FestForward: Participatory Design Futuring and World-Building for Equitable Digital Futures in Performing Arts Festivals

Elsden, Chris; Jones, Vikki; Helgason, Ingi; Abernethy, Lizzie; Brown, Will

Abstract

FestForward is a fictional, local, cultural magazine, set in 2030, designed to stimulate conversations about equitable and sustainable digital futures in performing arts festivals. This extensive design fiction was developed through a series of participatory workshops, where creative and cultural practitioners responded to various ‘provotypes’ suggesting narrative content for the magazine. In this pictorial, we annotate and unpack the making of FestForward to reflect upon various formats and approaches to design futuring, and to offer a platform for further world-building, research and discussion on equitable digital futures in arts festivals.

Citation

Elsden, C., Jones, V., Helgason, I., Abernethy, L., & Brown, W. (2023, July). FestForward: Participatory Design Futuring and World-Building for Equitable Digital Futures in Performing Arts Festivals. Presented at DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference
• Start Date: Jul 10, 2023
• End Date: Jul 14, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Apr 28, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jul 10, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-07
• Deposit Date: Jul 12, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 13, 2023
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 1424–1437
• Book Title: DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
• ISBN: 9781450398930
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596033
• Keywords: Design fiction, Speculative Design, Futuring, Festivals