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Let’s Talk About Institutional Life No. 2
Oct 12, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | group conversation
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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
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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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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, one of them facilitated by our very own Futuress co-director Maya Ober. We’ve
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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” by Mayar El-Bakry, Maya Ober, and Romi Lee explores the tales, traditions, and rituals behind anonymously designed cooking tools. Following the preparation of dishes from the South
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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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A new look and feel: our redesigned website!
Since the beginning of the year, Brazilian designers Tereza Bettinardi and Lucas D’Ascenção have lent their magic to our social media presence. Their beautiful templates help us spotlight our
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Big Bam Boom—We won a Swiss Design Award in the category of mediation!
The multidisciplinary jury who reviewed our work was impressed by the broad range of formats and offerings, including workshops, lectures, fellowships, and of course, our beloved texts. In their words:
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A collaboration with the publishing platform Piseagrama!
We are thrilled to announce our new long-term collaboration: CROSSINGS—TRAVESSIAS. Together with the Brazilian publishing platform Piseagrama, we will be working together to translate into English a series of
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Our team has a new member! Welcome, Franca López Barbera!
Our Futuress team has gone through some c-c-c-c-changes yet again! Sadly, our beloved powerhouse Cherry-Ann Davis has left Futuress to focus on her own research. Cherry has been part of
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Our new public program: Announcing upcoming lectures and panels!
We’re changing the way we structure our learning programs! In addition to the lecture series accompanying our fellowship program and curated under one topic, we will now offer various
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“The Void” by Maya Ober republished in The Funambulist!
The Void by Maya Ober has been republished by The Funambulist in their 40th issue! The Funambulist engages with the politics of space and bodies. Through articles, interviews, artworks, design
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“South is Up” by Sherine Salla in the Sign Design Society’s Newsletter!
How do maps represent the world? What ontologies lie behind the seemingly objective design of world maps, and how can the world be imagined otherwise? These are some of many
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Futuress mapped in the ARCH+ magazine!
Issue 246 of ARCH+, Germany’s leading magazine for discourse in the fields of architecture and urbanism, is dedicated to contemporary feminist spatial practices. The issue examines how different practices
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“The Dark Side of Pictograms” by Mujgan Abdulzade republished in Femiskop!
The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan were preceded by a series of racist and sexist outrages. These incidents revealed how profoundly sports are embedded in oppressive body norms and
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Celebrating together: A Futuress end-of-the-year dinner
On December 4, our tight-knit community around Basel gathered to celebrate together our pan-religious Futuress Hannukkah—Day of Iansã—Xmas—End of the Year meal. The dinner honored our different
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“Does Design Care” by Cherry-Ann Davis and Nina Paim in A Line Which Forms A Volume #5!
A Line Which Forms A Volume #5 explores how the act of leaning on, with, and into a research topic can be regarded as a form of care for the
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We are in Milan! The L.i.P Collective exhibited at HARD COPY SOFT TOUCH.
Our colorful Feminist Findings zine by the L.i.P. Collective has been touring the globe and speaking new languages! It was recently on display at the “Hard Copy Soft
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Feminist Findings in Korea! A collaboration with Platform P.
Futuress was born from a desire to think and practice design “otherwise.” Our first workshop, the L.i.P. Collective, was the fuse that sparked our model of mixing collective