Close-up of tall dry grass and leaves in black and white.
Close-up of tall dry grass and leaves in black and white.

Alternative Digital Futures

A textured surface with a rough, gray appearance resembling concrete or stone.
South Asian Scripts

What would it look like to connect online through platforms built around people rather than around their data?

In collaboration Quicksand Design Studio and Superrr Lab
Supported by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi

Participatory Futures
Participatory Futures
Facilitation
Facilitation
Workshop Design
Workshop Design

This series of workshops brought together stakeholders across technology and civil society to speculate on alternative digital futures for social interaction, exploring how digital public spaces might evolve if shaped with intention rather than inherited by default.

The process moved from present-day dynamics into alternative futures, building immersive worlds that surfaced tensions around intimacy, surveillance, trust, and platform responsibility. This extended into backcasting, connecting these futures to present-day strategic choices and directions for how digital platforms might be designed, governed, and experienced differently.

Participants gathered around a speculative prototype during the Alternative Digital Futures workshop by Lagori Collective, Quicksand Design Studio, and Superrr Lab, supported by Goethe-Institut, exploring reimagined digital public spaces.
Plenary session during the Alternative Digital Futures workshop by Lagori Collective, and Superrr Lab, with Alternative Futures Re-imagining Digital Spaces projected on screen.
Close-up of a wire figure on a swing, a speculative prototype made during the Alternative Digital Futures participatory futures workshop by Lagori Collective and partners.
Group of people gathered around a table filled with arts and crafts supplies.
Close-up of a boat's side with water and reeds, showing a person holding an oar.
Group of seven people standing around a table with papers, markers, and glasses in a room with white walls and a bulletin board.
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