Stories

We publish a wide range of stories on a weekly basis, including articles and essays produced by fellowship participants, transcripted lectures, and original pieces by the Futuress team, often in collaboration with partner organizations.

Learning

We offer a lively monthly program of online workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and networking events around the politics of design.

Community

Our authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed community of mostly womxn and non-binary designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.

​​​​​For Us, With Us, By U—a collaboration centering stories from the SWANA region!

How can Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) designers, educators, and researchers imagine transnational identities beyond Western worldviews? This is one of the core questions driving ​​​​​For Us, With Us, By Us—لنا، عنّا، معنا, a bilingual program curated by Mayar El Bakry, Noureldin Ahmed, Randa Hadi, Sherine Salla,


​​​​​For Us, With Us, By U—a collaboration centering stories from the SWANA region!

How can Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) designers, educators, and researchers imagine transnational identities beyond Western worldviews? This is one of the core questions driving ​​​​​For Us, With Us, By Us—لنا، عنّا، معنا, a bilingual program curated by Mayar El Bakry, Noureldin Ahmed, Randa Hadi, Sherine Salla, Nada Ezzeldin, and Sohaila Khaled in collaboration with Archief Cairo, cifrcifrcifr, and Futuress. While the first two roundtables took place online, the series closed in May with an in-person event in Cairo, Egypt.