This hands-on workshop invites participants to critically and creatively engage with digital archives through the lens of Critical Fabulation. We will begin with a brief introduction to key ideas around the ontology of archives and how the internet has reshaped the ways we store, access, and circulate historical knowledge. Participants will be introduced to examples of contemporary artists who “activate the archive” in their practices, using speculative and imaginative strategies to challenge archival authority and uncover hidden or silenced narratives. The archive is often seen as static, neutral, or inaccessible, yet scholars such as Derrida remind us of its fragmentary, incomplete, and inherently political nature. In parallel, the concept of fabulation—developed across feminist, postcolonial, and Afrofuturist thought—foregrounds the imaginative capacities required to attend to the “irrecoverable” and “unrepresentable.” Thinkers such as Saidiya Hartman (critical fabulation) and Donna Haraway (speculative fabulation) have expanded its scope as a strategy to re-narrate history and imagine new futures. This workshop builds on these conversations by asking: how might we use Critical fabulation to create new possibilities within the digital archive? Participants will learn basic HTML tools and the “Inspect Element” feature in web browsers to locally edit and intervene in online archives. They will be encouraged to select a digital archive of personal or research interest and to speculate on alternative narratives for its materials. Each participant will record their live interventions and share the outcomes in small groups. Together, we will reflect on the methods, ethics, and potentials of activating digital archives through fabulation. The workshop combines a short lecture, group discussion, and individual creative experimentation. By the end, participants will leave with both conceptual frameworks and practical tools for reimagining archives as sites of invention, resistance, and storytelling.