Futuress

We are thrilled to announce our new long-term collaboration: CROSSINGS—TRAVESSIAS [https://futuress.org/tag/travessias-crossings/]. Together with the Brazilian publishing platform Piseagrama [https://piseagrama.org/], we will be working

Our Futuress team has gone through some c-c-c-c-changes yet again! Sadly, our beloved powerhouse Cherry-Ann Davis [https://futuress.org/author/cherry/] has left Futuress to focus on her own research.

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

The Void [https://futuress.org/stories/the-void/] by Maya Ober has been republished by The Funambulist [https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6aa2d13eba1beab1d5d1bceb&id=298101bfe5&e=

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

Issue 246 of ARCH+, Germany’s leading magazine for discourse in the fields of architecture and urbanism, [https://archplus.net/de/archiv/ausgabe/246/#article-6747] is dedicated to contemporary feminist

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

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

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

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 [https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6aa2d13eba1beab1d5d1bceb&

depatriarchise design [https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6aa2d13eba1beab1d5d1bceb&id=34646d23f4&e=6be58e2e08] and Futuress have been steady collaborators for a long time. Even before the

Futuress was invited to speak at the 2021 Weltformat Graphic Design Festival [https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6aa2d13eba1beab1d5d1bceb&id=0ece0d6268&e=6be58e2e08] in Luzern! Under

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!” [https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6aa2d13eba1beab1d5d1bceb&id=3c2b527440&e=6be58e2e08] exhibition, which celebrated women designers from the

Futuress was nominated for this year’s Swiss Design Awards [https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6aa2d13eba1beab1d5d1bceb&id=04b258f8ec&e=6be58e2e08] , and invited to present our

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

An online fellowship and lecture series 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 [https://futuress.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6aa2d13eba1beab1d5d1bceb&id=e2881e6e56&e=

Issue #47 of the South Korean magazine GRAPHIC [https://graphicmag.kr/] brings together several projects by designers, design researchers, and artists concerned with contemporary social issues around social, spatial, and

“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 fellowship and lecture series critically examining the designed past and democratizing access to design history writing.

At the beginning of 2021, our co-founding editors Eliot Gisel [http://corinnegisel.com/] and Madeleine Morley [https://madeleinemorley.cargo.site/] left Futuress to work on new initiatives—we thank them

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

An online fellowship digging through digital archives to uncover feminist periodicals from the past.

Feminist Findings by the Liberation in Print Collective [https://futuress.org/events/lip-collective/] is a zine filled with stories on the labor, loves, networks, hierarchies, friendships, fallouts, struggles, victories, economics,

Feminist Findings showcases the joint research of the L.i.P. Collective [https://futuress.org/events/lip-collective/]—the very first Futuress fellowship, which ran from April–June 2020. Spread over

Eliot Gisel [https://futuress.org/author/eliot/] is a Swiss journalist, editor, and researcher exploring topics such as design education, dress culture, city politics, visual rhetorics of resistance, LGBTQIA+ activism,