Mio Kojima (she/her) is a German-Japanese designer, editor, researcher, and educator focused on collaborative, intersectional feminist, and decolonial approaches to creating and sharing knowledge. From teaching to publishing and curating, she understands her work as a space-making practice that centers criticality, community, and exchange.

Along with Maya Ober, Mio is co-director of the intersectional feminist platform for design politics Futuress. As a hybrid between a learning community and a publishing platform, Futuress aims to problematize the role of design in systems of oppression and discrimination and explores design’s potential for social change. With a mission to radically democratize design education and amplify marginalized voices, Maya and Mio curate public learning programs, facilitate fellowships, and accompany the Futuress authors in developing their texts.

Next to Futuress, Mio teaches in schools and universities in different formats, addressing sociopolitical issues within educational spaces and design’s potential as a practice of dreaming and empowerment.

In 2024, Mio joined forces with Lisa Baumgarten to give lectures and workshops for design teachers and students on discrimination-sensitive teaching and learning in design.

From 2014-2022, Mio studied communication design and exhibition design/scenography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany and Strategic Design at the Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.