Fabulation as an Approach for Design FuturingShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, DIS 2023, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2023, p. 1693-1709Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Envisioning alternative futures and desirable worlds is a core element of design that must be cultivated, especially when a deep transition of practices, values, and power is necessary for vibrant and just future lifeworlds. In this paper, we contribute towards fabulation as an approach for design futuring that foregrounds feminist commitments and more-than-human concerns. Analyzing two fabulation case studies around biodata and bodily fuids, we ofer three themes based on our process of developing these fabulations: how they engage materials, how they work to trouble temporalities, and how they cultivate imagination. We argue for the emerging potential of fabulation as an approach for open-ended, joyful design futuring, mobilizing speculative storytelling to foreground absent or neglected relations when imagining alternative lifeworlds.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2023. p. 1693-1709
Keywords [en]
Fabulation, Design Futuring, Critical Feminist Technoscience, Research through Design
National Category
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-341554DOI: 10.1145/3563657.3596097ISI: 001090855700112OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-341554DiVA, id: diva2:1822325
Conference
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) on Rebuilding and Resilience, JUL 10-14, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA
Note
Part of ISBN 978-1-4503-9893-0
QC 20231222
2023-12-222023-12-222025-02-24Bibliographically approved