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WRITER 🎨 DESIGNER✨ COMMUNION🌍 WONDER 💿 PLAY🌈 DREAMING ✨DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱ART DIRECTOR 🎨 DESIGNER✨ POET🌍 EXPLORING 💿 JOY🌈 DREAMING ✨ DIGITAL GARDENS 🌱

I'M ANNIKA

HANSTEEN-IZORA

writer, designer, and creator of School of Softness exploring tenderness through essays, classes, design, and gatherings

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Annika Hansteen-Izora on Black internet culture, queer design, and the commodification of self-care

Annika Hansteen-Izora on joy, communal care, and designing liberatory futures

The Ocean Taught Me to Love My Queer Anger

Annika Hansteen-Izora is creating spaces that centre and celebrate people of color

Hinge Taps Influential LGBTQIA+ Voices to Create a Queer Dating Resource

Annika Hansteen-Izora uses storytelling and design to celebrate the Black community

Annika Hansteen-Izora’s Colorful Living Area Is the Ultimate Friend Zone

The Power of Mapping, Naming, and Connecting Black Creatives

Illustrators, Graphic Designers, & Muralists Creating Revolutionary Work

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I believe softness and play are practices to deepen our attention, care for each other, and inspire the imagination needed to pull softer futures into the present

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS 🌿

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I  write about making a life that feels more alive with wonder, creativity, and communion

Entering my goo era

On the necessity of beauty

What happens when we let ourselves be bad at something

Ode to the errand friend hang

Time is Water

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Talks

Apple
Deem Symposium 

Parsons

Yale

Princeton

MIT

Instrument

Carnegie Mellon University

Leeds Arts University

Apple

Creative Mornings

New Public

Afrotechtopia
The Fashion Institute for Technology

Brooklyn Museum

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GOSSAMER

Annika Hansteen-Izora on Black internet culture, queer design, and the commodification of self-care

THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT

Annika Hansteen-Izora on joy, communal care, and designing liberatory futures

THEM

The Ocean Taught Me to Love My Queer Anger

IT'S NICE THAT

Annika Hansteen-Izora is creating spaces that centre and celebrate people of color

HINGE

Hinge Taps Influential LGBTQIA+ Voices to Create a Queer Dating Resource

COMMUNICATION ARTS

Annika Hansteen-Izora uses storytelling and design to celebrate the Black community

ARCHITECURAL DIGEST

Annika Hansteen-Izora’s Colorful Living Area Is the Ultimate Friend Zone

AIGA EYE ON DESIGN

The Power of Mapping, Naming, and Connecting Black Creatives

BUSTLE

Illustrators, Graphic Designers, & Muralists Creating Revolutionary Work

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Apple
Deem Symposium 

Parsons

Yale

Princeton

MIT

Carnegie Mellon University

Leeds Arts University

Apple

Creative Mornings

New Public

Afrotechtopia
The Fashion Institute for Technology

Brooklyn Museum

Talks

Designing softer worlds

THE PATTERN

THE PATTERN

ETHEL'S CLUB

ETHEL'S CLUB

CREATIVE ECOSYSTEMS

CREATIVE ECOSYSTEMS

LEX

LEX

SOMEWHERE GOOD

SOMEWHERE GOOD

FORM NO FORM

FORM NO FORM

BLACK FEAST

BLACK FEAST

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Explore my classes and gatherings for creativity & softness

School of Softness is my experimental school and studio for classes, gatherings, and practices in tenderness, imagination, and play, online and in Brooklyn

EXPLORE SCHOOL OF SOFTNESS

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