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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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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“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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Engaging Publics
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!
Over two
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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
conversation with graphic designer, researcher, and cultural worker Roman Karrer
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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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