#Incomplete Compendia
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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
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“The Void” by Maya Ober republished in The Funambulist!
The Void by Maya Ober has been republished by The Funambulist in their 40th issue! The Funambulist engages with the politics of space and bodies. Through articles, interviews, artworks, design
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“South is Up” by Sherine Salla in the Sign Design Society’s Newsletter!
How do maps represent the world? What ontologies lie behind the seemingly objective design of world maps, and how can the world be imagined otherwise? These are some of many
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“The Dark Side of Pictograms” by Mujgan Abdulzade republished in Femiskop!
The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan were preceded by a series of racist and sexist outrages. These incidents revealed how profoundly sports are embedded in oppressive body norms and
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Celebrating together: A Futuress end-of-the-year dinner
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
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“Does Design Care” by Cherry-Ann Davis and Nina Paim in A Line Which Forms A Volume #5!
A Line Which Forms A Volume #5 explores how the act of leaning on, with, and into a research topic can be regarded as a form of care for the
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We are in Milan! The L.i.P Collective exhibited at HARD COPY SOFT TOUCH.
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
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Feminist Findings in Korea! A collaboration with Platform P.
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
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Together we are stronger! depatriarchise design and Futuress have merged!
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
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“The power of Identity”—Mio and Mujgan speaking at the Weltformat Festival, Luzern!
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
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“Dreams of Contra-Colonial Futures”: Futuress x 2021 AIGA Conference!
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
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“Here We Are!” Futuress at the Vitra Design Museum
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,
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Creating anti-hegemonic networks: Futuress nominated for the 2021 Swiss Design Awards!
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
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Critical conversations: A collaboration with A Line Which Forms a Volume!
Futuress had the pleasure to re-publish some of the text from the past issue of A Line Which Forms a Volume! The publication is a critical reader and symposium of
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Coding Resistance
A new study program exposing coded inequalities and reimagining technologies for better, brighter, and more just futures!
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Does Design Care? Futuress at the Porto Design Biennale!
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
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Collectively addressing contemporary social issues: Troublemakers Class of 2020 in GRAPHIC Magazine #47!
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
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A new lecture series: A collaboration with Centre Culturel Suisse Paris!
“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
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Against the Grain
An Online Course and Fellowship Program fostering critical perspectives on the designed past and democratizing access to design history writing—in a broad sense.
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We have sprouted a new team: Welcome, Cherry-Ann Davis, Maya Ober, Mio Kojima, and Sacha Fortuné!
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
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Depatriarchise design and Futuress speaking at the Design Academy Eindhoven!
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
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
#LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.
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Troublemakers Class of 2020
A remote workshop for design research and writing, and a support network for the killjoys, outcasts, misfits, and rebels of design.
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The Liberation in Print Collective
Digging through digital archives to uncover feminist periodicals from the past.
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A Futuress Publication: The Feminist Findings Zine!
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
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Feminist Findings at A-Z Berlin: Presenting the L.i.P Collective in our very first show!
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