(Re)figuring feminist futures: Alternative Economies

How can we decolonise our relationship with technology? Can we interrogate our past to rebuild a future where technology is shaped by an abundance of imagination rather than the wants of a few? What if technology infrastructure is less about the tool, and more about relationships? This is a play session that invites collective imagination on alternative resource flow and economic exchange. Using visualisation and world building methodologies, we invite you to create design blueprints for artefacts of possible feminist futures. The blueprints will be used to create XR narrative objects after the workshop, to invite broader interaction and engagement. Please bring colour pencils, paper, play dough etc to the session. The session is woven by feminist tech activist Jac sm Kee, in collaboration with Saigonese VR and AR conceptual artist Jo Ngô Kỳ Duyên; Bani Haikal, sound & text artist; An Binh, communications activist; Joanna Varon, Creative Chaos Catalyst; and Michaela Ternasky-Holland, methodology consultant - by Numun.Fund - the first dedicated funding for feminist tech in the Larger World!