Worldbuilding
Sarah Drinkwater and
Worldbuilding
Paradoxically, the most reliable method to envision and plan for futures, isn’t just studying and extrapolating scientific facts, historical developments, psychology and demography, but by building stories beyond our wildest imagination.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
What we need are visions of the future of technology that are values-driven, but we don’t need just design fictions. We need business model fictions, engineering feasibility study fictions, interop protocol specification fictions, investment return fictions.
Matt Webb • Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab, V0.1
projects like Invisible Seattle and Loot prove that inventive and imaginative results can emerge from collaboration, producing works that defy easy categorization and commercialization.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
Metalabel is a good example of a company building a “world”
“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.”
-Brian Eno.
If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
science-fiction prototypes are imagined laboratories based on (scientific) fact, that challenge creators ánd readers to critically reflect on the impact of science and emerging technologies and on the social and emotional responses of the world - including themselves. It offers a great tool to envision possible and hopeful futures, and could be an
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