Futuress

Named After Men

Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.

Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha

Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.

“Teach What You Need to Learn”

A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”

A Rejection of the Term “Vernacular”

An analysis of the colonizing word coined for the sake of othering design languages that dare to challenge Eurocentric norms.

Chasing Images

In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.

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