From February to June 2024, an exciting line-up of speakers will share how they bring disability justice into the classroom, tackle systemic discrimination in design institutions, challenge hegemonic narratives in design history, attempt to decolonize and depatriarchalize design curricula, and much more!
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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
Upcoming events
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Date TBA | online | free | open group conversation “Let’s Talk about Activist Practices No. 2”
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Date TBA | online + in Basel | free | Futuress Tutorial
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Date TBA | online | free | open group conversation “Let’s Talk about Workshopping No. 2”
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We’ll soon announce our upcoming events. Please stay tuned through our newsletter or instagram channel!
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Upcoming events
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Date TBA | online | free | open group conversation “Let’s Talk about Activist Practices No. 2”
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Date TBA | online + in Basel | free | Futuress Tutorial
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Date TBA | online | free | open group conversation “Let’s Talk about Workshopping No. 2”
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We’ll soon announce our upcoming events. Please stay tuned through our newsletter or instagram channel!
Fellowship Programs
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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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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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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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#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
![Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_Nina.png)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 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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Let’s Talk About Institutional Life No. 1
Sep 2, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | kHaus Basel | group conversation
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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices No. 3
Aug 17, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation | co-moderated with 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 Gebrayel
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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
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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
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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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