Fables for Imagining

How might we reimagine the use of fables to encourage digital fluencies?

Fables for Imagining is a storymaking tool and workshop series that uses fable writing to build digital fluencies beyond functional understandings of technology. Drawing on the long history of fables as moral and cautionary stories, the project invites participants to use familiar storytelling forms to explore the values, power structures, and consequences embedded in digital technologies. Through creating their own techno-social fables, participants reflect on how technologies shape everyday life and social roles, while imagining alternative futures. The workshops use fabulation to bring overlooked facts and everyday realities together, helping participants question their current situations and connect personal experiences with wider social and civic concerns.

This project is led by the Imaginative Methods Lab at SFU
Project Illustrations by Doan Truong