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!
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Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards
Suggestions for an intersectional feminist citational practice to visual references.
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Automated Precarity and Commodified Time
How AI changes work—from unjust Uber algorithms to psychologically harmful clickwork.
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Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation
How dominant practices rooted in ableism exclude tactile knowledge and Blind perception in museums.
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KUNHÃ PY’A GUASU
A Guarani Nhandewa anthropologist writes on the courage of Indigenous women and the wisdom of the body.
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Dissenting Voices
Typography’s role in the Lebanese sectarian protests.
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Practices of Regard: Images, Memories, Words
June 20, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Darcy Alexandra
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Public Fictions: Methods for (World)Building Different Futures
Sep 5, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Ann Mbuti
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Working with the Archive: Reflecting on Collective Research
Sep 19, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Hybrid Project Space
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Letters I Never Sent: Yearning in Science Fiction
Oct 17, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Sherida Kuffour
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The Language of Art: Celebrating Connection Through Doing Art
Oct 31, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Habib Afsar
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Co-producing Publics: Questioning, Performative Acts, and Temporary Interventions
Nov 07, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | on-site only at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Eva Chen and Circuit Sessions
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Living Technologies: Knowledge-Making Beyond the Machine
Feb 26, 2026 | 6 pm CET | online | free | Unwired Currents lectures | with Lindsey Allen, Sandra Cane, Juan Fortun, Cyan Huescar, and Mahoutondji Kinmagbo
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Pressing Issues: Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance
Oct 2025–Jan 2026 | online | paid series
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The Politics of Language: Anti-Ableist Narrative and Queer Arab Slang
Jan 22, 2026 | 6 pm CET | paid | lecture within the “Pressing Issues” series | with Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Brown and Marwan Kaabour
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“An Opportunity to Challenge the Status Quo”
Camille Circlude on institutional transformation with the Teaching to Transgress* Research Group.
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Practices of Regard: Images, Memories, Words
June 20, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Darcy Alexandra
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Public Fictions: Methods for (World)Building Different Futures
Sep 5, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Ann Mbuti
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Working with the Archive: Reflecting on Collective Research
Sep 19, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Hybrid Project Space
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Letters I Never Sent: Yearning in Science Fiction
Oct 17, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Sherida Kuffour
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The Language of Art: Celebrating Connection Through Doing Art
Oct 31, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Habib Afsar
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Co-producing Publics: Questioning, Performative Acts, and Temporary Interventions
Nov 07, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | on-site only at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Eva Chen and Circuit Sessions
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A hybrid fellowship and public program supporting emerging practitioners to explore participatory practices!
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Living Technologies: Knowledge-Making Beyond the Machine
Feb 26, 2026 | 6 pm CET | online | free | Unwired Currents lectures | with Lindsey Allen, Sandra Cane, Juan Fortun, Cyan Huescar, and Mahoutondji Kinmagbo
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Pressing Issues: Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance
Oct 2025–Jan 2026 | online | paid series
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The Politics of Language: Anti-Ableist Narrative and Queer Arab Slang
Jan 22, 2026 | 6 pm CET | paid | lecture within the “Pressing Issues” series | with Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Brown and Marwan Kaabour
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Launching Pressing Issues—an online event series discussing the politics of translating, archiving, and publishing!
We are excited to release this year’s paid online series: Pressing Issues—Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance! From October 2025 to January 2026, six online lectures, one tutorial, and one
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On the Seam—a collaboration with the Department of Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria!
On May 8 and 9, we’ll host a free online symposium with the Department of Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria!
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Behind the scenes of self-organized spaces—Futuress in Stockholm!
In February, Futuress co-director Mio Kojima embarked on a five-day visit to Stockholm, Sweden, as part of the “expert visit” and seminar program by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee IASPIS.
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The Futuress team grows temporarily: Welcome Heba Daghstani!
We are thrilled to announce that long-term Futuress community member Heba Daghistani will support us from January to July 2026! After participating in Futuress’ second fellowship, the Troublemakers’ Class of
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Building bridges—translating five Futuress texts into Japanese with Tokyo-based publisher Troublemakers
We are excited to share the fruits of a collaboration with Tokyo-based independent publisher Troublemakers! Over the past few months, the two platforms have been carefully selecting five out of
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Unwired Currents—a new collaboration redefining technologies
Together with the think & do tank Dezentrum, we received funding from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia to collaborate with design researcher and long-time Futuress contributing editor Franca López
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A glimpse into Futuress’ endeavors in “Publishing Anecdotes”
In July, co-director Mio Kojima talked about her journey at Futuress in a
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“A Critical Statement” by Sophie Thurner republished by the WOMAN OPEN TECH LAB!
First published on Futuress in February 2022, “A Critical Statement
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#Living Archives: Centering oral history and non-hegemonic historiographies.
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“Anthropology Is a Way of Being”
Farah Hallaba on bridging academia and community through participatory research.
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“Stretching the Meaning of Public Space”
Nadia Mounier on documenting Cairo, gender politics, and the tensions of image-making in a changing Egypt.
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
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Circling the Circassian Identity
Chronicles of nationless-ness, scattered souls, and fragmented selves.
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(Re)claiming Archives: استعادة الأرشيف
A palace of memories for collective imagination
قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
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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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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
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#Feminist Curricula: Reimagining design education as a practice of unlearning and relearning.
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Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards
Suggestions for an intersectional feminist citational practice to visual references.
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
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أحْرُف وكَلِمَاتْ وقِصَصْ A Multi-Script Type Design Program
Imagining a playground for collective archiving, researching and letter-making.
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
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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.”
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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.
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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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#Complaint Collective: Exposing abuse and discrimination in design education.
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“An Opportunity to Challenge the Status Quo”
Camille Circlude on institutional transformation with the Teaching to Transgress* Research Group.
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
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Enough is Enough
Art & Design students lead the charge to expose the abusive underbelly of France's education system.
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Long Nights
Do art universities educate students to exploit themselves? Short answer: Yes.
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
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Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions
An anonymous Instagram account cries for accountability in the Dutch art and design scene. What happens next?
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
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#Designing Resistance: Highlighting the myriad ways in which activism and political opposition are expressed.
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On Rehearsing Access
Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders.
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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.
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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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#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS: Translating urgent Afro-Brazilian voices originally published in Portuguese by the Brazilian platform Piseagrama.
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KUNHÃ PY’A GUASU
A Guarani Nhandewa anthropologist writes on the courage of Indigenous women and the wisdom of the body.
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Taming the Chalk
A Xakriabá activist reclaims the enduring power of clay, genipap, and chalk for a decolonized education.
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We Belong to the Land
Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.
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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.”
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#Epistemic Activism: A deep-dive into the politics of language and knowledge production.
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Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation
How dominant practices rooted in ableism exclude tactile knowledge and Blind perception in museums.
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Kusvikirwa: A Decolonial Spirit
Reconnecting with the past through ancestral practices in Zimbabwe.
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
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Who Gets to Design Arabic Typography?
A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.
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A Canon Misbound: Feminist Lessons in Print
The lack of written accounts about Norwegian graphic design is a chance to question norms and explore non-traditional historiographic methods.
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How Far We’ve Cum: Sweden’s “Sex Ed” Through Time
Historically, the same pitfall: society changes fast, and schools cannot bear the full responsibility for sex education alone. What next?
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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?
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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.
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#Vulnerable Observers: Exploring how the personal is political—from body politics to mental health.
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I Don’t Want to Quote Anyone but Myself
A lyrical resistance blooming where exile and memory intertwine, reclaiming the self in full.
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Parda: Of Roots, Curls and Race
A Brazilian’s entangled journey to Black awareness in a whitewashed world.
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Living an Immigrant Life
Settling and unsettling experiences of an Argentinian designer living abroad.
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Bodies and selves: Reflections on visual coding and identity.
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) Decolonising Design, a group founded in 2016 by eight design researchers, artists, and activists, stemming from the Global South.
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#Earthshaking: Advocating for environmental justice and exposing extractivst practices.
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“Sustainability Without Class Struggle is Just Gardening”
Victoria Nascimento Veiga’s journey toward socially and environmentally conscious fashion.
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A Water Story
Tracing the ebbs and flows of India’s shifting aquatic ecosystems
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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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#Fashion #SustainableFashion #FashionFutures
Debunking hashtags to imagine generative fashion systems in times of ecological collapse.
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Un-sustaining Sustainability?
Tracing the colonial origins of India’s rising “sustainable” fashion industry
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
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#Objects of Interest: Revealing the stories and socio-political implications behind designed objects.
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Automated Precarity and Commodified Time
How AI changes work—from unjust Uber algorithms to psychologically harmful clickwork.
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Designing Belief: A Journey into the Sacred Art of Phrakhreūang
How tradition, history, and social development converge in Thailand’s amulet culture.
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A Tribute to Feira Do Pau
A stroll through Maputo’s Ebony Market and the relational power of Mozambican design.
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A House and a Hole
How industrial exploitation and extractivism destroy lands, bodies, and architectural practices in Morocco.
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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?
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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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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
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#Politics of Display: Examining the politics of visibility and invisibility manifested in designed systems.
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Dissenting Voices
Typography’s role in the Lebanese sectarian protests.
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Pastel-Coated Violence
How online culture aestheticizes militarism and oppression through sexualization and hyper-cuteness.
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Real Activism or Clicks without a Cause?
Our social media experiences are not neutral. How can we engage without fuelling a platform conducive to performative allyship?
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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.
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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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Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha
Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.
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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
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South is Up
On subjective worlds, alternative Earths, and map projections.
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#Incomplete Compendia
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An Incomplete Directory of Feminist Bookstores
From fresh new shops to decade old strongholds, these are our community’s favourite places to get books and make friends.
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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.
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#Feminist Findings: Searching for the missing stories of feminist periodicals from the past.
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A Letter from the Future
Connecting across time and space with the team behind Berlin’s Courage magazine.
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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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Some Serious Surprises
A list of articles on feminist publishing in the 1980s feminist art magazine Chrysalis.
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Follow the Money
Questioning the politics of the US funding of Lebanese women’s studies journal Al-Raida.
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Iterative at Heart
Spare Rib’s continuously shifting design found a middle-ground between mainstream and counterculture.
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Feminism. What’s In a Word?
Reclaiming the keyword for women’s liberation from misogynistic nineteenth-century French literature.
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“What Do You Think History Is?”
A brief conversation with Liza Cowan, editor of 1970s lesbian separatist periodical DYKE A Quarterly.
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Torn in Two Directions
The journal making space for Muslim women’s voices during France’s notorious “veil affair.”
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Bronze-Verdigris: a Colonial History
Seeking liberty in stolen bowls, historical mansions, deadly wallpapers, and fugitive greens.
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.
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Blue
Bolting a chain of exploitation, from hardy rocky plants, to deep indigo dyes, and monumental stones.
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Red
Tracing the bloodline of an ink from sixteenth century Abya Yala to the National Gallery in London.
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The Promise of Translation
Futuress’s editors reflect on the feminist politics of carrying stories across affective, geographical, and linguistic borders.
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.
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