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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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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 2
Oct 17, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
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Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise
An online fellowship and public program expanding the notion of technology beyond colonial, modernist, and solutionist views!
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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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Let’s Talk About Activist Practices No. 2
Sep 26, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | open group conversation
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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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Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 1
June 15, 2024 | 1:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | group conversation | co-moderated with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
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Futuress unveiled at the Type Electives lecture series
On April 19, 2024, Futuress co-director Maya Ober shared some behind-the-scenes
of Futuress within the Type Electives
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Futuress featured in the debut issue of Troublemakers Magazine
We are honored to be part of the very first issue of the Tokyo-based independent
magazine Troublemakers [https://troublemakers.me/]! In September 2023,
Troublemaker co-founders Manami Inoue and Yuto Miyamoto
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8M Special: Let’s Talk About Activist Practices No. 1
Mar 8, 2024 | 12 pm CET | InfoSpace Basel, Switzerland | group conversation | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
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Futuress showcased at Ravisius Textor, France!
Futuress was featured in the exhibition, reading room, and public program “
Voltolo—all-around education in contemporary graphic design practices.
[https://www.ravisiustextor.eu/spativm/voltolo]” Curated by designer Alexandru
Balgiu,
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Launching Design Educators* Unite—a lecture series sharing feminist practices from within
We are thrilled to share the launch of our latest online learning initiative, Design Educators* Unite—a program specifically crafted for design educators, researchers, and students, aiming to explore feminist
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Let’s Talk About School No. 3
Dec 14, 2023 | 6 pm CET | online | group conversation
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Etceteras festival—a collaboration immersing into feminist design and publishing!
October 2023 was all about the long-awaited and fantabulous in-person event
etceteras— feminist festival of design and publishing
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Let’s Talk About Institutional Life No. 2
Oct 26, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation | co-moderated with Heba Daghistani and Abigail Schreider
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Let’s Talk About Institutional Life No. 1
Sep 2, 2023 | 4 pm CEST | kHaus Basel | group conversation
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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices No. 3
Aug 17, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation | co-moderated with Abigail Schreider
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On-site and online—creating spaces to meet and learn
Thanks to Switzerland’s Culture Department of Kanton Basel-City, we’ve secured a
generous grant for a brand new edition of monthly Futuress Tutorials and Let’s
Talk events! Until
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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices No. 2
July 13, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation
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We are heartbroken and excited at the same time as we say Hello and Goodbye
Life throws curveballs, and Futuress’ financial struggles and the recession have also impacted our team members, who freelance for Futuress, alongside juggling their other jobs and family commitments.
With a
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A collective rewriting of design history with publisher Onomatopee
As part of the “Resistance Stories of Design” workshop co-organized by publisher
Onomatopee, curator Cecilia Casabona, and Futuress, five designers, researchers,
and activists came together from March to May 2023
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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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Let’s Talk About Collective Practices
May 17, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation
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Let’s Talk About School No. 2
Apr 19, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation
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A Futuress workshop: Unveiling resistance stories with publisher Onomatopee
To explore possibilities for re-writing design history, the Dutch publisher
Onomatopee has organized six HISTORICALL! workshops
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For Us, With Us, By U—a collaboration centering stories from the SWANA region!
How can Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) designers, educators, and
researchers imagine transnational identities beyond Western worldviews? This is
one of the core questions driving For Us, With Us,
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Futuress at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
“The F*word—Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design” covers a vast range of
media, styles, discourses, and contexts in which feminist graphic design has
made its mark. The exhibition
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A small Futuress satellite in Winterthur
For a few hours on November 26, 2022, Futuress unfolded in a real space! Yes, a
physical space! Futuress co-director Nina Paim and long-standing Futuress ally
Noemi Parisi hosted a
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What can we do better? Share your thoughts!
We reach out to you—our fabulous Futuress community—for your advice and
insights. How can Futuress continue to flourish and become financially
sustainable? Let us know what we can
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“Cooking with Stories” at the Arquiteturas Film Festival in Porto, Portugal
“Cooking with Stories”
[https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/critical-cooking-show/358117/cooking-with-stories/]
by Mayar El-Bakry, Maya Ober, and Romi Lee explores the tales, traditions, and
rituals behind anonymously designed cooking tools.
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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.