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#Designing Resistance
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Not a Matter of the Past
How lesbian feminist tactics and strategies can help us overcome struggles of today.
#radical imaginations
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Making Room
Transforming homes from sites of carcerality into spaces for abolitionist imagination.
#Making and Unmaking
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Un-sustaining Sustainability?
Tracing the colonial origins of India’s rising “sustainable” fashion industry
#Vulnerable Observers
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
#coding resistance
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Once an Assistant, Always an Assistant
How AI representation is stuck in the gendered past.
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#Making and Unmaking
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Wokefishing
The pretensive premise of progressive views, and the false activism in the fashion industry.
#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
#Designing Resistance
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“They are killing us”
How Peruvian designers are reshaping the way we see femicide.
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#Politics of Display
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South is Up
On subjective worlds, alternative Earths, and map projections.
#Feminist Curricula
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The Last Shift
Field notes from La Entrega Final, or how feminist activism plays itself in the Chair of Gender and Design at FADU, Buenos Aires.
#Against the Grain
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Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns
Artist Lawrence Lemaoana on coding narratives into textiles and his uneasy relationship with the art world.
#Politics of Display
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The Interlocality of Typography
A conversation with Yu Jiwon about the suggestions of typographic diversity in society and culture.
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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.
#Politics of Display
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Preserve, Revise, Remove, Radicalize
Monuments and memorials in the United States of America after 2020.
#Image Matters
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The Dark Side of Pictograms
How sports—in particular the Olympics—perpetuate multiple systems of oppression.
#Objects of Interest
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Hi Vis
Toxic Trades, Constructed Masculinity & The Vibrance of Anonymity.
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Designing with/against Cherophobia
In search of haps, untrodden paths, and wayward futurities.
#Designing Resistance
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Designing with/against Cherophobia
In search of haps, untrodden paths, and wayward futurities.
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Enough is Enough
Art & Design students lead the charge to expose the abusive underbelly of France's education system.
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#Complaint Collective
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Enough is Enough
Art & Design students lead the charge to expose the abusive underbelly of France's education system.
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Design Without Design
Reflections from a transdisciplinary workshop for exhibition making and unmaking at the heart of the Dhaka Art Summit.
#Politics of Display
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Design Without Design
Reflections from a transdisciplinary workshop for exhibition making and unmaking at the heart of the Dhaka Art Summit.
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#Pedagogies of Freedom
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
#Complaint Collective
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Long Nights
Do art universities educate students to exploit themselves? Short answer: Yes.
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Publishing is Being Present
How Maria Lamas surreptitiously used a fashion weekly to resist the dictatorship, question gender norms and encourage emancipation.
#Designing Resistance
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Publishing is Being Present
How Maria Lamas surreptitiously used a fashion weekly to resist the dictatorship, question gender norms and encourage emancipation.
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#Politics of Display
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In the Name of ♥
Claiming the Semiotics of Power, Colonialism & Capitalism.
#Designing Resistance
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The Labyrinth to the Pomegranate Tree
At the Root of Conformity, Adaptation, and the Cyclical Nature of Change
#Designing Resistance
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The Labyrinth to the Pomegranate Tree
At the Root of Conformity, Adaptation, and the Cyclical Nature of Change.
#Designing Resistance
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Queer Dreams of an A.I.
A conversation with Lucas LaRochelle on counter-mapping, artificial intelligence, and queer relationality.
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#coding resistance
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Queer Dreams of an A.I.
A conversation with Lucas LaRochelle on counter-mapping, artificial intelligence, and queer relationality.