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![Chasing Images](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Tasheka.jpg)
#Against the Grain
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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
![Making Room](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Lauren.jpg)
#radical imaginations
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Making Room
Transforming homes from sites of carcerality into spaces for abolitionist imagination.
![Un-sustaining Sustainability?](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Laya.jpg)
#Making and Unmaking
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Un-sustaining Sustainability?
Tracing the colonial origins of India’s rising “sustainable” fashion industry
![Imaginations of Care](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Keyna.jpg)
#Vulnerable Observers
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
![Does Design Care?](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Care-1.jpg)
#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
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![South is Up](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Sherine.jpg)
#Politics of Display
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South is Up
On subjective worlds, alternative Earths, and map projections.
![The Last Shift](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Maya.jpg)
#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.
![Hidden Messages, Repeating Patterns](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Neo.jpg)
#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.
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![The Interlocality of Typography](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Rachel.jpg)
#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.
![Hi Vis](/content/images/2021/07/Hero_Michael-1.jpg)
#Objects of Interest
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Hi Vis
Toxic Trades, Constructed Masculinity & The Vibrance of Anonymity.
![Design Without Design](/content/images/2021/06/Hero_Roundtable-1.jpg)
#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.
![Design Without Design](/content/images/2021/06/Hero_Roundtable-1.jpg)
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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.
![Learning from the Vernacular](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Clara.jpg)
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
![Learning from the Vernacular](/content/images/2021/06/Hero_Clara_new.jpg)
#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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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.
![In the Name of ♥](/content/images/2021/05/Charlie_Hero-1.jpg)
#Politics of Display
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In the Name of ♥
Claiming the Semiotics of Power, Colonialism & Capitalism.
![Before and After](/content/images/2021/04/01_final-3.png)
#Politics of Display
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Before and After
Make-over fantasies, flawed dualisms, and how two images side by side can change public space.
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![Before and After](/content/images/2021/04/01_final-3.png)
#Objects of Interest
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Before and After
Make-over fantasies, flawed dualisms, and how two images side by side can change public space.
![A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Floriane.jpg)
#Feminist Curricula
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
![A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?](/content/images/2021/03/Hero-final2.jpg)
#Pedagogies of Freedom
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
![Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_DDG.jpg)
#Voices
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) the Decolonising Design group.
![Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way](/content/images/2020/12/hero-img_ddg-2.jpg)
#Voices
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) the Decolonising Design group.
![A Bridge Between Many Worlds](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Iskander.jpg)
#Making and Unmaking
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
![A Bridge Between Many Worlds](/content/images/2020/12/hero-img_iskander.jpg)
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
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![Diversity Issues](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_DiversityIssues.jpg)
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
![Diversity Issues](/content/images/2020/12/hero-img_diversity-issues-1.jpg)
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
![Futuress Beginnings](/content/images/2022/03/Hero_Beginnings.jpg)
#LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.
![Futuress Beginnings](/content/images/2020/11/Futuress_Launch_04.jpg)
#LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.