Fabulation as an Approach for Design Futuring

Marie Louise  Juul Søndergaard; Nadia  Campo Woytuk; Noura  Howell; Vasiliki Tsaknaki; Karey Helms; Tom Jenkins; Pedro Sanches

doi:10.1145/3563657.3596097

Fabulation as an Approach for Design Futuring

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Noura Howell, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Karey Helms, Tom Jenkins, Pedro Sanches

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Abstract

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 fluids, we offer 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '23)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	10 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596097
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2023
Event	Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, United States Duration: 10 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2023 Conference number: 2023 https://dis.acm.org/2023/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3563657

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Conference	Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Number	2023
Location	Carnegie Mellon University
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburg
Period	10/07/2023 → 14/07/2023
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2023/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3563657

Keywords

Fabulation
Design Futuring
Critical Feminist Technoscience
Research through Design

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