We draw on data from a series of design fiction workshops with older adults, civil society organisations and civil servants in Germany, Austria and the UK.

Central is the question of whether and how we can actually think (and imagine) outside of powerful anticipation regimes around the increasing spread and relevance of data-driven systems and/or ageist assumptions about how to ‘fix’ the problem of demographic ageing.

With the paper we join others in their call to resist and challenge regimes of anticipations that suggest our futures are inevitably linked to certain imaginaries about data-driven systems. We explore how we might open up futures-making to different people in relation to futures of ageing.

🤓 New Publication: *Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring* in *Big Data & Society* by myself and @helenmanchester.bsky.social

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