From February to June 2024, an exciting line-up of speakers will share how they bring disability justice into the classroom, tackle systemic discrimination in design institutions, challenge hegemonic narratives in design history, attempt to decolonize and depatriarchalize design curricula, and much more!
![Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production](/content/images/2024/02/Hero_Florencia.png)
#Designing Resistance
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Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production
How cartoneros in Buenos Aires paved the way to social and environmental sustainability.
![Navigating the Culture of Critique](/content/images/2024/01/Hero_Twisha.png)
#Feminist Curricula
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
![A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language](/content/images/2024/01/Hero_Lebo.png)
#Designing Resistance
members
A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
![Designing Belief: A Journey into the Sacred Art of Phrakhreūang](/content/images/2023/08/Title-Image.jpg)
#Objects of Interest
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Designing Belief: A Journey into the Sacred Art of Phrakhreūang
How tradition, history, and social development converge in Thailand’s amulet culture.
![A Tribute to Feira Do Pau](/content/images/2023/07/Hero_Iany.jpg)
#Objects of Interest
members
A Tribute to Feira Do Pau
A stroll through Maputo’s Ebony Market and the relational power of Mozambican design.
Our events
![Design Educators* Unite!](/content/images/2023/11/Hero_DEU.png)
![Mocha Celis: We Dare to Build the World We Want to Live In](/content/images/2024/04/DEU_Hero_MC-1.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Mocha Celis: We Dare to Build the World We Want to Live In
July 4, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture with Francisco Quiñones Cuartas and Virginia Silveira from Mocha Celis | co-moderated with Paulina Ojeda
![Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_Nina.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care
June 19, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Nina Mühlemann
![Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 1](/content/images/2024/05/Hero_LT_Workshopping1.png)
#Let’s Talk
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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
![Design as Mediation: On the Everyday Politics of Space-Making Practices](/content/images/2024/05/Hero_roundtable_v3.png)
#Educators In Correspondence
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Design as Mediation: On the Everyday Politics of Space-Making Practices
June 15, 2024 | 5:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
![Design and Other Ways of Knowing](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_Ramia.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Design and Other Ways of Knowing
June 13, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Ramia Mazé
![Feminist Killjoy Design Pedagogy: On Emphasizing Joy](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_Elizabeth3.jpg)
#Design Educators* Unite!
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Feminist Killjoy Design Pedagogy: On Emphasizing Joy
June 6, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Elizabeth Chin
![On Autoethnographic Filmmaking](/content/images/2024/04/Hero_Solveig-final.png)
#Futuress Tutorial
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On Autoethnographic Filmmaking
May 25, 2024 | 4 pm CEST | online and at InfoSpace Basel, Switzerland | free | with Solveig Qu Suess | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
![Visual Narratives of Resistance: Graphic Design and the Palestinian Movement](/content/images/2024/04/Hero_Ghalia_Engy-final-2.png)
#Futuress Keynote
members
Visual Narratives of Resistance: Graphic Design and the Palestinian Movement
May 15, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | with Engy Aly and Ghalia Elsrakbi | co-moderated with Randa Hadi
![Social Design Practices: From the Popular Neighborhoods to the Faculty of Design](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_AUGE.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
members
Social Design Practices: From the Popular Neighborhoods to the Faculty of Design
May 2, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Auge FADU | co-moderated with Abigail Schreider
![A crayon and marker drawing with different kinds of marks across the page. Two forms on the drawing read like “ON” or “NO.”](/content/images/2024/04/Hero_Ren_final.jpeg)
#Designing Resistance
members
On Rehearsing Access
Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders.
Our events
![Design Educators* Unite!](/content/images/2023/11/Hero_DEU.png)
![Mocha Celis: We Dare to Build the World We Want to Live In](/content/images/2024/04/DEU_Hero_MC-1.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
members
Mocha Celis: We Dare to Build the World We Want to Live In
July 4, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture with Francisco Quiñones Cuartas and Virginia Silveira from Mocha Celis | co-moderated with Paulina Ojeda
![Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_Nina.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
members
Crip Spacetime and Utopias of Care
June 19, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Nina Mühlemann
![Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 1](/content/images/2024/05/Hero_LT_Workshopping1.png)
#Let’s Talk
members
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
![Design as Mediation: On the Everyday Politics of Space-Making Practices](/content/images/2024/05/Hero_roundtable_v3.png)
#Educators In Correspondence
members
Design as Mediation: On the Everyday Politics of Space-Making Practices
June 15, 2024 | 5:30 pm CEST | Messe Basel | free | with Habib Asfar and Mara Züst from the Mini-Zine-Library | co-organized with the Swiss Design Awards
![Design and Other Ways of Knowing](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_Ramia.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
members
Design and Other Ways of Knowing
June 13, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Ramia Mazé
![Feminist Killjoy Design Pedagogy: On Emphasizing Joy](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_Elizabeth3.jpg)
#Design Educators* Unite!
members
Feminist Killjoy Design Pedagogy: On Emphasizing Joy
June 6, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Elizabeth Chin
![On Autoethnographic Filmmaking](/content/images/2024/04/Hero_Solveig-final.png)
#Futuress Tutorial
members
On Autoethnographic Filmmaking
May 25, 2024 | 4 pm CEST | online and at InfoSpace Basel, Switzerland | free | with Solveig Qu Suess | co-hosted with Brand-New-Life
![Visual Narratives of Resistance: Graphic Design and the Palestinian Movement](/content/images/2024/04/Hero_Ghalia_Engy-final-2.png)
#Futuress Keynote
members
Visual Narratives of Resistance: Graphic Design and the Palestinian Movement
May 15, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | free | with Engy Aly and Ghalia Elsrakbi | co-moderated with Randa Hadi
![Social Design Practices: From the Popular Neighborhoods to the Faculty of Design](/content/images/2024/01/DEU_Hero_AUGE.png)
#Design Educators* Unite!
members
Social Design Practices: From the Popular Neighborhoods to the Faculty of Design
May 2, 2024 | 6 pm CEST | online | lecture within the Design Educators* Unite paid course | with Auge FADU | co-moderated with Abigail Schreider
Contributors
![Nina Paim](/content/images/size/w300/2022/08/Futuress_team_nina.jpg)
Nina Paim
(she/her) Curator, Editor & Researcher, Brazil/Switzerland
![Maya Ober](/content/images/size/w300/2022/08/Futuress_team_maya.jpg)
Maya Ober
(she/her) Anthropologist, Educator and Designer, Tel Aviv-Basel
![Cherrypye](/content/images/size/w300/2023/11/Futuress_author_cherry_new.png)
Cherrypye
(she/her) Creator, Educator & Researcher, Trinidad & Tobago/Switzerland
![Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_luiza.jpg)
Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins
(she/her) Artist & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
![Mio Kojima](/content/images/size/w300/2023/06/Futuress_author_mio-1.png)
Mio Kojima
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Germany/Japan
![Naïma Ben Ayed](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_naima.jpg)
Naïma Ben Ayed
(she/her) Type designer & Graphic Designer, France
![Mujgan Abdulzade](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_mujgan.jpg)
Mujgan Abdulzade
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Azerbaijan/Germany
![Franca López Barbera](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Futuress_author_franca.jpg)
Franca López Barbera
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Argentina/Germany
![Sherine Salla](/content/images/size/w300/2021/08/Futuress_author_sherine.jpg)
Sherine Salla
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Egypt
![Iskander Guetta](/content/images/size/w300/2023/04/Futuress_author_iskander.jpg)
Iskander Guetta
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Morocco
![For Us, With Us, By Us](/content/images/size/w300/2023/03/Futuress_author_fubu.jpg)
For Us, With Us, By Us
A conversation series by SWANA designers, practitioners, educators, and researchers
![Eliot C. Gisel](/content/images/size/w300/2022/08/Futuress_team_eliot.jpg)
Eliot C. Gisel
(they/them) Journalist, Editor & Researcher, Switzerland
![Floriane Fo Misslin](/content/images/size/w300/2022/11/Futuress_author_floriane-2.jpg)
Floriane Fo Misslin
(they/them) Researcher & Sociologist, France/United Kingdom
![Noemi Parisi](/content/images/size/w300/2021/01/Futuress_author_noemi.jpg)
Noemi Parisi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland
![Danah Abdulla](/content/images/size/w300/2021/01/Futuress_author_danah-1.jpg)
Danah Abdulla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Palestine/Canada/U.K.
![Tessel ten Zweege](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_tessel.jpg)
Tessel ten Zweege
(she/her) Journalist & Activist, The Netherlands
![Keyna Eleison](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Author_keyna.jpg)
Keyna Eleison
(she/her) Writer, Researcher, Shaman, Narrator, Singer & Ancestral Chronicler
![Heba Daghistani](/content/images/size/w300/2021/05/Futuress_author_heba.jpg)
Heba Daghistani
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
![Isabel Duarte](/content/images/size/w300/2021/05/Futuress_author_isabel.jpg)
Isabel Duarte
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Portugal/United Kingdom
![Sophie Thurner](/content/images/size/w300/2021/06/Futuress_author_sophie.jpg)
Sophie Thurner
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
![Imad Gebrayel](/content/images/size/w300/2022/09/Futuress_author_imad.jpg)
Imad Gebrayel
(he/him) Designer, Educator & Researcher, Lebanon/Germany
![Mayar El Bakry](/content/images/size/w300/2022/10/Futuress_author_mayar.jpg)
Mayar El Bakry
(she/her/non) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
![Lebogang Mokoena](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_lebo.jpg)
Lebogang Mokoena
(they/them) Journalist & Researcher, South Africa
![Ghalia Elsrakbi](/content/images/size/w300/2021/01/Futuress_author_ghalia.jpg)
Ghalia Elsrakbi
(she/her) Designer, researcher & educator, Syria/Egypt
![Evan Nicole Brown](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_Evan_Brown.jpg)
Evan Nicole Brown
(she/her) Writer, Reporter & Editor, United States
![Hayfaa Chalabi](/content/images/size/w300/2023/01/Futuress_author_Hayfaa.jpg)
Hayfaa Chalabi
(she/her) Designer & Illustrator, Iraq/London
![Neo Maditla](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_Neo.jpg)
Neo Maditla
(she/her) Journalist, Editor & Content Strategist, South Africa
![Sria Chatterjee](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Futuress_author_sria.jpg)
Sria Chatterjee
(she/her) Art Historian & Environmental Humanities Scholar, India/United Kingdom
![Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Futuress_author_tasheka.jpg)
Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton
(she/her) Artist, Educator, Designer, & Researcher, United States
![Centre Culturel Suisse](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Author_ccs.jpg)
Centre Culturel Suisse
Cultural Centre, Exhibition Space, Theatre & Bookshop, France
![Inteza Shariar](/content/images/size/w300/2021/06/Futuress_author_inteza.jpg)
Inteza Shariar
(he/him) Architect, Designer & Artist, Bangladesh
![Dries Rodet](/content/images/size/w300/2021/06/Futuress_author_dries-1.jpg)
Dries Rodet
(he/him) Architect, France/Belgium/Switzerland
![Diana Campbell Betancourt](/content/images/size/w300/2021/06/Futuress_author_diana.jpg)
Diana Campbell Betancourt
(she/her) Curator & Researcher, Brussels/Dhaka
![Prem Krishnamurthy](/content/images/size/w300/2021/06/Futuress_author_prem.jpg)
Prem Krishnamurthy
(he/him) Designer, Curator, Writer & Teacher, Germany/United States
![Les Mots de Trop](/content/images/size/w300/2021/06/Futuress_author_LesMotsdeTrop.jpg)
Les Mots de Trop
Activism & Graphic Design Collective, France
![Lucas LaRochelle](/content/images/size/w300/2021/08/Futuress_author_lucas.jpg)
Lucas LaRochelle
(they/them) Designer & Researcher, Canada
![Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola](/content/images/size/w300/2022/11/Futuress_author_beatrace.jpg)
Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Fashion Curator, Creative Producer, African Fashion Advocate & Lecturer, Uganda/Germany
![Lauren Williams](/content/images/size/w300/2021/10/Futuress_Lauren.png)
Lauren Williams
(she/her) Designer, Organizer, Researcher & Educator, United States
![Tai Linhares](/content/images/size/w300/2021/12/Futuress_author_tai.jpg)
Tai Linhares
(she/her) Designer, Filmmaker & Visual Artist, Brazil/Germany
![Bec Wonders](/content/images/size/w300/2022/03/Futuress_author_bec.jpg)
Bec Wonders
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Illustrator, UK/Canada
![Tanveer Ahmed](/content/images/size/w300/2022/04/Futuress_author_tanveer-1.jpg)
Tanveer Ahmed
(she/her) Design Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom
![Randa Hadi](/content/images/size/w300/2022/03/Futuress_author_randa.jpg)
Randa Hadi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Kuwait/Unites States
![Tereza Bettinardi](/content/images/size/w300/2022/08/Futuress_team_tereza.jpg)
Tereza Bettinardi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Editor, Brazil
![Nada Ezzeldin](/content/images/size/w300/2022/08/Futuress_author_nada.jpg)
Nada Ezzeldin
(she/her) Independent Designer, Egypt
![Francisca Khamis Giacoman](/content/images/size/w300/2022/10/Futuress_author_francisca.jpg)
Francisca Khamis Giacoman
(she/her) Artist & Designer, Palestine/Chile/The Netherlands
![The Big Fat Bao](/content/images/size/w300/2023/02/Futuress_author_bao-1.jpg)
The Big Fat Bao
(she/they) Illustrator & researcher, India
![Ren Loren Britton](/content/images/size/w300/2023/05/Futuress_author_ren.png)
Ren Loren Britton
(they/them) Artist & Researcher, Germany/in Online Interdependencies
![etceteras](/content/images/size/w300/2023/06/Etceteras_Ex-libris-ENOrange2-1.png)
etceteras
Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing, Portugal
![Layla Gharib](/content/images/size/w300/2023/11/Futuress_author_layla.png)
Layla Gharib
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, United Kingdom/Iraq
![Josefina Vidal](/content/images/size/w300/2023/11/Futuress_author_josefina.png)
Josefina Vidal
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Chile/United Kingdom
![Sloan Leo Cowan](/content/images/size/w300/2023/11/Futuress_author_sloan.png)
Sloan Leo Cowan
(they/he) Community Designer, Facilitator & Educator, United States
![Auge FADU](/content/images/size/w300/2023/12/Futuress_author_auge-1.png)
Auge FADU
Student Movement, Argentina
![Elizabeth Chin](/content/images/size/w300/2023/11/Futuress_author_elizabeth.png)
Elizabeth Chin
(she/her) Ethnographer, Maker & Doer, United States/Haiti/Taiwan
![Ramia Mazé](/content/images/size/w300/2023/11/Futuress_author_ramia.png)
Ramia Mazé
(she/her) Design Researcher, United Kingdom
![Clara Meliande](/content/images/size/w300/2023/12/Futuress_author_clara.png)
Clara Meliande
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Brazil
![Nina Mühlemann](/content/images/size/w300/2023/12/Futuress_author_nina_mu-hlemann-1.png)
Nina Mühlemann
(they/she) Artist & Disability Scholar, Switzerland
![Brand-New-Life](/content/images/size/w300/2024/02/Futuress_author_bnl.png)
Brand-New-Life
Online Magazine, Switzerland
![Virginia Silveira](/content/images/size/w300/2024/03/Futuress_Virginia_Final-1.jpg)
Virginia Silveira
(She/her) Educator & Activist, Argentina
![Francisco Quiñones Cuartas](/content/images/size/w300/2024/03/Futuress_Francisco_Final.jpg)
Francisco Quiñones Cuartas
(She/he) Educator, Social Entrepreneur & Activist, Argentina
![Bruna Benevides](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_bruna.jpg)
Bruna Benevides
(she/her) Activist, Brazil
![Sophia Yuet See](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_sophia.jpg)
Sophia Yuet See
(they/them) Multimedia artist, United Kingdom/Austria
![Mariachiara De Leo](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_mariachiara.jpg)
Mariachiara De Leo
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Italy
![Madeleine Morley](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_maddy.jpg)
Madeleine Morley
(she/her) Writer & Editor, United Kingdom/Germany
![Zenobia Ahmed](/content/images/size/w300/2020/11/Futuress_author_zenobia.jpg)
Zenobia Ahmed
(she/her) Graphic designer & Researcher, Australia
![Phoebe Eustance](/content/images/size/w300/2020/12/Futuress_author_phoebe-2.jpg)
Phoebe Eustance
(they/them) Interdisciplinary Artist-Researcher, United Kingdom
![Yanchi Huang](/content/images/size/w300/2020/12/Futuress_author_yanchi.jpg)
Yanchi Huang
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, Taiwan/United States
![Pauline Piguet](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_pauline.jpg)
Pauline Piguet
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Switzerland
![Fanny Maurel](/content/images/size/w300/2021/01/Futuress_author_fanny.jpg)
Fanny Maurel
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, France
![Carolyn Kerchof](/content/images/size/w300/2021/01/Futuress_author_carolyn.jpg)
Carolyn Kerchof
(she/her) Writer & Designer, United States
![Amy Gowen](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_amy.jpg)
Amy Gowen
(she/her) Researcher, Writer, Editor & Curator, United Kingdom/The Netherlands
![Barbora Demovičová](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_barbora.jpg)
Barbora Demovičová
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Slovakia/Germany
![Klaudia Mazur](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_klaudia.jpg)
Klaudia Mazur
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany
![Eugénie Zuccarelli](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_eugenie.jpg)
Eugénie Zuccarelli
(she/her) Designer, France
![Dorsa Javaherian](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_Dorsa.jpg)
Dorsa Javaherian
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Iran/Germany
![Luana de Almeida](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_luana.jpg)
Luana de Almeida
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany
![Helena Ramos](/content/images/size/w300/2021/02/Futuress_author_helena.jpg)
Helena Ramos
(she/her) Cultural Manager & Producer, Brazil
![Clara Amante](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author-clara.jpg)
Clara Amante
(she/her) Researcher, Author & Organizer, Portugal
![Delphine Bedel](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_delphine.jpg)
Delphine Bedel
(she/her) Artist, Lecturer, Writer & Publisher, France/The Netherlands
![Nina Reis](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_nina_reis.jpg)
Nina Reis
(she/her) Designer and Researcher, Brazil
![Sabrina Stallone](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_Sabrina.jpg)
Sabrina Stallone
(she/her) Social Anthropologist, Switzerland
![Katharina Brenner](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_katharina.jpg)
Katharina Brenner
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Germany
![Silva Baum](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_silva.jpg)
Silva Baum
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Germany
![Loraine Furter](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_loraine.jpg)
Loraine Furter
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Switzerland/Belgium
![Elham Namvar](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Futuress_author_elham.jpg)
Elham Namvar
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, United Arab Emirates
![Maryam Fanni](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Maryam.jpg)
Maryam Fanni
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Educator & Researcher, Sweden
![Elio Raimondi](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Elio.jpg)
Elio Raimondi
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Italy
![Vittoria Pugliese](/content/images/size/w300/2021/03/Vittoria.jpg)
Vittoria Pugliese
(she/her) Furniture Designer, Italy
![Edna Bonhomme](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Futuress_author_edna.jpg)
Edna Bonhomme
(she/her) Historian, Writer & Interdisciplinary Artist, United States/Germany
![Uzma Rizvi](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Futuress_author_uzma.jpg)
Uzma Rizvi
(she/her) Anthropological Archaeologist, Cultural Archaeologist & Curator, Pakistan/United States
![Bahia Shehab](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Futuress_author_bahia.jpg)
Bahia Shehab
(she/her) Multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Activist & Historian, Egypt
![Fiona Cameron](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Author_fiona.jpg)
Fiona Cameron
(she/her) Researcher, Curator & Activist Academic
![Ramaya Tegegne](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Author_ramaya.jpg)
Ramaya Tegegne
(she/her)Artist & Cultural Organizer, Switzerland
![Lucia Pietroiusti](/content/images/size/w300/2021/04/Author_lucia.jpg)
Lucia Pietroiusti
(she/her) Curator & Researcher
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Rhys Atkinson
Graphic Designer, United Kingdom
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Riccardo Righi
(he/him) Designer and Researcher, Italy/United Kingdom
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Charlie Thomas
(they/them) Writer & Designer, France
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Ece Canlı
(she/her) Researcher, Artist & Musician, Portugal/Turkey
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Mauricio Vargas
(he/him) Designer & Researcher, United States
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Michael Bojkowski
(he/him) Designer, Writer & Educator, Australia
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Rachel So Dam Jung
(she/her) Graphic Designer, United Kingdom/South Korea
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Aimi Hamraie
(they/them) Designer & Disability Researcher, Iran/United States
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Marwa Fatafta
(she/her) Digital Rights Activist & Researcher, Palestine/Germany
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Morehshin Allahyari
(she/her) Activist, Artist, Writer & Educator, Iran/United States
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Maryam Mustafa
(she/her) Computer Scientist & Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, Pakistan
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Timnit Gebru
(she/her) AI Ethics Researcher, Computer Scientist & Activist, United States
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Minna Salami
(she/her) Writer, Feminist Theorist & Lecturer, Nigeria/Finland/Sweden
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Iyo Bisseck
(she/her) Activist, Designer, Researcher & Artist, France/Cameroon
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Nakeema Stefflbauer
(she/her) Technology Researcher, United States/Germany
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Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena
(she/her) Writer, Researcher & Educator, Germany/Sweden
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Laya Chirravuru
(she/her) Fashion Designer & Researcher, India/Germany
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Nina Jun Yuchi
(she/her) Designer, United States/Narragansett Land
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Amelie Goldfuß
(she/her) Artist, Designer & Educator, Germany
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Natalie Sontopski
(she/her) Sociologist, Historian & Researcher, Germany
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Adriana Rojas Víquez
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom
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Abigail Schreider
(she/her) Service Designer, Argentina/Germany
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Dior Thiam
(she/her) Visual Artist, Germany
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Naiara Yumiko
(she/her) Urban Designer & Creative Artworker, Brazil/United Kingdom
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Carlotta Trippa
(she/her) Architect & Urban Designer, Italy/United Kingdom
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Carmem Saito
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Brazil/Germany/UK
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Javier Syquia
(he/him) Designer, USA/Hong Kong/Philippines
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Johanna Lewengard
(she/her) Communication Designer & Educator, Sweden
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Benedetta Crippa
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Sweden
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Engagement Arts NL
Artist-led Movement, The Netherlands
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The Racial Justice Student Collective
Student Collective, Switzerland
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Gráinne Donohue
(she/her) Organizer & Researcher, France
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Ritupriya Basu
(she/her) Design Writer, India
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Maria Kruglyak
(she/her) Researcher, Editor & Artist, Portugal/Russia/United Kingdom
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Zoy Anastassakis
(she/her) Designer & Anthropologist, Brazil
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Griselda Flesler
(she/her) Researcher & Educator, Argentina
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Lesley-Ann Noel
(she/her) Design Educator, United States/Trinidad & Tobago
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Divya Rathod
(she/her) Landscape Architect & Design Researcher, India/Germany
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Mariangela Beccoi
(she/her) Designer & Researcher, Italy/Germany
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Sinem Görücü
(she/her) Architect, Designer & Researcher, United Kingdom/Turkey
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Jerá Guarani
(she/her) Educator, Activist & Leader, Tenondé Porã Indigenous Land
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Aasawari Kulkarni
(she/her) Designer, Educator & Writer, USA/India
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Pallavi Keshri
(she/her) Visual Artist & Communication Designer, India/Switzerland
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Eva Gonçalves
(she/her) Graphic designer, Researcher & Educator, Portugal/Germany
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Hamza Bashandy
(he/him) Architect & Game Designer
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Sacha Fortuné
(she/her) Writer & Editor, Trinidad & Tobago
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Noura Tafeche
(she/her) Artist & Independent Researcher, Italy/Palestine
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Zainab Marvi
(she/her) Designer, Researcher, Illustrator & Educator, Pakistan/Germany
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Leonardo de Vasconcelos Santana
(he/him) Designer, wishful Writer & Researcher, Brazil/United Kingdom
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Mahmoud Keshavarz
(he/him) Writer & Researcher, Sweden/Iran
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Isabella Barroso
(she/her) Bruxa-ciborgue, Technologist, Researcher & Journalist, Brazil
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Mirna Bamieh
(she/her) Artist, Palestine
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Gabriela Aquije Zegarra
(she/her) Architect & Researcher, Switzerland/Peru
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Eva Jack
(she/her) Artist & Educator, Scotland
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Tina Omayemi Reden
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Switzerland
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Amanda Lorentzon
(she/her/non) Transdisciplinary Designer, Sweden/United States
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Orly Noy
(she/her) Editor, Activist & Translator, Iran/Israel
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Shirin Ebadi
(she/her) Activist & Lawyer, Iran/United Kingdom
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Danielle Harris
(she/they) Fashion Designer & Educator, Switzerland
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Bibiana Oliveira Serpa
(she/her) Design Researcher, Educator & Activist, Brazil
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Isabelle Winkler
(she/her) Writer & Editor, Germany/Australia
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Veronika Larsson
(she/her) Graphic Designer & Writer, Sweden
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Vera Sacchetti
(she/her) Design Critic & Curator, Portugal/Switzerland
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Karoline Buer
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Norway
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Loana Gatti
(she/her) Pluridisciplinary Artist & Researcher, Switzerland
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Mani Deepa Barla
(she/her) Industrial Designer, India
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Yatharth
(he/him) Researcher, India
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Cooperativa de Diseño
Political Design Organization, Argentina
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Antônio Bispo dos Santos
(he/him) Poet, Writer, Teacher & Political Activist, Brazil
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Mindy Seu
(she/they), Designer, Technologist & Researcher, United States
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Benjamin Ryser & Dorothy Wong Ka Chung 黃加頌 (o!sland)
Artist duo, Hong Kong & Switzerland
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Mohamed Gaber
(he/him) Type Designer, Graphic Designer & Visual Artist, Egypt
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Maha Akl
(she/her) Type Designer, Egypt
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Sahar Afshar
(she/her) Typeface Designer & Printing Historian, Iran/United Kingdom
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Victoria Nascimento Veiga
(she/her) Fashion & Shoe Designer, Brazil
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Decolonising Design
A group of critical design researchers, artists, and activists
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Iany Gayo
(she/her) Designer, Portugal/Mozambique
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Napisa Leelasuphapong
(she/her) Graphic designer & Writer, Thailand
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Afonso de Matos
(he/him) Graphic Designer, Portugal
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Paola De Martin
(she/her) Scholar Activist & Design Historian, Switzerland/Italy
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Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
(she/her) Architectural researcher, Designer & Performer, Switzerland/ South Africa
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Amanda Haas
(she/they) Graphic Designer, Lecturer, Publisher & Researcher, Switzerland/Egypt
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Twisha Mehta
(she/they) Researcher and Communications Facilitator
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Florencia Fontenla
(she/her) Designer, Researcher & Educator, Argentina
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Engy Aly
(she/her) Graphic Designer, Researcher & Curator, Egypt
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Solveig Qu Suess
(she/her) Researcher, Filmmaker & Artist, Switzerland/Germany
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Geanine Escobar
(she/her) Academic-Activist, Cultural Producer, Audio-Descriptor & Conservator-Restorer, Portugal
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Habib Asfar
(he/none) Expressive Arts Practitioner, Relational Artist & Public Health Physician, nomadic
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Mara Züst
(she/her) Artist, Cultural Pedagogue & Researcher, Switzerland
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Mini-Zine-Library
Community Art Project, nomadic
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Noureldin Ahmed
(he/him) Researcher, Egypt
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Nadia Ghanem
(she/her) Filmmaker, Egypt
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Nadia Mounier
(she/her) Visual Artist, Egypt
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Farah Hallaba
(she/her) Social Anthropologist & Visual Ethnographer
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Sabah Elhadid
(she/her) Interdisciplinary Artist, Independent Researcher & Graphic Designer, Egypt
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Rasha Dakkak
(she/her) Designer & Educator, Palestine
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Morgan Brown
(he/him) Software Engineer, United States/Germany
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#Complaint Collective: Exposing abuse and discrimination in design education.
![Does Design Care?](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Care-1.jpg)
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
![Enough is Enough](/content/images/2022/04/Hero_LesMots.jpg)
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Enough is Enough
Art & Design students lead the charge to expose the abusive underbelly of France's education system.
![Long Nights](/content/images/2022/06/Hero_Sophie-1.jpg)
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Long Nights
Do art universities educate students to exploit themselves? Short answer: Yes.
![Glowing Red Letters](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Katharina.jpg)
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
![Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions](/content/images/2022/05/Hero_Tessel_CC.jpg)
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Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions
An anonymous Instagram account cries for accountability in the Dutch art and design scene. What happens next?
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![Oh, Dear Diversity](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Dorsa.jpg)
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
![Diversity Issues](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_DiversityIssues.jpg)
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
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#Designing Resistance
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On Rehearsing Access
Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders.
![Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production](/content/images/2024/02/Hero_Florencia.png)
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Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production
How cartoneros in Buenos Aires paved the way to social and environmental sustainability.
![A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language](/content/images/2024/01/Hero_Lebo.png)
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A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
![On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design](/content/images/2023/02/Hero_bao.jpg)
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On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design
What using a debrahaminizing lens tells us about power relations and discrimination in the Indian design practice and education.
![Multiple Feminisms, Collective Struggles](/content/images/2023/01/Hero_Maya-5.jpg)
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Multiple Feminisms, Collective Struggles
How Argentina’s 35th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Travesti, Intersex, Bisexual, and Non-Binary shapes feminisms in 2022.
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MOTHER TONGUE / מאַמע-לשון / MAME LUSHEN
What designing an interscriptual typeface tells us about legibility, Jewish visual culture and the feeling of inbetweenship.
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“Democracy in Iran will arrive through women”
Feminist activist Shirin Ebadi discusses why the women-led protests in Iran may herald the regime change.
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“Me All Around You:” Listening Practices In The Digital
Francisca Khamis Giacoman and Tina Omayemi Reden discuss Skype’s heyday, attentive listening, and why there is no “one” digital space.
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