Artifacts from a Matriarchal Future

In this workshop, participants will create a physical artifact from a world where matriarchy is the norm. Speculative design gives us a way in. It makes the unimaginable tangible. Maybe it's currency from a care economy, a report card from a school that values different intelligences, or product packaging from a company accountable to seven generations ahead. Whatever form it takes, the artifact will exist in a world organized around care, relationship, and collective power.
Tracee Worley, founder of Radical Futures, will share the methodology she used to create Seneca Falls 2048, a speculative project featuring artifacts from the 200th anniversary of the first women's rights convention. Then participants will make their own artifacts from a matriarchal future.
What you'll do:
Learn how speculative design makes futures tangible
Work with matriarchal wisdom as a creative framework
Create a physical artifact from a matriarchal future
Share your work with the group
Leave with ideas for bringing this method to your community
What to bring:
Willingness to imagine radically
A phone, tablet, or laptop to play the card game
Craft materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own
Who this is for:
Organizers, activists, artists, strategists, educators, and anyone exhausted by patriarchy who wants to build something else.
About the facilitator:
Tracee Worley is the founder of Radical Futures, a speculative design studio working at the intersection of collapse and imagination. Her work helps organizations sense into what this moment is asking of us. She believes matriarchy is a way to face the volatility of our times by grounding ourselves in care, relationship, and collective power.