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Let’s Talk About Activist Practices No. 2
Sep 26, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
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“A Critical Statement” by Sophie Thurner republished by the WOMAN OPEN TECH LAB!
First published on Futuress in February 2022, “A Critical Statement” calls out exclusive and extractivist structures within design education and asks: “will the solution to a design problem actually be
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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 1
June 15, 2024 | 1:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | group conversation | co-moderated with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
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Futuress featured in the debut issue of Troublemakers Magazine
We are honored to be part of the very first issue of the Tokyo-based independent magazine Troublemakers! In September 2023, Troublemaker co-founders Manami Inoue and Yuto Miyamoto visited us in
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8M Special: Let’s Talk About Activist Practices No. 1
Mar 8, 2024 | 12 pm CET | InfoSpace Basel, Switzerland | group conversation | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
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Futuress showcased at Ravisius Textor, France!
Futuress was featured in the exhibition, reading room, and public program “Voltolo—all-around education in contemporary graphic design practices.” Curated by designer Alexandru Balgiu, the show was held at Ravisius
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Launching Design Educators* Unite—a lecture series sharing feminist practices from within
We are thrilled to share the launch of our latest online learning initiative, Design Educators* Unite—a program specifically crafted for design educators, researchers, and students, aiming to explore feminist
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Let’s Talk About School No. 3
Dec 14, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | group conversation
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Etceteras festival—a collaboration immersing into feminist design and publishing!
October 2023 was all about the long-awaited and fantabulous in-person event etceteras— feminist festival of design and publishing in Porto, Portugal! Over the course of three days, etceteras immersed in
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Let’s Talk About Institutional Life No. 2
Oct 26, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation | co-moderated with Heba Daghistani and Abigail Schreider
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Let’s Talk About Institutional Life No. 1
Sep 2, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | kHaus Basel | group conversation
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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices No. 3
Aug 17, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation | co-moderated with Abigail Schreider
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On-site and online—creating spaces to meet and learn
Thanks to Switzerland’s Culture Department of Kanton Basel-City, we’ve secured a generous grant for a brand new edition of monthly Futuress Tutorials and Let’s Talk events! Until
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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices No. 2
July 13, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation
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We are heartbroken and excited at the same time as we say Hello and Goodbye
Life throws curveballs, and Futuress’ financial struggles and the recession have also impacted our team members, who freelance for Futuress, alongside juggling their other jobs and family commitments. With a
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A collective rewriting of design history with publisher Onomatopee
As part of the “Resistance Stories of Design” workshop co-organized by publisher Onomatopee, curator Cecilia Casabona, and Futuress, five designers, researchers, and activists came together from March to May 2023
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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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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices
May 17, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation
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Let’s Talk About School No. 2
Apr 19, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation
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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 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 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