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Do you want to collaborate with us or invite us to your event?
Please check our Collab Rider below or in this document.
The Futuress Collab Rider
Inviting Futuress
We are a nonprofit platform managed by a small team alongside research, teaching, family commitments, and other responsibilities. Thus, we appreciate transparent communication on the following things:
- time(frame)
- budget including honoraries and (for invitations for on-site events) coverage of travel expenses and hotel costs
- imagined roles and responsibilities
Our self-understanding
Futuress is an intersectional feminist platform with a widespread community that works on the intersection of activism, design, social science, education, and research.
At Futuress, we define design in a very broad sense—it is in the words we speak, the objects we use, the things we do, and the systems around us.
We critically examine how design is complicit in unjust and unequal systems, from coded bias in AI, consumerism and capitalism, extractivism, politics of knowledge production, and more, while also envisioning design as a tool for collective resistance and liberation, such as design’s role within activist movements, feminist pedagogies, and brushing history against the grain.
Our aim is to amplify marginalized voices and democratize design education in terms of knowledge politics, accessibility, and pedagogies.
Our practice and expertise
While we identify less as makers in a traditional sense, we understand educational endeavors such as publishing, editing, facilitating, organizing, researching, writing, and curating as world-making practices in the form of pedagogies, storytelling, and space-making.
Our expertise lies in organizing and facilitating online fellowships, curating public programs (online and on-site), and editing situated stories and critical essays.
Striving towards a more cooperative way of working, a big part of our politics is to bring in our network to co-organize, co-facilitate, and co-edit, if possible.
Our hopes and wishes
We are looking forward to learning from your expertise, getting to know practitioners and thinkers from other fields and contexts, and connecting our international community with other networks to enrich one another and spark new conversations.