WIDERWORTE

WIDERWORTE is a feminist glossary that explores the intersections of work, care, and structural inequality for women*. The 220-page publication combines typographic design, critical research, and reflection making visible what is often left unsaid.

Created by designer Lisa Nikelowski as part of her Bachelor thesis in Integrated Design at the Köln International School of Design, the glossary addresses the invisible struggles of navigating between graduation and employment, care work and career ambitions, systemic pressure and personal resistance.

WIDERWORTE aims to provoke a rethinking towards that manner and a support to find your introspective position. It collects terms, thoughts, quotes, and gaps. It gives language to lived experience, while resisting simplification. Though currently unpublished, this publication is seeking a publishing partner aligned with its feminist and design-political ethos. In the meantime, a crowdfunding campaign supports the vision of high-quality self-publishing: thread-bound, Swiss brochure, uncoated paper—locally and independently produced.

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