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.

Learning

We offer a lively monthly program of online workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and networking events around the politics of design.

Community

Our authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed community of mostly womxn and non-binary designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.

Community

Our authors and lecturers come from a globally-dispersed community of mostly womxn and non-binary designers, writers, journalists, editors, researchers, educators, artists, activists, and beyond.

Click on each Community member and check their profiles and articles!
Nina Paim

Nina Paim

(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland
Maya Ober

Maya Ober

(she/her) Anthropologist, Educator & Designer, Tel Aviv-Basel
Cherrypye

Cherrypye

(she/her) Creator, Educator & Researcher, Trinidad & Tobago/Switzerland
Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins

Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins

(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
Mio Kojima

Mio Kojima

(they/them) Designer, Educator, Publisher & Researcher, Germany/Japan
Materia Oscura

Materia Oscura

Anti-Educational Platform
Franca López Barbera

Franca López Barbera

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany
Farah Hallaba

Farah Hallaba

(she/her) Social Anthropologist & Visual Ethnographer, Egypt
Design History Theory

Design History Theory

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Imad Gebrael

Imad Gebrael

(he/him) Designer & Anthropologist, Lebanon/Germany
Naïma Ben Ayed

Naïma Ben Ayed

(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France
Heba Daghistani

Heba Daghistani

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
Iskander Guetta

Iskander Guetta

(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco
Floriane Fo Misslin

Floriane Fo Misslin

(they/them) Researcher & Design Educator, France/United Kingdom
Mujgan Abdulzade

Mujgan Abdulzade

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany
Brand-New-Life

Brand-New-Life

Online Magazine, Switzerland
For Us, With Us, By Us

For Us, With Us, By Us

A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa

Bibiana Oliveira Serpa

(she/her) Design Researcher, Educator & Activist, Brazil
Sherine Salla

Sherine Salla

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt
Noemi Parisi

Noemi Parisi

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland
Danah Abdulla

Danah Abdulla

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.
Evan Nicole Brown

Evan Nicole Brown

(she/her) Writer, Reporter & Editor, United States
Tessel ten Zweege

Tessel ten Zweege

(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands
Loraine Furter

Loraine Furter

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Belgium
Sria Chatterjee

Sria Chatterjee

(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom
Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton

Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton

(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States
Dezentrum

Dezentrum

Think & Do Tank, Switzerland
Keyna Eleison

Keyna Eleison

(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler
Nadia Mounier

Nadia Mounier

(she/her) Visual Artist, Egypt
Isabel Duarte

Isabel Duarte

(she/her) Graphic Designer, Portugal/United Kingdom
Sophie Thurner

Sophie Thurner

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
Amanda Haas Abd el Halim

Amanda Haas Abd el Halim

(she/they) Graphic Designer, Lecturer, Publisher & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Lucas LaRochelle

Lucas LaRochelle

(they/them) Designer & Researcher, Canada
Mayar El Bakry

Mayar El Bakry

(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Mahmoud Keshavarz

Mahmoud Keshavarz

(he/him) Writer & Researcher, Sweden/Iran
Eliot C. Gisel

Eliot C. Gisel

(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland
Nada Ezzeldin

Nada Ezzeldin

(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt
Ann Mbuti

Ann Mbuti

(she/her) Independent Writer, Switzerland
Circuit Sessions

Circuit Sessions

Collective, Switzerland
Eva Chen

Eva Chen

(she/her) Scenographer & Art Educator, Switzerland
Darcy Alexandra

Darcy Alexandra

(she/her) Visual Anthropologist, Filmmaker & Poet, Switzerland/The Netherlands
Sherida Kuffour

Sherida Kuffour

(she/her) Art Director, Design Educator & Publisher, The Netherlands/Switzerland
Hybrid Project Space

Hybrid Project Space

Interdisciplinary Collective, Switzerland
Ferdiansyah Thajib

Ferdiansyah Thajib

(any pronouns), Researcher, Germany/Indonesia
Brigitta Isabella

Brigitta Isabella

(she/her), Researcher, Indonesia
Tamarra

Tamarra

(no pronouns), Performance Artist, Indonesia
Nicole Frei

Nicole Frei

(she/her) Costume- & Stage Designer & educator, Switzerland
Marwan Kaabour

Marwan Kaabour

(he/him) Graphic Designer, Artist & Writer, Lebanon/United Kingdom
Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Brown

Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Brown

(they/them) Advocate, Organizer, Attorney, Strategist, Scholar & Writer, Piscataway-Conoy & Susquehannock Homelands/United States
Lissa Choukrane

Lissa Choukrane

(she/her) Independent Researcher, Belgium
Sister Library

Sister Library

Art Project, India/travelling
aqui Thami

aqui Thami

Artist, The Netherlands/India
Sticky Fingers Publishing

Sticky Fingers Publishing

Intra-dependant Feminist Press, United Kingdom
Kaiya Waerea

Kaiya Waerea

(he/they) Writer, Designer & Publisher, Aotearoa/United Kingdom
Chimurenga

Chimurenga

Pan-African Publishing Platform, South Africa
GenderFail

GenderFail

Publishing Platform, United States
Be Oakley

Be Oakley

(they/them) Artist, Writer & Publisher, United States
Parasto Backman

Parasto Backman

(she/her) Designer & Educator, Sweden
Dana Burton

Dana Burton

(she/her) Anthropologist, Unites States
Helen Pritchard

Helen Pritchard

(they/them) Artist-Designer, Geographer, & Queer Love Theorist, Switzerland
Grace Turtle

Grace Turtle

(they/them) Independent Designer & Researcher, Colombia/Australia/The Netherlands
Anna N. Nagele

Anna N. Nagele

(she/her), Researcher, Educator & Editor, Austria/UK
Caos Ludd

Caos Ludd

(they/them) In-disciplined Artist, Colombia
Neema Githere

Neema Githere

(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Kenya/United States
Lesego Bantsheng

Lesego Bantsheng

(she/her) Researcher, Urban Designer & Landscape Architect, South Africa/the Netherlands
Laura Campaz

Laura Campaz

(they/them) Visual Artist & Graphic Designer, Colombia
Ari Melenciano

Ari Melenciano

(she/her) Artist, United States
Dreaming Beyond AI

Dreaming Beyond AI

Transnational Collective & Platform
Sabah Elhadid

Sabah Elhadid

(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Independent Researcher & Graphic Designer, Egypt
Habib Afsar

Habib Afsar

(he/none) Expressive Arts Practitioner, Relational Artist & Public Health Physician, nomadic
Francisco Quiñones Cuartas

Francisco Quiñones Cuartas

(She/he) Educator, Social Entrepreneur & Activist, Argentina
Virginia Silveira

Virginia Silveira

(She/her) Educator & Activist, Argentina
Nina Mühlemann

Nina Mühlemann

(they/she) Artist & Disability Scholar, Switzerland
Clara Meliande

Clara Meliande

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Brazil
Ramia Mazé

Ramia Mazé

(she/her) Design Researcher, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Chin

Elizabeth Chin

(she/her) Ethnographer, Maker & Doer, United States/Haiti/Taiwan
Auge FADU

Auge FADU

Student Movement, Argentina
Sloan Leo Cowan

Sloan Leo Cowan

(they/he) Community Designer, Facilitator & Educator, United States
Josefina Vidal

Josefina Vidal

(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Chile/United Kingdom
Layla Gharib

Layla Gharib

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom/Iraq
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Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing, Portugal
Ren Loren Britton

Ren Loren Britton

(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Germany/in Online Interdependencies
The Big Fat Bao

The Big Fat Bao

(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India
Francisca Khamis Giacoman

Francisca Khamis Giacoman

(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands
Tereza Bettinardi

Tereza Bettinardi

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil
Randa Hadi

Randa Hadi

(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States
Tanveer Ahmed

Tanveer Ahmed

(she/her) Design Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom
Bec Wonders

Bec Wonders

(she/her) Historian, Writer & Illustrator, UK/Canada
Tai Linhares

Tai Linhares

(she/her) Designer, Filmmaker & Visual Artist, Brazil/Germany
Nakeema Stefflbauer

Nakeema Stefflbauer

(she/her) Technology Researcher, United States/Germany
Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru

(she/her) AI Ethics Researcher, Computer Scientist & Activist, United States
Bahia Shehab

Bahia Shehab

(she/her) Multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Activist & Historian, Egypt
Uzma Rizvi

Uzma Rizvi

(she/her) Anthropological Archaeologist, Cultural Archaeologist & Curator, Pakistan/United States
Minna Salami

Minna Salami

(she/her) Writer, Feminist Theorist & Lecturer, Nigeria/Finland/Sweden
Edna Bonhomme

Edna Bonhomme

(she/her) Historian, Writer & Interdisciplinary Artist, United States/Germany
Neo Maditla

Neo Maditla

(she/her) Journalist, Editor & Content Strategist, South Africa
Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola

Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola

(she/her) Interdisciplinary Fashion Curator, Creative Producer, African Fashion Advocate & Lecturer, Uganda/Germany