Designing Postdigital Futures—The Case of Hackathons

Used in the context of innovation-driven economies and civil society, hackathons are a good example of collaborative postdigital design processes and their focus on futures and the realization of new ideas. Hackathons are a widespread organizational form of designing the future in which digital solu...

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Published in:Postdigital science and education Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 52 - 71
Main Authors: Krämer, Hannes, Trischler, Ronja
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.03.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Civil society
Collaboration
Design
Education
Educational Philosophy
Educational Technology
Entrepreneurs
Feminism
Innovation
Makerspaces
Original Articles
Participation
Technology and Digital Education
Visual Aids
Germany
Discourse
Problematization
Practice theory
Temporary organization
Creative work
Future
Scaling
Qualitative online research
Sociology of the future
Digital work
ISSN:2524-485X, 2524-4868
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Summary:Used in the context of innovation-driven economies and civil society, hackathons are a good example of collaborative postdigital design processes and their focus on futures and the realization of new ideas. Hackathons are a widespread organizational form of designing the future in which digital solutions (such as apps, websites) are preferred. What becomes questionable in the process of designing, however, is the social form of the future. In our case study, we ask which futures are being designed and by whom . While empirically, these questions are often answered together, we disentangle them in our analysis of online announcements of hackathons. We show how a feasible, designable, and achievable future is imagined through practices of problematization and scaling. We demonstrate corresponding models of subjects that are preferred for designing the future. With our praxeological analysis, we aim to contribute to an understanding of the micropowers of designing postdigital futures. While in principle, ‘everyone’ is invited to participate in the design process at hackathons, the announcements already show that only certain participants are desired, and only certain kinds of futures are imaginable through hackathons.
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ISSN:2524-485X
2524-4868
DOI:10.1007/s42438-023-00412-w