Designing Resistance
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On Rehearsing Access
Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders.
![Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production](/content/images/2024/02/Hero_Florencia.png)
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Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production
How cartoneros in Buenos Aires paved the way to social and environmental sustainability.
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A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
![On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design](/content/images/2023/02/Hero_bao.jpg)
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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.
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Multiple Feminisms, Collective Struggles
How Argentina’s 35th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Travesti, Intersex, Bisexual, and Non-Binary shapes feminisms in 2022.
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MOTHER TONGUE / מאַמע-לשון / MAME LUSHEN
What designing an interscriptual typeface tells us about legibility, Jewish visual culture and the feeling of inbetweenship.
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“Democracy in Iran will arrive through women”
Feminist activist Shirin Ebadi discusses why the women-led protests in Iran may herald the regime change.
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“Me All Around You:” Listening Practices In The Digital
Francisca Khamis Giacoman and Tina Omayemi Reden discuss Skype’s heyday, attentive listening, and why there is no “one” digital space.
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“We Are Not Safe:” Platform Censorship And Trauma
Oppressive social structures are coded into our feeds to alienate and harm marginalized identity dissidents in Latin America. How can we fight back?
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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.
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“Anger is my Motto”
Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.
![My Grandma is Not a Cyborg](/content/images/2022/04/8a.jpg)
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My Grandma is Not a Cyborg
On the oppression of everyday objects, and hacking the design gap.
![One NO Leads To a Thousand More](/content/images/2022/04/Hero_Mariangela.jpg)
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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.
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
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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.
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Making Room
Transforming homes from sites of carcerality into spaces for abolitionist imagination.
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“They are killing us”
How Peruvian designers are reshaping the way we see femicide.
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![Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Neo.jpg)
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Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns
Artist Lawrence Lemaoana on coding narratives into textiles and his uneasy relationship with the art world.
![Designing with/against Cherophobia](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Ece.jpg)
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Designing with/against Cherophobia
In search of haps, untrodden paths, and wayward futurities.
![The Labyrinth to the Pomegranate Tree](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Heba.jpg)
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The Labyrinth to the Pomegranate Tree
At the Root of Conformity, Adaptation, and the Cyclical Nature of Change.
![Is There Anyone Reading out There?](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_ElioVittoria.jpg)
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Is There Anyone Reading out There?
A step into 90s Italian fanzine scene: Speed Demon and its queer community.
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A Self in Relation
Tender rituals and joyful interventions in the face of loneliness.
![A Cocktail of Feminist Fuel](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Sabrina.jpg)
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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.
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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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Access to Culture: Who Holds the Key?
Lessons from Madrid’s approach to community cultural management
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Refugees Welcome?
Challenging structural racism and apathy with illustrative storytelling.
![Against Performative Positivity](/content/images/2022/05/Hero_Danah.jpg)
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.