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.
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Nina Paim
(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland
Maya Ober
(she/her) Anthropologist, Educator & Designer, Tel Aviv-Basel
Cherrypye
(she/her) Creator, Educator & Researcher, Trinidad & Tobago/Switzerland
Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins
(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
Mio Kojima
(they/them) Designer, Educator, Publisher & Researcher, Germany/Japan
Materia Oscura
Anti-Educational Platform
Franca López Barbera
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany
Farah Hallaba
(she/her) Social Anthropologist & Visual Ethnographer, Egypt
Design History Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Imad Gebrael
(he/him) Designer & Anthropologist, Lebanon/Germany
Naïma Ben Ayed
(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France
Heba Daghistani
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
Iskander Guetta
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco
Floriane Fo Misslin
(they/them) Researcher & Design Educator, France/United Kingdom
Mujgan Abdulzade
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany
Brand-New-Life
Online Magazine, Switzerland
For Us, With Us, By Us
A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa
(she/her) Design Researcher, Educator & Activist, Brazil
Sherine Salla
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt
Noemi Parisi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland
Danah Abdulla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.
Evan Nicole Brown
(she/her) Writer, Reporter & Editor, United States
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Tessel ten Zweege
(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands
Loraine Furter
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Belgium
Sria Chatterjee
(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom
Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton
(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States
Dezentrum
Think & Do Tank, Switzerland
Keyna Eleison
(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler
Nadia Mounier
(she/her) Visual Artist, Egypt
Isabel Duarte
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Portugal/United Kingdom
Sophie Thurner
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
Amanda Haas Abd el Halim
(she/they) Graphic Designer, Lecturer, Publisher & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Lucas LaRochelle
(they/them) Designer & Researcher, Canada
Mayar El Bakry
(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
Mahmoud Keshavarz
(he/him) Writer & Researcher, Sweden/Iran
Eliot C. Gisel
(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland
Nada Ezzeldin
(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt
Ann Mbuti
(she/her) Independent Writer, Switzerland
Circuit Sessions
Collective, Switzerland
Eva Chen
(she/her) Scenographer & Art Educator, Switzerland
Darcy Alexandra
(she/her) Visual Anthropologist, Filmmaker & Poet, Switzerland/The Netherlands
Sherida Kuffour
(she/her) Art Director, Design Educator & Publisher, The Netherlands/Switzerland
Hybrid Project Space
Interdisciplinary Collective, Switzerland
Ferdiansyah Thajib
(any pronouns), Researcher, Germany/Indonesia
Brigitta Isabella
(she/her), Researcher, Indonesia
Tamarra
(no pronouns), Performance Artist, Indonesia
Nicole Frei
(she/her) Costume- & Stage Designer & educator, Switzerland
Marwan Kaabour
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Artist & Writer, Lebanon/United Kingdom
Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Brown
(they/them) Advocate, Organizer, Attorney, Strategist, Scholar & Writer, Piscataway-Conoy & Susquehannock Homelands/United States
Lissa Choukrane
(she/her) Independent Researcher, Belgium
Sister Library
Art Project, India/travelling
aqui Thami
Artist, The Netherlands/India
Sticky Fingers Publishing
Intra-dependant Feminist Press, United Kingdom
Kaiya Waerea
(he/they) Writer, Designer & Publisher, Aotearoa/United Kingdom
Chimurenga
Pan-African Publishing Platform, South Africa
GenderFail
Publishing Platform, United States
Be Oakley
(they/them) Artist, Writer & Publisher, United States
Parasto Backman
(she/her) Designer & Educator, Sweden
Dana Burton
(she/her) Anthropologist, Unites States
Helen Pritchard
(they/them) Artist-Designer, Geographer, & Queer Love Theorist, Switzerland
Grace Turtle
(they/them) Independent Designer & Researcher, Colombia/Australia/The Netherlands
Anna N. Nagele
(she/her), Researcher, Educator & Editor, Austria/UK
Caos Ludd
(they/them) In-disciplined Artist, Colombia
Neema Githere
(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Kenya/United States
Lesego Bantsheng
(she/her) Researcher, Urban Designer & Landscape Architect, South Africa/the Netherlands
Laura Campaz
(they/them) Visual Artist & Graphic Designer, Colombia
Ari Melenciano
(she/her) Artist, United States
Dreaming Beyond AI
Transnational Collective & Platform
Sabah Elhadid
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Independent Researcher & Graphic Designer, Egypt
Habib Afsar
(he/none) Expressive Arts Practitioner, Relational Artist & Public Health Physician, nomadic
Francisco Quiñones Cuartas
(She/he) Educator, Social Entrepreneur & Activist, Argentina
Virginia Silveira
(She/her) Educator & Activist, Argentina
Nina Mühlemann
(they/she) Artist & Disability Scholar, Switzerland
Clara Meliande
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Brazil
Ramia Mazé
(she/her) Design Researcher, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Chin
(she/her) Ethnographer, Maker & Doer, United States/Haiti/Taiwan
Auge FADU
Student Movement, Argentina
Sloan Leo Cowan
(they/he) Community Designer, Facilitator & Educator, United States
Josefina Vidal
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Chile/United Kingdom
Layla Gharib
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom/Iraq
etceteras
Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing, Portugal
Ren Loren Britton
(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Germany/in Online Interdependencies
The Big Fat Bao
(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India
Francisca Khamis Giacoman
(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands
Tereza Bettinardi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil
Randa Hadi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States
Tanveer Ahmed
(she/her) Design Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom
Bec Wonders
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Illustrator, UK/Canada
Tai Linhares
(she/her) Designer, Filmmaker & Visual Artist, Brazil/Germany
Nakeema Stefflbauer
(she/her) Technology Researcher, United States/Germany
Timnit Gebru
(she/her) AI Ethics Researcher, Computer Scientist & Activist, United States
Bahia Shehab
(she/her) Multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Activist & Historian, Egypt
Uzma Rizvi
(she/her) Anthropological Archaeologist, Cultural Archaeologist & Curator, Pakistan/United States
Minna Salami
(she/her) Writer, Feminist Theorist & Lecturer, Nigeria/Finland/Sweden
Edna Bonhomme
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Interdisciplinary Artist, United States/Germany
Neo Maditla
(she/her) Journalist, Editor & Content Strategist, South Africa
Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Fashion Curator, Creative Producer, African Fashion Advocate & Lecturer, Uganda/Germany