Africa
Amanda Haas
(she/they) Graphic Designer, Lecturer, Publisher & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Twisha Mehta
(she/they) Researcher and Communications Facilitator
Florencia Fontenla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Argentina
Engy Aly
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Researcher & Curator, Egypt
Solveig Qu Suess
(she/her) Researcher, Filmmaker & Artist, Switzerland/Germany
Geanine Escobar
(she/her) Academic-Activist, Cultural Producer, Audio-Descriptor & Conservator-Restorer, Portugal
Habib Asfar
(he/none) Expressive Arts Practitioner, Relational Artist & Public Health Physician, nomadic
Mara Züst
(she/her) Artist, Cultural Pedagogue & Researcher, Switzerland
Mini-Zine-Library
Community Art Project, nomadic
Noureldin Ahmed
(he/him) Researcher, Egypt
Nadia Ghanem
(she/her) Filmmaker, Egypt
Farah Hallaba
(she/her) Social Anthropologist & Visual Ethnographer
Sabah Elhadid
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Independent Researcher & Graphic Designer, Egypt
Rasha Dakkak
(she/her) Designer & Educator, Palestine
Luba Nomhlekazi Nkiwane
(she/her) Architect & Researcher, Zimbabwe/Malta
Morgan Brown
(he/him) Software Engineer, United States/Germany