Essays

A farmers’ market on a busy weekend feels more lively to us than a virtual meeting hosted in Meta’s Horizon Workrooms

The most interesting worlds are evolved, not engineered. What if we think of liveliness as being about creating space for abundant novelty and surprise? A world is most alive when it has enough open-endedness for unexpected behavior to emerge in a bottom-up, democratic manner. A lively world can be a complex system, composed of many elements that... See more