As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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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#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
#Designing Resistance
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“They are killing us”
How Peruvian designers are reshaping the way we see femicide.
#Politics of Display
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South is Up
On subjective worlds, alternative Earths, and map projections.
#Feminist Curricula
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The Last Shift
Field notes from La Entrega Final, or how feminist activism plays itself in the Chair of Design and Gender Studies at FADU, Buenos Aires.
#Designing Resistance
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Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns
Artist Lawrence Lemaoana on coding narratives into textiles and his uneasy relationship with the art world.
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#Politics of Display
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The Interlocality of Typography
A conversation with Yu Jiwon about the suggestions of typographic diversity in society and culture.
#Politics of Display
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Preserve, Revise, Remove, Radicalize
Monuments and memorials in the United States of America after 2020.
#Politics of Display
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The Dark Side of Pictograms
How sports—in particular the Olympics—perpetuate multiple systems of oppression.
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#Objects of Interest
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Hi Vis
Toxic Trades, Constructed Masculinity & The Vibrance of Anonymity.
#Designing Resistance
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Designing with/against Cherophobia
In search of haps, untrodden paths, and wayward futurities.
#Complaint Collective
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Enough is Enough
Art & Design students lead the charge to expose the abusive underbelly of France's education system.
#Politics of Display
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Design Without Design
Reflections from a transdisciplinary workshop for exhibition making and unmaking at the heart of the Dhaka Art Summit.
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As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
#Feminist Curricula
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
#Complaint Collective
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Long Nights
Do art universities educate students to exploit themselves? Short answer: Yes.
#Living Archives
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Publishing is Being Present
How Maria Lamas surreptitiously used a fashion weekly to resist the dictatorship, question gender norms and encourage emancipation.
#Politics of Display
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In the Name of ♥
Claiming the Semiotics of Power, Colonialism & Capitalism.
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#Designing Resistance
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The Labyrinth to the Pomegranate Tree
At the Root of Conformity, Adaptation, and the Cyclical Nature of Change.
#Living Archives
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Queer Dreams of an A.I.
A conversation with Lucas LaRochelle on counter-mapping, artificial intelligence, and queer relationality.
#Feminist Findings
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A Letter from the Future
Connecting across time and space with the team behind Berlin’s Courage magazine.
#Designing Resistance
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Is There Anyone Reading out There?
A step into 90s Italian fanzine scene: Speed Demon and its queer community.
Feminism. Design. Politics. Where these three intersect, you will find Futuress.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.
#Epistemic Activism
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When a Tree Says No
Following histories of deforestation, dispossession, epistemic violence, and resistance.
#Feminist Findings
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Pen Pal Plots
A fictional American woman‘s correspondence with three memorable cover girls that graced the magazine Soviet Woman.
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#Politics of Display
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Before and After
Make-over fantasies, flawed dualisms, and how two images side by side can change public space.
#Feminist Findings
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Some Serious Surprises
A list of articles on feminist publishing in the 1980s feminist art magazine Chrysalis.
#Politics of Display
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Culture, No Context
Face to face with the ethics of European Ethnographic Museums.
#Feminist Curricula
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
#Complaint Collective
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
#Feminist Findings
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Follow the Money
Questioning the politics of the US funding of Lebanese women’s studies journal Al-Raida.
#Objects of Interest
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On Isolation, Heirlooms and Solidarity
How the Sankara Rug became a comfort away from home.
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#Feminist Findings
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Iterative at Heart
Spare Rib’s continuously shifting design found a middle-ground between mainstream and counterculture.
#Designing Resistance
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A Self in Relation
Tender rituals and joyful interventions in the face of loneliness.
#Designing Resistance
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A Cocktail of Feminist Fuel
A chronicle of recent events unfolding in the Swiss public and mediatic spaces, centered around the racist anti-Muslim “face covering” referendum.
#Designing Resistance
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Together We are Giants
What the 8M demonstration in Rio de Janeiro has taught me about design as a practice of autonomy and freedom.
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Feminism. What’s In a Word?
Reclaiming the keyword for women’s liberation from misogynistic nineteenth-century French literature.
