As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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Black Narratives in Cyberspace
June 19, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Laura Campaz
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On Curating and Meaning-Making: Anthropological Tools and Collective Knowledge Production
June 27, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Farah Hallaba
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May 8–9 | online | free | symposium “On the Seam: Anthropology, Design, and Situated Practices” | in collaboration with the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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May 24 | 4 pm CEST | online + at Infospace Basel, Switzerland | free | Futuress Tutorial with Amanda Haas | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
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May–October 2025 | online | free | fellowship and public program | “Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise”
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May 29 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture “Kgotla Cosmotechnics: Negotiation Materiality and Space” with Lesego Bantsheng from Rural Futurisms
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June 19 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture “Black Narratives in Cyberspace” with Laura Campaz
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Kgotla Cosmotechnics: Negotiation Materiality and Space
May 29, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Lesego Bantsheng from Rural Futurisms
Upcoming events
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May 8–9 | online | free | symposium “On the Seam: Anthropology, Design, and Situated Practices” | in collaboration with the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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May 24 | 4 pm CEST | online + at Infospace Basel, Switzerland | free | Futuress Tutorial with Amanda Haas | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
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May–October 2025 | online | free | fellowship and public program | “Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise”
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May 29 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture “Kgotla Cosmotechnics: Negotiation Materiality and Space” with Lesego Bantsheng from Rural Futurisms
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June 19 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture “Black Narratives in Cyberspace” with Laura Campaz
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Fellowship Programs
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Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise
An online fellowship and public program expanding the notion of technology beyond colonial, modernist, and solutionist views!
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Coding Resistance
An online fellowship and lecture series exposing coded inequalities and reimagining technologies for better, brighter, and more just futures!
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Against the Grain
An online fellowship and lecture series critically examining the designed past and democratizing access to design history writing.
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Troublemakers Class of 2020
A remote fellowship 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
An online fellowship digging through digital archives to uncover feminist periodicals from the past.
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#Unwired Currents
#Unwired Currents
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Kgotla Cosmotechnics: Negotiation Materiality and Space
May 29, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Lesego Bantsheng from Rural Futurisms
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Black Narratives in Cyberspace
June 19, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Laura Campaz
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On Curating and Meaning-Making: Anthropological Tools and Collective Knowledge Production
June 27, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Farah Hallaba
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Afropresentism: On Incantation and the Machine
Jul 31, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Neema Githere
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Healing as Technology: Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge in the Amazon
Aug 28, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Bárbara Santos
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MIKRO BIOCINE—Speculative Ecosystem Creation through Poetry, Film, Language Games, and Hacking
Sep 26, 2025 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | Unwired Currents lecture with Caos Ludd
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#Design Educators* Unite!
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Mocha Celis: We Dare to Build the World We Want to Live In
July 4, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture with Francisco Quiñones Cuartas and Virginia Silveira from Mocha Celis | co-moderated with Paulina Ojeda
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Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care
June 19, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Nina Mühlemann
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Design and Other Ways of Knowing
June 13, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Ramia Mazé
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Feminist Killjoy Design Pedagogy: On Emphasizing Joy
June 6, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Elizabeth Chin
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Social Design Practices: From the Popular Neighborhoods to the Faculty of Design
May 2, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Auge FADU | co-moderated with Abigail Schreider
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#Futuress Keynote
#Futuress Keynote
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Visual Narratives of Resistance: Graphic Design and the Palestinian Movement
May 15, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | with Engy Aly and Ghalia Elsrakbi | co-moderated with Randa Hadi
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A Design Anthropology of What?
June 22, 2023 | 3 pm CEST | online | with Mahmoud Keshavarz
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Feminist Webs: Gathering Cyberfeminism(s)
May 11, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | with Mindy Seu
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The Politics of Producing
Apr 20, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | with Iskander Guetta
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The Promise of Shifting Paradigms
Mar 15, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | with Cherrypye
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A Picture Breaks a Thousand Binaries
Feb 08, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | with Floriane Fo Misslin
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#Educators In Correspondence
#Educators In Correspondence
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Design as Mediation: On the Everyday Politics of Space-Making Practices
June 15, 2024 | 5:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
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Classism and Design: On the Social Implications of Studying Design
Sep 27, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | with Paola De Martin and Afonso de Matos
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Diasporic Memories
June 1, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | with Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Dorothy Wong Ka Chung, and Benjamin Ryser
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Challenging the Universal: On Norm-Criticality in Design
Feb 22, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | with Hayfaa Chalabi and Loana Gatti
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Decolonizing Fashion
Dec 15, 2022 | 6 pm CET | online | with Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola and Danielle Harris
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Ecologies of Food and Design
Nov 10, 2022 | 6 pm CET | online | with Gabriela Aquije Zegarra, Mirna Bamieh, and Mayar El Bakry
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#Futuress Tutorial
#Futuress Tutorial
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Dynamics of Collective Intelligence: Wikipedia as a Feminist Tool
Feb 1, 2025 | 4 pm CET | online | free | with Daniela Brugger and Chris Regn from Who writes his_tory?
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On Autoethnographic Filmmaking
May 25, 2024 | 4 pm CEST | online and at InfoSpace Basel, Switzerland | free | with Solveig Qu Suess | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
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Between Imaginary and Image: Architecture as Storyteller
Nov 18, 2023 | 4 pm CET | online and at KHaus Basel, Switzerland | with Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk | co-moderated with Abigail Schreider
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Access for Us: Responding with Care Amidst Precarity
June 14, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | with Ren Loren Britton
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The Future Is Cooperative
Mar 22, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | with Cooperativa de Diseño
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From Pitch to Published
Jan 18, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | with Vera Sacchetti
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#Let’s Talk
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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 2
Oct 17, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
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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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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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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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Let’s Talk About School No. 3
Dec 14, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | group conversation
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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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#Roundtable
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Who Gets to Design Arabic Typography?
June 28, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | with Sahar Afshar, Maha Akl, and Mohamed Gaber | co-moderated with Imad Gebrael
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The Challenge of Decolonization: On Debrahmanizing Design in India
Mar 09, 2023 | 3:30 pm CET | online | with The Big Fat Bao, Mani Deepa Barla, and Yatharth
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Complaint Collective
March 8, 2022 | 6 pm CEST | online |
with ENGAGEMENT ARTS NL, Les Mots de Trop, and The Racial Justice Student Collective
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#etceteras
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etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing
October 5-7, 2023 | Casa Comum, Porto, Portugal | festival
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#For Us, With Us, By Us
#For Us, With Us, By Us
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Practices
May 5, 2023 | 2—8 pm EET | Startup Haus, Cairo | with Naïma Ben Ayed, Farah Hallaba, Imad Gebrayel, Iskander Guetta, Sabah ElHadid, and Nadia Mounier
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Narratives
Apr 13, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | online | with Farah Hallaba, Nadia Ghanem, Nadia Mounier, and Naïma Ben Ayed
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For Us, With Us, By Us: Ontology
Mar 16, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | with Imad Gebrayel, Iskander Guetta, Rasha Dakkak, and Sabah Elhadid
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#Coding Resistance
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Towards Justice, Equity and Accountability in AI
November 19, 2021 | 6 pm CEST | with Timnit Gebru, AI ethics researcher, computer scientist, and activist
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Digital Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
November 12, 2021 | 3 pm CEST | with Marwa Fatafta, digital rights activist and researcher
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Interdependence as a Political Technology
November 05 | 3 pm CEST | with Aimi Hamraie, designer and disability researcher
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Make Time to Take Time
October 30, 2021 | 4 pm CEST | with Morehshin Allahyari, activist, artist, writer, and educator
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Emancipation Through the Virtual
October 22, 2021 | 3 pm CEST | with Iyo Bisseck, activist, designer, researcher, and artist
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Glimmering Opacities: From Queering The Map to QT.bot
October 15, 2021 | 3 pm CEST | with Lucas LaRochelle, designer and researcher
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#Against the Grain
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Visualizing the Invisible
June 18, 2021 | 5 pm CEST | with Sria Chatterjee, art historian, and environmental humanities scholar
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Salted Waters In the Whorls of Time
May 28, 2021 | 5 pm CEST | with Luiza Prado de O. Martins, artist, writer, and researcher
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Ladies of Letters
May 21, 2021 | 5 pm CEST | with Bahia Shehab, multidisciplinary artist, designer, activist and historian
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Finding Louise E. Jefferson
May 14, 2021 | 5 pm CEST | with Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton, artist, educator, designer, and researcher
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The Frame of History
May 7, 2021 | 5 pm CEST | with Evan Nicole Brown, writer, reporter, and editor
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Imperial Fevers, Invisible Lives
April 30, 2021 | 5 pm CEST | with Edna Bonhomme, historian, writer, and interdisciplinary artist
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#Making and Unmaking
#Making and Unmaking
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Wet Paint
April 27, 2021 | 8 pm CEST | with Ramaya Tegegne, artist and cultural organizer based in Geneva
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Exhibiting for Earthly Habitability
April 27, 2021 | 12:30 CEST | with Dr Fiona Cameron, Activist Academic and Leading Thinker in Museum and Digital Heritage Studies
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Trees in Forests, Webs, Onions
April 20, 2021 | 8 pm CEST | with Lucia Pietroiusti, Curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, London
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More of What We Don't See
April 6, 2021 | 8 pm CEST | with Keyna Eleison, Co-Artistic Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro
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Srijan-Abartan: Workshop for Exhibition Making and Unmaking
April 2, 2021 | 12:30 pm CEST | Roundtable with Diana Campbell Betancourt, Prem Krishnamurthy, Dries Rodet, Inteza Shariar, moderated by Nina Paim
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