Future Present: Gifting Workshop

Join us to explore what gifts could be like in the future.

Hybrid gifts combine physical products with digital media to create novel and enhanced gifting experiences. While some examples of hybrid gifts already exist, such as digital photo frames and musical greeting cards, there is an untapped potential for creating personalised and valuable gifts by enabling people to share their own stories and professional content through physical artefacts.

In this workshop we will begin by discussing current gifting practices and then move on to consider scenarios for the exchange of existing and new forms of hybrid gifts.