Knowledge dissemination should not be treated as an afterthought to research and design efforts, particularly those that aim to center the experiences and expertise of minoritized communities. This pictorial visualizes the dissemination of an intergenerational participatory speculative design project focused on imagining community sociotechnical futures beyond anti-Black surveillance, where senior and youth community members collectively articulated their visions through designing a series of children's picture books. We document the processes, outcomes, and reflections involved in preparing and organizing a community-based children's book reading event as a form of knowledge dissemination. By foregrounding knowledge dissemination as a creative and communal site of gathering, dialogue, and the cultivation and celebration of joy, we invite HCI researchers and designers to consider how the dissemination of research and design outcomes can foster meaningful sociomaterial infrastructures within and beyond engaged communities.

This paper reconsiders knowledge sharing as a relational process of disorientation and reorientation, which is a way of turning toward others, the world, and possible futures. Drawing on an intergenerational participatory speculative design project in a historically Black neighborhood, we show how seniors and youth shared knowledge of turning toward the affective, more-than-human relations, as well as toward one another and collective futures. These practices reoriented participants across differences toward one another and their community, cultivating new cross-generational relationships and shared imagination. Building on Sara Ahmed’s notion of orientation and Black feminist thought, we argue that knowledge sharing is less about efficiency or productivity and more about relational alignment—negotiating how communities come together and move together toward otherwise futures. For HCI, this critical reframing foregrounds the racialized histories and everyday labors that sustain collective orientations, urging scholars and designers to consider how communities can collectively (re)orient themselves epistemically and ontologically through design, and what otherwise worlds those reorientations make possible.