The workshop is designed as an interactive and collaborative halfday event combining rapid research exchange, collective reflection, and speculative co-design activities
15 mins
The organizers introduce themselves, the workshop goals, and the day’s agenda
45 mins
Participants each give a short (approximately 60-second) presentation introducing their position paper and research interests. The aim is to quickly surface diverse perspectives and research frictions across disciplines and contexts
15 mins
During the Introduction Madness, organizers document and cluster recurring themes and tensions on a shared challenge-mapping board, which participants then use to form small groups for group activities.
Coffee Break 30 mins
60 mins
Using simple craft materials, groups create speculative and provocative artifacts, interfaces, scenarios, services, or storyboards that are “worst-case” or “evil” technology concepts for early parenthood. These “provotypes” are meant to intentionally exaggerate problematic assumptions, unequal power relations, unintended consequences or breakdowns in collaborative care.
45 mins
Each group presents their provotype in a short 3-min pitch, followed by a plenary discussion reflecting on implications for designing collaborative technologies in early parenthood. Organizers connect those to feminist HCI, ecological perspectives, and coproduction of care to identify future research and design opportunities.
Organizers summarize key insights and outcomes, and discuss opportunities for future collaboration and community-building activities beyond the workshop.