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Yeah, type design is cool, but have you tried to be a feminist?

Can typography be feminist? Who do we design for? How do we speak? What form of representation do we choose? What messages and images do we generate? What discourses do we validate? What is our function, our social role? And the most important: What does it mean to be a feminist designer with gender perspective today?

This lecture is presented as a space for questioning, reflection and an invitation to think about certain aspects of making and using typography from a gender perspective. 

It is not about presenting concrete answers or ways of doing things, but rather a series of questions and postulations that put into crisis and distort the hegemonic discourse of design focused on production, functionality and the rhetoric of neutrality.

What does it mean to design with a gender perspective? What does it mean to be a feminist when tackling a design project? Addressing any area with a gender perspective implies denaturing the contexts and recognizing the bias with which we handle ourselves.

Fer Cozzi
Speaker

Fer Cozzi

Fer Cozzi is an independent type designer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She obtained her diploma at the University of Buenos Aires, and later completed the postgraduate career in Type Design at the same university –where she also works as professor in the Master in typeface design.In her work she seeks to explore rhythms, shapes and lines where chance and a not-so-obvious rationality meet. Talkative and passionate about letters, some of her work has been selected for renowned typography exhibitions and she has participated in various typography conferences and events around the world. She is an expert in nothing, with opinions on everything and successful in all kinds of failures.

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