Designing Postdigital Futures—The Case of Hackathons

Abstract Used in the context of innovation-driven economies and civil society, hackathons are a good example collaborative postdigital design processes their focus on futures realization new ideas. Hackathons widespread organizational form designing future which digital solutions (such as apps, websites) preferred. What becomes questionable process designing, however, is social future. In our case study, we ask being designed by whom . While empirically, these questions often answered together, disentangle them analysis online announcements hackathons. We show how feasible, designable, achievable imagined through practices problematization scaling. demonstrate corresponding models subjects that preferred for With praxeological analysis, aim to contribute an understanding micropowers futures. principle, ‘everyone’ invited participate at hackathons, already only certain participants desired, kinds imaginable