Design Beyond Design Thinking: Designing Postdigital Futures when Weaving Worlds with Others

Postdigital Imaginations as Emancipatory Practices

“…Lately, postdigital scholars have given a lot of attention to postdigital futures (Ross 2023;Lindberg and Johansson 2023). Dedicated collections include the recent Special Issue on 'Designing Postdigital Futures' (Macgilchrist et al 2024) and the forthcoming book Framing Futures in Postdigital Education: Critical Concepts for Data-driven Practices (Buch et al 2024). Starting from postdigital dialogue (Jandrić et al 2019) and Graeber's militant research (Shukaitis and Graeber 2007), Postdigital Science and Education journal has published a collection of fictional stories that 'abandon the chains of academic formality' and 'complement scholarly research by presenting the fruit of unrestricted imagination about the many possibilities for the future of education' (Hrastinski and Jandrić 2023: 509).…”

The Future Postdigital Classroom

“…In a Special Issue titled 'Designing Postdigital Futures', Macgilchrist et al (2024) explore the gap between the production of future imaginaries through technology, policy, and educational formats and everyday experiences of these interventions. The articles in the collection point towards a contradiction between an understanding of education as 'intentionally designed' and at the same time 'indeterminate'.…”

“…This is visible across education including curricula (Aitken and Jones 2023), pedagogies (Fawns 2023), everyday learning and teaching (Carvalho and Yeoman 2023), and the organization of learning spaces (Carvalho and Lamb 2023;Lamb 2023). Structuring future social relations and educational possibilities, technologies are invariably future oriented (Macgilchrist et al 2024). Educational technologies (EdTech) have become important signifiers in the production of future visions, where school technologization is put forth as a precondition for educational progression (Selwyn and Facer 2013).…”