Issues
Every issue of the magazine, with its editorial and the articles in it.
November
2026
What Is Demanded of Us
The word resilience comes from the Latin resilire: to leap back. A resilient steel takes a blow, deforms, and recovers its shape. Applied to people and cities, the metaphor carries an uncomfortable assumption: that someone is going to keep on hitting.
Elsie Ralston
4 articles →
September
2026
Old Myths, New Threats
In “The Odyssey,” Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Odysseus returns to Ithaca, haunted by guilt and fear. Thanks to his ingenuity—hiding himself and his army inside a giant wooden horse—Troy was destroyed. Back in his hometown, he speaks with his wife, Penelope, covered…
Javier Wong Q
4 articles →
August
2026
Education Based on Linguistic Justice: Beyond Multiculturalism
The accelerated loss of linguistic diversity worldwide is undeniable (UNESCO, 2010). With the disappearance of each language, the wealth of cultural and ecological knowledge that they encode and transmit is lost. The celebration of multiculturalism and diversity…
Elizabeth Rosales
4 articles →
July
2026
Amazo & Afrofuturism for Other Possible Worlds, Ours
We live in a time when imagining the future has become an increasingly difficult task. Amid the many crises we are facing and the rapid pace at which they unfold, pessimism risks becoming a form of stagnation.
Sandra Arellano
4 articles →
April
2026
Who decides how technology enters our territories?
The global conversation about technology and artificial intelligence takes place in English and raises questions that do not necessarily include the "Sures" of the world.
Elsie Ralston
6 articles →
March
2026
Designing Futures, Algorithms, and Creative Disobedience
In this issue, we explore how alternative futures are constructed. We have redesigned SurGlobal’s identity as a system capable of accommodating multiple territories and voices. We reflect on how cinema challenges power structures and sparks political imagination through…
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
February
2026
What kind of technological futures are we creating?
This month at UNTOLD.ink, we’ve brought together four essays that explore the same question from different angles: What kind of technological future are we building—and for whom?
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
January
2026
Tecnología, poder y futuros para iniciar el 2026
En este primer boletín del año, te traemos cuatro miradas que nos invitan a pensar el presente y el futuro desde territorios, cuerpos y prácticas que desafían las narrativas dominantes.
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
December
2025
Four Reads to Wrap Up 2025
We close out the year by exploring four texts that deconstruct the idea of progress and propose futures rooted in the ancestral, the situated, the underground, and the visual. It is an invitation to look back, to challenge the status quo, and to explore other possible worlds through the freedom to imagine—and…
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
November
2025
Your dose of innovation from the South
This month, we arrived with hearts full and minds sharp. Sesiones Sur Global 2025 reminded us that futures are not imagined in silence or from a distance: they are built in community, through difficult questions and with a kind of hope that does not deny reality, but rather…
Elsie Ralston
4 articles →
October
2025
Community well-being, research, AI
October invites us to rethink the ethics of creation and care. This issue brings together voices that challenge certainties, highlight the dangers of individualistic superficiality, and sow the seeds for new ways of imagining the future.
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
September
2025
Decolonize your mind, and your community will follow
September reminds us that design can also be seen as an act of defiance.
Elsie Ralston
4 articles →
August
2025
Rights, Responsibilities, and the Future of LATAM
August calls on us to listen to tensions that remain unresolved. From AI that will determine who governs tomorrow to dilemmas born of uncertainty, this issue brings together four essays that explore how we inhabit and transform fragile systems. It’s not just about…
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
July
2025
Beyond Inclusion
July forces us to read between the lines of systems. From Latin America to global industry, reality reminds us that innovation doesn’t always stem from flawless plans, but rather from detours, instinct, and classrooms that refuse to follow someone else’s script. This issue weaves together…
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
June
2025
Decolonizing the Future
Join us on the margins, where uncomfortable yet necessary questions arise: Who defines the future? Which bodies and forms of knowledge are left out? How do we navigate complexity?
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
May
2025
Design Frameworks for the Multiverse
In the May issue of UNTOLD, we examine the myth of progress and its influence on our perception of change and development; we present indigenous design frameworks that challenge colonial notions of the future; we delve into the strategic construction of futures…
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
April
2025
Imagining from the South, Creating Without Permission
This month, we continue to explore the margins to imagine possible futures from our own territories, languages, and intuitions.
Elsie Ralston
5 articles →
March
2025
Envisioning the Future from the Global South: Narratives in Motion
This month’s stories explore how innovation, memory, and resilience are shaping the present. From technologies with social impact to narratives that challenge the status quo, at UNTOLD we remain committed to amplifying voices that broaden the conversation.
Elsie Ralston
3 articles →