Purpose

This paper critically examines the development and direction of the Fabricating Future Bodies (FFB) Workshop. Troubling notions of co-production as enacting equality or empowering participants, it draws on feminist posthuman and new materialist concepts to understand it as an eventful process that occurs in unpredictable and shifting affect-laden assemblages.

Design/methodology/approach

The FFB Workshop formed part of the final phase of my Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded doctoral study, titled “Exploring young people's digital sexual cultures through creative, visual and arts-based methods”. With additional support from Wales' Doctoral Training Partnership, the workshop provided sixteen young people (aged 11–13 years) from one fieldwork school with the opportunity to work with two professional artists in order to creatively re-animate research findings on the digitally networked body. In a three-hour workshop, participants produced cut-up texts and life-size body fabrics that re-imagined what bodies might do, be and become in the future.

Findings

This paper finds that co-productive practices cannot flatten out the institutional and societal power dynamics operating within schools, highlighting how adult intervention was necessary to hold space for young people to participate. It also observes the agency of the art materials employed in the workshop in enabling young people to articulate what mattered to them about the digitally networked body. While the workshop was limited in its ability to renegotiate institutional and peer power dynamics, it produced rich data that indicated how carefully choreographed arts-based practices offer generative possibilities for digital sexualities research and education.

Originality/value

By employing speculative fiction, cut-up poetry and textiles to explore the digitally networked body, this paper outlines an innovative methodological-pedagogical approach to engaging with young people's digitally networked lives.

中文翻译：

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制造未来的身体：使数字性研究变得重要

目的

本文批判性地审视了制造未来身体 (FFB) 研讨会的发展和方向。令人不安的共同生产概念是制定平等或赋予参与者权力，它利用女权主义后人类和新唯物主义概念将其理解为发生在不可预测和不断变化的充满情感的组合中的一个多事的过程。

设计/方法/方法

FFB 研讨会是我的经济和社会研究委员会 (ESRC) 资助的博士研究最后阶段的一部分，题为“通过创造性、视觉和基于艺术的方法探索年轻人的数字性文化”。在威尔士博士培训伙伴关系的额外支持下，研讨会为来自一所实地考察学校的 16 名年轻人（11-13 岁）提供了与两名专业艺术家合作的机会，以便创造性地重新激活数字网络机构的研究成果. 在一个三小时的研讨会上，参与者制作了剪切文本和真人大小的身体面料，重新想象了身体在未来可能会做什么、成为什么样的人以及成为什么样的人。

发现

本文发现，共同生产实践并不能平息学校内部运作的制度和社会权力动态，强调成人干预对于为年轻人留出参与空间是必要的。它还观察了研讨会中使用的艺术材料的代理，使年轻人能够阐明对他们来说对数字网络身体很重要的事情。虽然研讨会在重新协商机构和同侪权力动态方面的能力有限，但它产生了丰富的数据，表明精心编排的基于艺术的实践如何为数字性研究和教育提供生成可能性。

原创性/价值

通过运用投机小说、剪裁诗歌和纺织品来探索数字网络身体，本文概述了一种创新的方法论教学方法来参与年轻人的数字网络生活。