concept: a universe for urself
Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.” Ruha Benjamin, Professor, Princeton University
build a world, not an audience — kening zhu
keningzhu.comArtists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others. Of course, world-building means creating everything—not only making things inside the world but also the surrounding world itself—the language, style, rules, and architecture.
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
“Of course it’s happening inside your head, Harry, but why should that mean it’s not real?”
r/harrypotter - Reddit

The most ambitious art is the art of worlding
Learning about it helped me solve a puzzle:
On the inside, I feel like an introverted artist. But on the outside, I'm constantly creating social containers: residencies, classes, writing groups, etc.
The realization hit the... See more
For those of us struggling and aching to say something different, to be distinctly our own, to reject the stifling rationality of the world around us in favor of the symbolic, the creative, and the divine, creating a world is our path.
Yancey Strickler • Worldbuilding is creative resilience
Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans
André Chaperonandrechaperon.comWorldbuilding, for me, was a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive.