FIXTIONS. Collaborative fictions to intervene from speculation in emerging realities

The practice of design increasingly goes beyond creating specific (tangible or intangible) objects, to focus on projects related to the design of services, organisations, systems, platforms or experiences. In this context, design becomes the mediator of a sociotechnical network whose actors -human and non human- try to stabilise to achieve a functional artefact.

On the other hand, the acceleration of technological, cultural, political and environmental change presents a challenge for managing the uncertainty that has been approached, for example, from Design Fiction or speculative design. These two approaches focus on object design to imagine the universe that has given rise to it.

Based on the actor -network theory and post- anthropocentric design, Fixtions proposes and experimental methodological framework for transmedia collaborative fiction. Focusing more on the narrative than on the product design of speculative prototypes and their assemblages. The process is carried out using different expression languages, resulting in a transmedia narrative produced collectively.