Workshop
14:00 – 16:00, 8 May
C4.03

Inventing Speculative Literacies for Eco-Social Design

Presented by
Andreas Unteidig, Karin Fink

If we want to reclaim and remain hopeful about the future, we need tools and practices that help us recognize potential within crises and actively shape our own contexts. This workshop invites participants into a collective speculative exercise to envision future literacies that empower us as hopeful designers in the face of current and coming disasters.
But what kind of future awaits us? Governmental strategies, thought leaders, publishers, influencers, academic research, literature, pop culture, and grassroots movements all shape diNerent visions of tomorrow. In this workshop, we will select some of these narratives as
“imperatives” — starting points for ideating and prototyping literacies (and ways of learning/cultivating them) that equip us for what lies ahead.