Speculative Design Explorations for Sámi Digital Storytelling Futures

Grounded in Sámi and other Indigenous epistemologies that value reciprocity and relational ethics, this poster explores speculative design as an ethical and community-oriented approach to envisioning Sámi digital storytelling futures. Using speculative design as a method of reflection rather than prediction, it presents three speculative design explorations that imagine how technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be shaped through Sámi values of care, reciprocity, and linguistic sovereignty. These concepts are not cultural representations but provocations for dialogue on how Indigenous knowledge systems and digital design might co-evolve. By centring Indigenous agency, data sovereignty, and storytelling protocols, this study contributes to emerging discussions in Indigenous Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and Indigenous futurisms, highlighting how technology can act as a relational partner in sustaining living relations with story, place, and language.