Futuress

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

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

On December 4, our tight-knit community around Basel gathered to celebrate together our pan-religious Futuress Hannukkah—Day of Iansã—Xmas—End of the Year meal. The dinner honored our different

Our colorful Feminist Findings zine by the L.i.P. Collective has been touring the globe and speaking new languages! It was recently on display at the “Hard Copy Soft

Futuress was born from a desire to think and practice design “otherwise.” Our first workshop, the L.i.P. Collective, was the fuse that sparked our model of mixing collective

depatriarchise design and Futuress have been steady collaborators for a long time. Even before the Diversity Issues text and the Coding Resistance Fellowship, our two platforms have been supporting each

Futuress was invited to speak at the 2021 Weltformat Graphic Design Festival in Luzern! Under the panel theme “The Power of Identity,” Futuress, alongside Clara Balaguer and Charlotte Rhode, gave

In an age of climate catastrophe and social reckoning, dreams and imagination are more important than ever. This is what inspired Dreams of Contra-Colonial Futures: a Futuress-curated symposium within the

Futuress was part of the “Here We Are!” exhibition, which celebrated women designers from the past 120 years. The show ​​at the Vitra Design Museum was curated by Viviane Stappmanns,

Futuress was nominated for this year’s Swiss Design Awards, and invited to present our work in the form of an exhibition. But how can we present the intangible work

A new study program exposing coded inequalities and reimagining technologies for better, brighter, and more just futures!

Could design be reimagined as a care practice? This question lies at the core of Alter-Care, a journal edited by Cherry-Ann Davis and Nina Paim, on behalf of Futuress for

Issue #47 of the South Korean magazine GRAPHIC brings together several projects by designers, design researchers, and artists concerned with contemporary social issues around social, spatial, and climate justice. They

“Pandemics do not materialize in isolation,” Edna Bonhomme, a historian of science, has rightly pointed out. “They are part and parcel of capitalism and colonization.” A crisis brings to light

An Online Course and Fellowship Program fostering critical perspectives on the designed past and democratizing access to design history writing—in a broad sense.

At the beginning of 2021, our co-founding editors Eliot Gisel and Madeleine Morley left Futuress to work on new initiatives—we thank them for their contributions, and wish them all

In a public lecture at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Maya Ober and Anja Neidhardt from depatriarchise design, together with Madeleine Morley and Nina Paim from Futuress, shared a few insights

Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.

An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.

A remote workshop for design research and writing, and a support network for the killjoys, outcasts, misfits, and rebels of design.

Digging through digital archives to uncover feminist periodicals from the past.

Feminist Findings by the Liberation in Print Collective is a zine filled with stories on the labor, loves, networks, hierarchies, friendships, fallouts, struggles, victories, economics, designs, and daily lives of

Feminist Findings showcases the joint research of the L.i.P. Collective—the very first Futuress fellowship, which ran from April–June 2020. Spread over four continents and many time

Eliot Gisel is a Swiss journalist, editor, and researcher exploring topics such as design education, dress culture, city politics, visual rhetorics of resistance, LGBTQIA+ activism, culture, and the politics of