News & Collaborations
As a queer, intersectional feminist platform, building alliances is key to us. Check out our latest collaborations and partnerships!
Feminist Findings at A-Z Berlin: Presenting the L.i.P Collective in our very first show!
Feminist Findings showcases the joint research of the L.i.P. Collective—the very first Futuress fellowship, which ran from April–June 2020. Spread over four continents and many time zones, 23 women and non-binary people connected through the beams of their computer screens to dig through digital archives, searching for the missing histories of feminist journals, magazines, zines, newspapers, and newsletters. A wunderkammer brimming with photographs, artefacts, logos, magazines, quotes, excerpts, resources, pages, footnotes, and digressions, Feminist Findings is a messy, knotted web manifesting its own collective research process. Visitors can discover the struggles and victories of a 1980s San Francisco newsletter for Asian/Pacific lesbians, solve the mystery of an underground tea-room in Paris, hear from the co-founder of India’s first feminist press, and learn how writing a feminist history of Swiss graphic design might start by calling up a neighbor, and much more. The show is curated by Eliot Gisel, Madeleine Morley, and Nina Paim for Futuress, and runs from July 30 to September 24, 2020 at A—Z Berlin.
Who is Futuress? Introducing our founding editors: Eliot Gisel, Madelaine Morley, and Nina Paim!
Eliot Gisel is a Swiss journalist, editor, and researcher exploring topics such as design education, dress culture, city politics, visual rhetorics of resistance, LGBTQIA+ activism, culture, and the politics of language. Madeleine Morley is a Berlin-based British writer and editor who combines the tools of journalism and archival research as she delves into histories of design, media, and feminism. Nina Paim is a Brazilian designer, researcher, curator, educator, and activist, whose work revolves around notions of directing, supporting, and collaborating. During the uncertain and unstable times of the first COVID-19 lockdown in Europe, these three came together to envision Futuress as a space for togetherness, generosity, resistance, growth, and social purpose. They jointly applied and received a Pro-Helvetia Grant, which allowed for the evolution of Futuress into a hybrid publishing and learning platform!