From October 2025 to January 2026, six online lectures, one tutorial, and one roundtable conversation take a deep dive into publishing, translation, and archiving as political practices—from periodicals that weave networks of solidarity, to archives that document resistance, to libraries that imagine new worlds, and even to radio stations that transmit and carry voices beyond borders!
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.
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#Politics of Display
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Fabricating the Dodo: the Making and Unmaking of a Bird
Revealing natural history museums’ politics of preservation and representation through an uncanny encounter with the most famous extinct bird.
#Epistemic Activism
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“What the Cl*t?” A Designer’s Take on the Orgasm Gap
People with clitorises don’t orgasm nearly as much as people with penises. Could illustrations help us to become more cliterate?
#Designing Resistance
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What Women Do to Get Around Karachi: Futile or Fertile?
Mutual trust and care as feminist strategies to navigate the public transport and gendered social norms of Pakistan’s largest city.
#Epistemic Activism
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Judging by the Cover: Racial Bias in Design Publishing
Design books are overwhelmingly cis, male, and white. Designers: I dare you to face your bookshelf and check who is—and who isn’t—there.
#Politics of Display
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The Currency of an Identity: Designing Egyptian Banknotes
In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.
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#Incomplete Compendia
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A Resource Hub for Decolonizing Typography
Texts, lectures and other materials that help disrupt the Eurocentric status quo in type design education and practice.
#Objects of Interest
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A Passive Mob: How Video Games Silence Dissent
Often game design enacts protest as something negative or apolitical. How could it instead ignite criticality and political agency?
#Objects of Interest
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Hey Woman, Are You a Roti? Patriarchy and Indian Flatbread
What the making and unmaking of one of India’s most celebrated foods tell us about traditional female roles, unpaid labor, and revolution
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#Living Archives
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
#Designing Resistance
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“Anger is my Motto”
Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.
#Living Archives
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Circling the Circassian Identity
Chronicles of nationless-ness, scattered souls, and fragmented selves.
#Designing Resistance
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My Grandma is Not a Cyborg
On the oppression of everyday objects, and hacking the design gap.
#Earthshaking
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A Water Story
Tracing the ebbs and flows of India’s shifting aquatic ecosystems
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#Designing Resistance
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One NO Leads To a Thousand More
Tear gas and transnational solidarity: a letter to Asma, the defiant customs worker at the Port of Suez.
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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Becoming Savage
A Guarani Mbya leader on environmental activism, food autonomy, and why we should all challenge the concept of “civilization.”
#Feminist Curricula
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
#Earthshaking
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When a Stone Says No
Following willful stones and the creative potential of refusal against cultural colonialism.
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#Living Archives
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(Re)claiming Archives: استعادة الأرشيف
A palace of memories for collective imagination
قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
#Epistemic Activism
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“The War Is inside Us”
How can we even begin to understand the conflict in Ukraine?
#Living Archives
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
#Living Archives
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A Race Against Time
How the digital gallery Swatch Bharat is documenting the rapidly disappearing native Indian aesthetic.
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#Living Archives
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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
#Designing Resistance
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
#Feminist Curricula
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
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#Living Archives
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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
#Politics of Display
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Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha
Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.
#Feminist Curricula
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“Teach What You Need to Learn”
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
#Epistemic Activism
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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.
#Living Archives
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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Living an Immigrant Life
Settling and unsettling experiences of an Argentinian designer living abroad.
#Politics of Display
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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
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#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
#Vulnerable Observers
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minimal id entity
Bodies and selves: Reflections on visual coding and identity by Dior Thiam.
#Earthshaking
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#Fashion #SustainableFashion #FashionFutures
Debunking hashtags to imagine generative fashion systems in times of ecological collapse.
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