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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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Unwired Currents—a new collaboration redefining technologies
Together with the think & do tank Dezentrum, we received funding from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia to collaborate with design researcher and long-time Futuress contributing editor Franca López
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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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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“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 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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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 [https://futuress.org/author/cherry/] has
left Futuress to focus on her own research.
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“The Void” by Maya Ober republished in The Funambulist!
The Void [https://futuress.org/stories/the-void/] by Maya Ober has been
republished by The Funambulist
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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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“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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“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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Together we are stronger! depatriarchise design and Futuress have merged!
depatriarchise design
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and Futuress have been steady collaborators for a long time. Even before the
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“The power of Identity”—Mio and Mujgan speaking at the Weltformat Festival, Luzern!
Futuress was invited to speak at the 2021 Weltformat Graphic Design Festival
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in Luzern! Under
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A new lecture series: A collaboration with Centre Culturel Suisse Paris!
“Pandemics do not materialize in isolation,” Edna Bonhomme, a historian of
science, has rightly pointed out. “They are part and parcel of capitalism and
colonization.” A crisis brings to light
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We have sprouted a new team: Welcome, Cherry-Ann Davis, Maya Ober, Mio Kojima, and Sacha Fortuné!
At the beginning of 2021, our co-founding editors Eliot Gisel
[http://corinnegisel.com/] and Madeleine Morley
[https://madeleinemorley.cargo.site/] left Futuress to work on new
initiatives—we thank them
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Depatriarchise design and Futuress speaking at the Design Academy Eindhoven!
In a public lecture at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Maya Ober and Anja
Neidhardt from depatriarchise design, together with Madeleine Morley and Nina
Paim from Futuress, shared a few insights
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Who is Futuress? Introducing our founding editors: Eliot Gisel, Madelaine Morley, and Nina Paim!
Eliot Gisel [https://futuress.org/author/eliot/] is a Swiss journalist, editor,
and researcher exploring topics such as design education, dress culture, city
politics, visual rhetorics of resistance, LGBTQIA+ activism,
