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.

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.

Click on each Community member and check their profiles and articles!
Nina Paim

Nina Paim

(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland
Maya Ober

Maya Ober

(she/her) Anthropologist, Educator and Designer, Tel Aviv-Basel
Cherrypye

Cherrypye

(she/her) Creator, Educator & Researcher, Trinidad & Tobago/Switzerland
Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins

Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins

(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
Mio Kojima

Mio Kojima

(she/her) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Germany/Japan
Naïma Ben Ayed

Naïma Ben Ayed

(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France
Mujgan Abdulzade

Mujgan Abdulzade

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany
Franca López Barbera

Franca López Barbera

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany
Sherine Salla

Sherine Salla

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt
Iskander Guetta

Iskander Guetta

(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco
For Us, With Us, By Us

For Us, With Us, By Us

A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers
Eliot C. Gisel

Eliot C. Gisel

(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland
Floriane Fo Misslin

Floriane Fo Misslin

(they/them) Researcher & Sociologist, France/United Kingdom
Noemi Parisi

Noemi Parisi

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland
Danah Abdulla

Danah Abdulla

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.
Tessel ten Zweege

Tessel ten Zweege

(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands
Keyna Eleison

Keyna Eleison

(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler
Heba Daghistani

Heba Daghistani

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
Isabel Duarte

Isabel Duarte

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Portugal/United Kingdom
Sophie Thurner

Sophie Thurner

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
Imad Gebrayel

Imad Gebrayel

(he/him) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Lebanon/Germany
Mayar El Bakry

Mayar El Bakry

(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Lebogang Mokoena

Lebogang Mokoena

(they/them) Journalist & Researcher, South Africa
Ghalia Elsrakbi

Ghalia Elsrakbi

(she/her) Designer, researcher & educator, Syria/Egypt
Evan Nicole Brown

Evan Nicole Brown

(she/her) Writer, Reporter & Editor, United States
Hayfaa Chalabi

Hayfaa Chalabi

(she/her) Designer & Illustrator, Iraq/London
Neo Maditla

Neo Maditla

(she/her) Journalist, Editor & Content Strategist, South Africa
Sria Chatterjee

Sria Chatterjee

(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom
Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton

Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton

(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States
Centre Culturel Suisse

Centre Culturel Suisse

Cultural Centre, Exhibition Space, Theatre & Bookshop, France
Inteza Shariar

Inteza Shariar

(he/him) Architect, Designer & Artist, Bangladesh
Dries Rodet

Dries Rodet

(he/him) Architect, France/Belgium/Switzerland
Diana Campbell Betancourt

Diana Campbell Betancourt

(she/her) Curator & Researcher, Brussels/Dhaka
Prem Krishnamurthy

Prem Krishnamurthy

(he/him) Designer, Curator, Writer & Teacher, Germany/United States
Les Mots de Trop

Les Mots de Trop

Activism & Graphic Design Collective, France
Lucas LaRochelle

Lucas LaRochelle

(they/them) Designer & Researcher, Canada
Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola

Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola

(she/her) Interdisciplinary Fashion Curator, Creative Producer, African Fashion Advocate & Lecturer, Uganda/Germany
Lauren Williams

Lauren Williams

(she/her) Designer, Organizer, Researcher & Educator, United States
Tai Linhares

Tai Linhares

(she/her) Designer, Filmmaker & Visual Artist, Brazil/Germany
Bec Wonders

Bec Wonders

(she/her) Historian, Writer & Illustrator, UK/Canada
Tanveer Ahmed

Tanveer Ahmed

(she/her) Design Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom
Randa Hadi

Randa Hadi

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States
Tereza Bettinardi

Tereza Bettinardi

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil
Nada Ezzeldin

Nada Ezzeldin

(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt
Francisca Khamis Giacoman

Francisca Khamis Giacoman

(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands
The Big Fat Bao

The Big Fat Bao

(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India
Ren Loren Britton

Ren Loren Britton

(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Germany/in Online Interdependencies
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Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing, Portugal
Layla Gharib

Layla Gharib

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom/Iraq
Josefina Vidal

Josefina Vidal

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Chile/United Kingdom
Sloan Leo Cowan

Sloan Leo Cowan

(they/he) Community Designer, Facilitator & Educator, United States
Auge FADU

Auge FADU

Student Movement, Argentina
Elizabeth Chin

Elizabeth Chin

(she/her) Ethnographer, Maker & Doer, United States/Haiti/Taiwan
Ramia Mazé

Ramia Mazé

(she/her) Design Researcher, United Kingdom
Clara Meliande

Clara Meliande

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Brazil
Nina Mühlemann

Nina Mühlemann

(they/she) Artist & Disability Scholar, Switzerland
Brand-New-Life

Brand-New-Life

Online Magazine, Switzerland
Virginia Silveira

Virginia Silveira

(She/her) Educator & Activist, Argentina
Francisco Quiñones Cuartas

Francisco Quiñones Cuartas

(She/he) Educator, Social Entrepreneur & Activist, Argentina
Nadia Mounier

Nadia Mounier

(she/her) Visual Artist, Egypt
Bruna Benevides

Bruna Benevides

(she/her) Activist, Brazil
Sophia Yuet See

Sophia Yuet See

(they/them) Multimedia artist, United Kingdom/Austria
Mariachiara De Leo

Mariachiara De Leo

(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Italy
Madeleine Morley

Madeleine Morley

(she/her) Writer & Editor, United Kingdom/Germany
Zenobia Ahmed

Zenobia Ahmed

(she/her) Graphic designer & Researcher, Australia
Phoebe Eustance

Phoebe Eustance

(they/them) Interdisciplinary Artist-Researcher, United Kingdom
Yanchi Huang

Yanchi Huang

(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Taiwan/United States
Pauline Piguet

Pauline Piguet

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Switzerland
Fanny Maurel

Fanny Maurel

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, France
Carolyn Kerchof

Carolyn Kerchof

(she/her) Writer & Designer, United States
Amy Gowen

Amy Gowen

(she/her) Researcher, Writer, Editor & Curator, United Kingdom/The Netherlands
Barbora Demovičová

Barbora Demovičová

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Slovakia/Germany
Klaudia Mazur

Klaudia Mazur

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany
Eugénie Zuccarelli

Eugénie Zuccarelli

(she/her) Designer, France
Dorsa Javaherian

Dorsa Javaherian

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Iran/Germany
Luana de Almeida

Luana de Almeida

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
Helena Ramos

Helena Ramos

(she/her) Cultural Manager & Producer, Brazil
Clara Amante

Clara Amante

(she/her) Researcher, Author & Organizer, Portugal
Delphine Bedel

Delphine Bedel

(she/her) Artist, Lecturer, Writer & Publisher, France/The Netherlands
Nina Reis

Nina Reis

(she/her) Designer and Researcher, Brazil
Sabrina Stallone

Sabrina Stallone

(she/her) Social Anthropologist, Switzerland
Katharina Brenner

Katharina Brenner

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
Silva Baum

Silva Baum

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany
Loraine Furter

Loraine Furter

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Belgium
Elham Namvar

Elham Namvar

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
Maryam Fanni

Maryam Fanni

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Educator & Researcher, Sweden
Elio Raimondi

Elio Raimondi

(he/him) Graphic Designer, Italy
Vittoria Pugliese

Vittoria Pugliese

(she/her) Furniture Designer, Italy
Edna Bonhomme

Edna Bonhomme

(she/her) Historian, Writer & Interdisciplinary Artist, United States/Germany
Uzma Rizvi

Uzma Rizvi

(she/her) Anthropological Archaeologist, Cultural Archaeologist & Curator, Pakistan/United States
Bahia Shehab

Bahia Shehab

(she/her) Multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Activist & Historian, Egypt
Fiona Cameron

Fiona Cameron

(she/her) Researcher, Curator & Activist Academic
Ramaya Tegegne

Ramaya Tegegne

(she/her)Artist & Cultural Organizer, Switzerland
Lucia Pietroiusti

Lucia Pietroiusti

(she/her) Curator & Researcher
Rhys Atkinson

Rhys Atkinson

Graphic Designer, United Kingdom
Riccardo Righi

Riccardo Righi

(he/him) Designer and Researcher, Italy/United Kingdom
Charlie Thomas

Charlie Thomas

(they/them) Writer & Designer, France
Ece Canlı

Ece Canlı

(she/her) Researcher, Artist & Musician, Portugal/Turkey
Mauricio Vargas

Mauricio Vargas

(he/him) Designer & Researcher, United States
Michael Bojkowski

Michael Bojkowski

(he/him) Designer, Writer & Educator, Australia
Rachel So Dam Jung

Rachel So Dam Jung

(she/her) Graphic Designer, United Kingdom/South Korea
Aimi Hamraie

Aimi Hamraie

(they/them) Designer & Disability Researcher, Iran/United States
Marwa Fatafta

Marwa Fatafta

(she/her) Digital Rights Activist & Researcher, Palestine/Germany
Morehshin Allahyari

Morehshin Allahyari

(she/her) Activist, Artist, Writer & Educator, Iran/United States
Maryam Mustafa

Maryam Mustafa

(she/her) Computer Scientist & Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, Pakistan
Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru

(she/her) AI Ethics Researcher, Computer Scientist & Activist, United States
Minna Salami

Minna Salami

(she/her) Writer, Feminist Theorist & Lecturer, Nigeria/Finland/Sweden
Iyo Bisseck

Iyo Bisseck

(she/her) Activist, Designer, Researcher & Artist, France/Cameroon
Nakeema Stefflbauer

Nakeema Stefflbauer

(she/her) Technology Researcher, United States/Germany
Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena

Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena

(she/her) Writer, Researcher & Educator, Germany/Sweden
Laya Chirravuru

Laya Chirravuru

(she/her) Fashion Designer & Researcher, India/Germany
Nina Jun Yuchi

Nina Jun Yuchi

(she/her) Designer, United States/Narragansett Land
Amelie Goldfuß

Amelie Goldfuß

(she/her) Artist, Designer & Educator, Germany
Natalie Sontopski

Natalie Sontopski

(she/her) Sociologist, Historian & Researcher, Germany
Adriana Rojas Víquez

Adriana Rojas Víquez

(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom
Abigail Schreider

Abigail Schreider

(she/her) Service Designer, Argentina/Germany
Dior Thiam

Dior Thiam

(she/her) Visual Artist, Germany
Naiara Yumiko

Naiara Yumiko

(she/her) Urban Designer & Creative Artworker, Brazil/United Kingdom
Carlotta Trippa

Carlotta Trippa

(she/her) Architect & Urban Designer, Italy/United Kingdom
Carmem Saito

Carmem Saito

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany/UK
Javier Syquia

Javier Syquia

(he/him) Designer, USA/Hong Kong/Philippines
Johanna Lewengard

Johanna Lewengard

(she/her) Communication Designer & Educator, Sweden
Benedetta Crippa

Benedetta Crippa

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Sweden
Engagement Arts NL

Engagement Arts NL

Artist-led Movement, The Netherlands
The Racial Justice Student Collective

The Racial Justice Student Collective

Student Collective, Switzerland
Gráinne Donohue

Gráinne Donohue

(she/her) Organizer & Researcher, France
Ritupriya Basu

Ritupriya Basu

(she/her) Design Writer, India
Maria Kruglyak

Maria Kruglyak

(she/her) Researcher, Editor & Artist, Portugal/Russia/United Kingdom
Zoy Anastassakis

Zoy Anastassakis

(she/her) Designer & Anthropologist, Brazil
Griselda Flesler

Griselda Flesler

(she/her) Researcher & Educator, Argentina
Lesley-Ann Noel

Lesley-Ann Noel

(she/her) Design Educator, United States/Trinidad & Tobago
Divya Rathod

Divya Rathod

(she/her) Landscape Architect & Design Researcher, India/Germany
Mariangela Beccoi

Mariangela Beccoi

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Italy/Germany
Sinem Görücü

Sinem Görücü

(she/her) Architect, Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom/Turkey
Jerá Guarani

Jerá Guarani

(she/her) Educator, Activist & Leader, Tenondé Porã Indigenous Land
Aasawari Kulkarni

Aasawari Kulkarni

(she/her) Designer, Educator & Writer, USA/India
Pallavi Keshri

Pallavi Keshri

(she/her) Visual Artist & Communication Designer, India/Switzerland
Eva Gonçalves

Eva Gonçalves

(she/her) Graphic designer, Researcher & Educator, Portugal/Germany
Hamza Bashandy

Hamza Bashandy

(he/him) Architect & Game Designer
Sacha Fortuné

Sacha Fortuné

(she/her) Writer & Editor, Trinidad & Tobago
Noura Tafeche

Noura Tafeche

(she/her) Artist & Independent Researcher, Italy/Palestine
Zainab Marvi

Zainab Marvi

(she/her) Designer, Researcher, Illustrator & Educator, Pakistan/Germany
Leonardo de Vasconcelos Santana

Leonardo de Vasconcelos Santana

(he/him) Designer, wishful Writer & Researcher, Brazil/United Kingdom
Mahmoud Keshavarz

Mahmoud Keshavarz

(he/him) Writer & Researcher, Sweden/Iran
Isabella Barroso

Isabella Barroso

(she/her) Bruxa-ciborgue, Technologist, Researcher & Journalist, Brazil
Mirna Bamieh

Mirna Bamieh

(she/her) Artist, Palestine
Gabriela Aquije Zegarra

Gabriela Aquije Zegarra

(she/her) Architect & Researcher, Switzerland/Peru
Eva Jack

Eva Jack

(she/her) Artist & Educator, Scotland
Tina Omayemi Reden

Tina Omayemi Reden

(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Switzerland
Amanda Lorentzon

Amanda Lorentzon

(she/her/non) Transdisciplinary Designer, Sweden/United States
Orly Noy

Orly Noy

(she/her) Editor, Activist & Translator, Iran/Israel
Shirin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi

(she/her) Activist & Lawyer, Iran/United Kingdom
Danielle Harris

Danielle Harris

(she/they) Fashion Designer & Educator, Switzerland
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa

Bibiana Oliveira Serpa

(she/her) Design Researcher, Educator & Activist, Brazil
Isabelle Winkler

Isabelle Winkler

(she/her) Writer & Editor, Germany/Australia
Veronika Larsson

Veronika Larsson

(she/her) Graphic Designer & Writer, Sweden
Vera Sacchetti

Vera Sacchetti

(she/her) Design Critic & Curator, Portugal/Switzerland
Karoline Buer

Karoline Buer

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Norway
Loana Gatti

Loana Gatti

(she/her) Pluridisciplinary Artist & Researcher, Switzerland
Mani Deepa Barla

Mani Deepa Barla

(she/her) Industrial Designer, India
Yatharth

Yatharth

(he/him) Researcher, India
Cooperativa de Diseño

Cooperativa de Diseño

Political Design Organization, Argentina
Antônio Bispo dos Santos

Antônio Bispo dos Santos

(he/him) Poet, Writer, Teacher & Political Activist, Brazil
Mindy Seu

Mindy Seu

(she/they), Designer, Technologist & Researcher, United States
Mohamed Gaber

Mohamed Gaber

(he/him) Type Designer, Graphic Designer & Visual Artist, Egypt
Maha Akl

Maha Akl

(she/her) Type Designer, Egypt
Sahar Afshar

Sahar Afshar

(she/her) Typeface Designer & Printing Historian, Iran/United Kingdom
Victoria Nascimento Veiga

Victoria Nascimento Veiga

(she/her) Fashion & Shoe Designer, Brazil
Decolonising Design

Decolonising Design

A group of critical design researchers, artists, and activists
Iany Gayo

Iany Gayo

(she/her) Designer, Portugal/Mozambique
Napisa Leelasuphapong

Napisa Leelasuphapong

(she/her) Graphic designer & Writer, Thailand
Afonso de Matos

Afonso de Matos

(he/him) Graphic Designer, Portugal
Paola De Martin

Paola De Martin

(she/her) Scholar Activist & Design Historian, Switzerland/Italy
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk

Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk

(she/her) Architectural researcher, Designer & Performer, Switzerland/ South Africa
Amanda Haas

Amanda Haas

(she/they) Graphic Designer, Lecturer, Publisher & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Twisha Mehta

Twisha Mehta

(she/they) Researcher and Communications Facilitator
Florencia Fontenla

Florencia Fontenla

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Argentina
Engy Aly

Engy Aly

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Researcher & Curator, Egypt
Solveig Qu Suess

Solveig Qu Suess

(she/her) Researcher, Filmmaker & Artist, Switzerland/Germany
Geanine Escobar

Geanine Escobar

(she/her) Academic-Activist, Cultural Producer, Audio-Descriptor & Conservator-Restorer, Portugal
Habib Asfar

Habib Asfar

(he/none) Expressive Arts Practitioner, Relational Artist & Public Health Physician, nomadic
Mara Züst

Mara Züst

(she/her) Artist, Cultural Pedagogue & Researcher, Switzerland
Mini-Zine-Library

Mini-Zine-Library

Community Art Project, nomadic
Noureldin Ahmed

Noureldin Ahmed

(he/him) Researcher, Egypt
Nadia Ghanem

Nadia Ghanem

(she/her) Filmmaker, Egypt
Farah Hallaba

Farah Hallaba

(she/her) Social Anthropologist & Visual Ethnographer
Sabah Elhadid

Sabah Elhadid

(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Independent Researcher & Graphic Designer, Egypt
Rasha Dakkak

Rasha Dakkak

(she/her) Designer & Educator, Palestine
Luba Nomhlekazi Nkiwane

Luba Nomhlekazi Nkiwane

(she/her) Architect & Researcher, Zimbabwe/Malta
Morgan Brown

Morgan Brown

(he/him) Software Engineer, United States/Germany