Matriarchal Futures Bookstand 2125 featured at Typeforce 13 exhibition
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One Design’s contributions to Matriarchal Design Futures: Bookstand 2125, an initiative curated by Ayako Takase (RISD) and Heather Synder Quinn (DePaul), were showcased at Typeforce 13 in Chicago.
MATRIARCHAL DESIGN FUTURES: BOOKSTAND 2125
The initiative is a collaborative design fiction project that invited artists and designers to imagine and create books from the year 2125. In this speculative future, knowledge and creativity flourish within systems centered on care, nurturing, and collective well being, rather than competition and scarcity.
Contributors were encouraged to “explore bold, even preposterous ideas that challenge current paradigms and light the way toward preferred futures.”
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—
it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Bell Hooks, Outlaw Culture
The One Design team collaborated to create concepts for two series of publications, which were brought to life through a series of covers.
The work was featured alongside the work of over 30 other designers and artists at Typeforce 13, a global curated exhibition displayed at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood from January 31st through February 15th, 2025. Opening night saw well over 1,000 people in attendance.
The Regenerative Almanac
The Regenerative Almanac embodies Matriarchal Design Futures, envisioning a world 100 years from now where knowledge is freed from scarcity, competition, and exclusion.
Designed as a living, bioregional guide, it integrates traditional ecological knowledge, regenerative design, and cooperative governance, ensuring that education, technology, and care work remain interconnected and abundant. More than a book, it functions as a seasonal tracker and communal tool, evolving with the land and its people.
The almanac reflects a world where technology aligns with nature’s cycles. It fosters intergenerational stewardship, elder guidance, and cooperative knowledge-sharing, ensuring continuity and adaptability. Ultimately, it is not just a record of wisdom but a manifestation of a future where design nurtures human and non-human kin alike, sustaining flourishing communities through mutual care.
The Care Collection
The Care Collection brings Matriarchal Design Futures to life in a series of books that reimagine what care will be like 100 years from now.
Created as a free public resource, this series of guidebooks centers on building empathetic communities that support everyone at all stages of life.
After decades of individualistic living and privatized care, The Care Collection provides the knowledge and resources to move back towards a more empathetic, community-centered way of life. The first two books in the series, Caring For: Our Elders and Caring For: Our Teens, prioritize collaboration and shared responsibility to create supportive networks where elders and teens thrive as active members of society.
ABOUT MATRIARCHAL DESIGN FUTURES
A non-capitalistic, non-hierarchical pedagogical framework centering the practices and values of caregiving and nurturing, which holds for all identities: for caregivers, mothers, those who are not mothers, women, men, and nonbinary alike. The initiative was co-created by Heather Synder Quinn and Ayako Takase.
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ABOUT TYPEFORCE
Typeforce is a semi-annual show of local, global, one-of-a-kind typographic creations. Community-centered. Chicago Born. 2025 was the 13th installment of the show, on view at co-prosperity sphere in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood from January 31 through February 15, 2025
