Visions for Fastaval 2027
Fastaval is a community built on both tradition and innovation, where dedicated volunteers and participants come together around our passion for games, experiences and collaboration. We are constantly working to strengthen bonds across generations, areas and interests.
In order to create a Fastaval where everyone feels welcome and valued, we have set a clear direction for our history, community and future development.
Below you can read our vision, which will help us preserve the best of the past, enhance the experience in the present, and ensure that Fastaval remains a place for everyone in the future.
A stronger digital foundation
Fastavals new IT-System, “Fastasys”, supports a big part of the work before, during and after the convention. Information only needs to be wrote one place, so that among other the website and app can gather everything from the same source.
The system should also support registration, budgeting, evaluation and other tasks, so that we reduce manual work and create better work-conditions for the voulenteers. At the same time the new system will help archive the website and make sure no knowledge is lost between Fastavals. The new system gives us more freedom and ownership over fx workdocuments and lets us move away from external programs and suppliers.
Knowledge that lives on
Fastavals areas develops each year, but it’s important that knowledge doesn’t get lost, when vulenteers change roles or leaves. We want to strengthen the handover betten old and new, so experience, responsibility and practiacal knowhow is given on and easier to find.
At the same time it needs to be clearer what each area does, which tasks they are responsible for and how you can become a part of them. That should make it easier for new vulenteers to easily enter into the work and built on what others already has created.
A clear way to volunteering
It should be easier to figure out how to become a volunteer at Fastaval, even if you don’t already know anyone. We want to make it clearer what tasks are available, what they entail, who to contact, and what you are committing to.
Clearer descriptions and more visible opportunities should help more people find a role that aligns with their interests, experience, and available energy, and shorten the path from interested participant to a fantastic volunteer.
A more inviting attendee culture
It should be easier to meet new people at Fastaval and feel welcome in communities you are not already part of. We aim to foster a culture where participants are attentive to one another and actively invite others to join in, for example, by leaving an empty chair at the table, reaching out to someone standing alone, or striking up a conversation with someone they don’t already know.
Through co-creative activities, we aim to provide opportunities to experience Fastaval with strangers, and we will take small initiatives to make it easier to both take the first step, and invite others in, so that more can find new relations and spaces to be.
Fastval as a part of Hobro
Hobro is Fastavals home and that should be felt. Vi wish to strengthen our cooperation with Hobro Handel and other local firms and orginsations, and prioratise locak suppliers and built relations that can last over multiple years. The goal is that Fastaval is not just a thing that happens in Hobro but is a event with a clear connection to the city and it’s industry.
A more accessible Fastaval
We would like to claim that Fastaval is for everyone, but that requires we actively look for any barriers that limits that. We want to work more directly with accessibility for participants and vulenteers with both visible and invisble handicap.
In 2027 were creating a indepentened volunteer area, whoose job it is to map any challenges and create concrete improvements. This is only the start of a more persistent and systemic effort from Fastaval.
