Every technology contains a piece of science fiction. It imagines future users, social relationships and forms of power. As artists, makers, organisers and technologists, we are already building towards particular futures, even when we have never clearly named them.

In this playful, hands-on workshop, we’ll open up the space between apocalyptic techno-dystopia and corporate techno-utopia by inventing new science-fiction genres.

We’ll begin with something we want to resist, protect, recover or make possible, then build a world from it. What has changed in this world? Who holds power? What is technology for? How do people care, communicate, disagree and make decisions? What does an ordinary day look like, and what contradictions remain unresolved?

We’ll name our genres and create one fragment from within it: a tool, ritual, protocol, law, game, interface, slogan, myth, institution or scene from everyday life.

The goal is to expand the range of worlds we know how to imagine, and maybe invent a new one worth building for.