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.

Lesego Bantsheng

Lesego Bantsheng, founder of Rural Futurisms, is a researcher, urban designer, and landscape architect exploring rural-urban materialities in southern Africa through storytelling and design.
Lesego Bantsheng