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Mio KojimaDesigner, Researcher & Educator.Mio Kojima Mio Kojima is a German-Japanese design educator and editor/publisher focused on the politics of creating and sharing knowledge. From facilitating to curating, Mio understands her work as a space-making practice centering criticality, community, and exchange. Along with Maya Ober, Mio is co-director of the intersectional feminist platform for design politics Futuress. ➞ Contact ➞ Instagram ➞ About Ongoing Futuress.org Co-director With Maya Ober Futuress is a hybrid between a learning community and a publishing platform with a mission to radically democratize design education and amplify marginalized voices. We host fellowship programs, organize lectures and panel discussions, curate exhibitions, and publish texts at the intersection of feminism, design, and politics! ➞ more here Diskriminierungssensibles und -kritisches Lehren und Lernen im Design | Discrimination-Sensitive and -Critical Teaching and Learning in Design Lecture and workshop with Lisa Baumgarten What is discrimination, how does it affect individuals and society as a whole, and how can we teach and learn in a discrimination-sensitive way? As an impulse from teachers for teachers, this lecture and workshop focuses on discrimination-sensitive approaches that can be integrated into teaching in parallel with structural changes (e.g., through diversity guidelines). Drawing from scholarships on anti-discriminatory educational work and our own teaching experience, we share approaches that address teachers’ and students’ individual positions and needs—from self-reflecting privileges and questioning the design canon to anti-ableist seminar preparation and non-violent interaction. Are you interested in the program? ➞ Write to us to know more! Past involvement Education Innovation LAB: Digital Sparks Mentor Mar 2023 – Mar 2024 The Digital Sparks are interdisciplinary online workshops that enable teenagers to work collaboratively on socio-politically pressing topics. Over several days, students are guided through topics such as AI and discrimination, mental health, or sustainability and supported in their journey from research to creative communication of their findings—from podcasts, speculative letters, videos, and more. Bündnis Feuer & Flamme Member Nov 2022 – Jan 2024 For a decade, various citizen initiatives have been fueling public discussion about the future of the city hall block in Berlin Kreuzberg and have since turned it into a model project of cooperative, community-oriented urban development.As one of these initiatives, Bündis Feuer & Flamme creates community happenings through an open ceramics meet-up and cooking events. Make Your School Hackdays Mentor Mar 2021 – Apr 2024 The Make Your School Hackdays are a workshop program to teach critical thinking and hands-on coding skills. Together with the kids, we closely look at their school environment and ask: What do you wish? What needs to change? How can you have an impact? The kids work in small groups within three days to build prototypes that manifest their proposals. Latest Update: Mar 2025 Teaching &Workshopping Slits in the Monolith—Activisms Beyond the Streets Reading group, crafting sessions, movie watching Gelegenheiten e.V. Berlin (DE) With Eleonora Toniolo and Mujgan Abdulzade Mar 8, 2025 Taking intersectional struggles to the street is important, and while this form of collective organizing has great power, it is not accessible to everyone. Moving through the streets for a long time, being within a mass of people, loud sounds and other sensory input, lack of childcare—many reasons can prevent one from being part of bigger events on March 8. Within the special M8 version of Slits in the Monolith, we gave space for a more intimate gathering and other forms of connecting beyond or after the demo. SHHH – ZZZZ – BRRR Soundrecording Workshop COLA TAXI OKAY, Karlsruhe (DE) With Vera Gärtner Aug 17, 2024 In “SHHH – ZZZZ – BRRR” we listened to the sounds that surround us and searched for the stories they tell. Which sounds do we hear first? What surprises us? Which sounds are so quiet or commonplace that we almost miss them? What sounds do we make while moving through the city? Do they remind us of other places? And how does the act of recording change our listening? Together, we explored Kronenplatz using different recording devices to capture urban sounds. Diskriminierungssensibles und -kritisches Lehren und Lernen im Design | Discrimination-Sensitive and -Critical Teaching and Learning in Design Workshop with Lisa Baumgarten University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund (DE) May 23, 2024 This workshop discusses discriminatory structures in design education and gives space to collectively reflect on frequently occurring issues, barriers, and insecurities. Acknowledging the peculiarities of design schools, it addresses topics such as the special relationships between teachers and students and the specific learning climate, e.g. in relation to performance pressure, networking, and visibility.With a focus on establishing collegial support structures, the workshop aims to plant first seeds of sustainable approaches for designing discrimination-sensitive teaching/learning spaces in design. Are you interested in this workshop? ➞ Write to us to know more! Beyond “Good Design” Seminar | external lecturer Berlin International University of Applied Sciences (DE) with Barbora Demovič and Mujgan Abdulzade April – June 2024 What is considered “good design”? Who decides? And why? Ideas about “good design” are often determined by written history, “iconic” designers, schools, and rule makers—usually represented by a privileged few. This affects our aesthetic preferences and perception of our own work—its quality and relevance. This seminar looks beyond the concept of “good design” and engages with visual practices that break the rules and offer diverse perspectives on the hierarchical distinctions between craft and design, as well as on gender, race/ethnicity, class, ableism, and other subjects susceptible to discrimination. Over the course of 10 weeks, the seminar reflected on how these practices challenge norms and, in turn, how norms challenge them. Walking Less Trodden Paths—Practicing Sensual Worlds Workshop HyperWerk, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW (CH) Jan 2024 Walking Less Trodden Paths—Practicing Sensual Worlds is a collection of narratives, interventions, prompts, and exercises to practice multifold ways of relating to our environment, fellow living beings, and our own bodyminds, to change perspective, listen closely, and move intentionally. Centering curiosity and exploring sensuality, they are meant to deepen our attention and create space for a togetherness that counters logics of productivity, consumption, and functionalism. Partly departing from graduation projects, these texts have been shown first within the Open House at the Basel Academy of Art and Design, Switzerland, in January 2024. The project’s website is mobile-only to allow movement and attention for our surrounding. To visit the website, please use your mobile device and start exploring. Across and Beyond, in Circles and Backward. Articulations to disrupt hegemonic ways of learning. Workshop HEAD Geneva (CH) Nov 2023 From October 31 to November 2, 2023, a group of 15 students from HEAD Geneva critically examined capitalistic, neoliberal, extractivist, and exclusive structures manifested in hegemonic ways of learning, researching, and working together. Aimed at disrupting the status quo and moving towards the practices of exchange and learning they yearn for, Alexandra, Célia, Elisa, Geneva, Grandee, Matylda, Maxime, Jennate, Lora, Loréleï, Lucy, Paul, Simon, Quentin, and Victoire came up with small collaborative exercises. Instead of quick fixes and rigid formats, these propositions are rather meant as articulations to be questioned, rephrased, and further developed. A free pdf with the propositions can be downloaded here. Cover design by Jennate Laamyem. Yours truly, xoxo:a network of relations through letter-writing Workshop Etceteras—feminist festival of design and publishing Casa Comum, Porto (PT) Oct 2023 Writing oneself into the world, blurring boundaries between the self and the other, reaching into the future and the past—the circular, messy creation of collectivity. In this workshop, we’ll tap into the feminist tradition of letter-writing as a way of self-expression through relations. What kind of temporal and spatial webs can it create? What relationships do we conjure up when we address someone? What can a response look like? In a row of small letter-writing exercises, we’ll experiment with its format and embrace its intimacies. Slits in the Monolith—Institutional Critique Reading group With Eleonora Toniolo, Mujgan Abdulzade and Neige Sanchez in collaboration with Air Berlin Alexanderplatz Gelegenheiten e.V. (DE), Jan 29,2023 diffrakt | zentrum für theoretische peripherie (DE), Feb 19, 2023 Hopscotch Reading Room (DE), Feb 26, 2023 In three sessions, the reading group explores the friction between visibility and appropriation by reading and discussing together critical texts about art, cultural and design institutions. The sessions examine how to shift an exploitative act of “looking at” into an intentional practice of “looking with and alongside one another” and ask how to articulate critical thinking within cultural institutions from counter-hegemonic perspectives. Mapping Marzahn Workshop With Paula Erstmann and Yann Colonna Funded through Berlin Mondiale Platz Ohne Name, Berlin-Marzahn (DE) Jan – Feb 2023 What marks do we leave in our surroundings, and what imprints do the surroundings leave in us? By molding and tracing objects from the area onto textile and clay, the space was made tangible with other senses. Transferring its patterns into functional objects, the participants created textiles and plates for a communal dinner at a final event. Mapping Rathausblock Workshop With Paula Erstmann and Yann Colonna Rathausblock Berlin-Kreuzberg (DE) Oct 2022 The Rathausblock in Kreuzberg is currently in a phase of transition. After community-based initiatives campaigned against the sale of the area to investors, the Rathausblock is in the midst of a cooperative urban development process. In this period of change, we ask ourselves: how do we want to remember this area, and how can we witness the transformation? How can we capture the processual? In Mapping Rathausblock, tracing the area’s surfaces and structures, the act of transformation and translation becomes a performative act of remembrance and witnessing. Our Neighborhood, Our Stories Course for 7th-graders at Ferdinand-Freiligrath-Schule Berlin (DE) Aug – Nov 2022 What places are in the neighborhood, and how can they be told about? How do they smell? What do we hear? And which people do we meet? From cyanotype to comics and short stories, the course approached different places and their peculiarities. The Look Of Us: A workshop to encourage self-expression and positioning Workshop With Hanna Müller Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (DE) Organized by the Community Toolkit initiative Apr 2021 How can we express and externalize our opinions and personalities playfully, encoded or directly, loudly or timidly? How can we reflect on ourselves, position ourselves and let others participate in this process? How can we stand up for values, embrace our weaknesses, and allow for dreaming? The Look Of Us is a framework for finding one's voice through the process of designing. Writing &Researching The Promise of Translation With Maya Ober In デザインはみんなのもの (Design is for EVERYBODY) Nov 2024: Troublemakers Publishing Translation is a feminist practice. It is a labor of care, reaching across boundaries to listen, hold, and carry meaning from one place to another. To translate is to assert that no voice is too distant, no story too unfamiliar, no knowledge too obscure to be shared. This text reflects on the feminist politics of carrying stories across affective, geographical, and linguistic borders. An edited version of the text was published on Futuress.org in December 2025. ➞ read here Whose Stories: an audio mapping in search of more diverse city stories With Vera Gärtner and Hanna Müller Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 Using Karlsruhe as an example, “Whose Stories” asks who is remembered in the context of urban (hi)stories—and who is not. In a digital map, a row of audio works makes tangible and discusses who is given visibility and under what circumstances. While critically examining what already exists, the collection aims to retell and broaden prevailing stories and give space to experiences and memories rendered invisible in dominant urban remembrance. As an incomplete compendium, the collection captures empowering moments, gives space to personal memories, and discusses social relations. It is a critical contribution and a joyful extension to archiving, documenting, and collecting practices, as well as a plea for deep listening and respectful curiosity, for asking questions and opening up space. With contributions by: Susanne Asche, Vanessa Bosch, Mélanie Cao, Jaya Demmer, Mascha Dilger, Katrin Dort, Feministisches Kollektiv Karlsruhe e.V. (FKK), Flâneusen, Vera Gärtner, seraina maria kober, Hanna Müller, Annette Niesyto, Hanna Scherwinski, Josefine Scheu, Volker Steck, and Leia Walz. The project was funded through UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Across Distance and Difference With Hanna Müller In First, Then... Repeat. Workshop Scripts in Practice Dec 2022:enen1771536121https://miokojima.com

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