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#Designing Resistance
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On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design
What using a debrahaminizing lens tells us about power relations and discrimination in the Indian design practice and education.
#Betweeners
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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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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
#radical imaginations
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Making Room
Transforming homes from sites of carcerality into spaces for abolitionist imagination.
#Earthshaking
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Un-sustaining Sustainability?
Tracing the colonial origins of India’s rising “sustainable” fashion industry
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#Vulnerable Observers
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
#Politics of Display
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South is Up
On subjective worlds, alternative Earths, and map projections.
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#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.
#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.
#Objects of Interest
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Hi Vis
Toxic Trades, Constructed Masculinity & The Vibrance of Anonymity.
#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.
#Feminist Curricula
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
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#Politics of Display
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In the Name of ♥
Claiming the Semiotics of Power, Colonialism & Capitalism.
#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 Curricula
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
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#Betweeners
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) the Decolonising Design group.
#Earthshaking
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
#LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.