Participatory futures
and speculative worldbuilding
Design Futures
Participatory foresight
Speulative Worldbuilding
September 2026
The workshop based in experiential participatory futures created a space for participants from different disciplines ( science, public policy, urban design, design and research ) to collectively ask - What would be future ways of practicing/ performing collective practices? What objects or paraphernalia would these use?
Drawing from today’s signals like political climate, technological shifts and social alignments, participants co-created hands on prototypes of artefacts belonging to these future practices. As they built these tangible objects, it created a space to practice collective intelligence and shift societal norms.
The workshop based in experiential participatory futures created a space for participants from different disciplines ( science, public policy, urban design, design and research ) to collectively ask - What would be future ways of practicing/ performing collective practices? What objects or paraphernalia would these use?
Drawing from today’s signals like political climate, technological shifts and social alignments, participants co-created hands on prototypes of artefacts belonging to these future practices. As they built these tangible objects, it created a space to practice collective intelligence and shift societal norms.
