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!
The number of people who show up will be exactly the right number of people (:
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:The design briefs created at the workshop will be used to create XR speculative objects from the not-too-distant-feminist future, which will be accessible from several spaces - including a room in Mozhub and transfeministech.org. The objects will be accompanied by short fictions and soundscapes seeded through the design briefs, and invite further engagement through exploration, questions or more narratives. Available by mid-April.
The methodology of the workshop and post-workshop engagement is designed collaboratively by Jac, Michaela, Jo and An Binh, and adapts the awesome transfeminist.org Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies as a key component. Writers include Jessica Horn, African feminist activist, poet, Rebecca Saab Saade, comic writer, and queer writer Sheena Magenya. The session is organised as part of Numun.Fund's engagement with Mozfest, in partnership and collaboration.
