Worldbuilding
by Sarah Drinkwater and · updated 4d ago
Worldbuilding
- instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists — first and primarily — for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks — in order to validate its existence.
build a world that the RIGHT people — your kindred people — will discover, will gravitate towards, and fall in love... See moreandrea added 6mo ago
- “We create products and experiences—I look at our Instagram as a product. It is a form of taking a Recess just like drinking a can is. It’s just as important...Our strategy long-term is to develop a whole platform of products. There are many versions of Recess we can create for specific use cases in the day where you’re looking to reset or rebalanc... See more
from Our Big Brand Vision? Going welI, I think! by Aja Singer
sari added 6mo ago
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.
from Designing the Future Using Science Fiction by Marjolein Pijnappels
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
- What role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons pioneered was using the same gameplay mechanics not to fight tabletop wars but to tell stories, centered not on armies but on individual characters of a player’s own creation. The point of playing was not to beat your opponent but to share in the thrill of making up worlds and pretending to act in... See more
from Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis by Jon Askonas
Stuart Evans added 10mo ago
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
... See morefrom Designing the Future Using Science Fiction by Marjolein Pijnappels
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
thoughts on the creative tensions of Disneyland: between art and commerce, the child vs. the adult, what you can see vs. what’s hidden, and surrendering vs. control.
from Imagineering by Austin Kleon
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.
from Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’ by Rebecca Johnson
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
- It doesn’t have to be the way it is is a playful statement, made in the context of fiction, with no claim to “being real.” Yet it is a subversive statement.
Subversion doesn’t suit people who, feeling their adjustment to life has been successful, want things to go on just as they are, or people who need support from authority assuring them that thin... See morefrom Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is
Tara McMullin added 10mo ago
projects like Invisible Seattle and Loot prove that inventive and imaginative results can emerge from collaboration, producing works that defy easy categorization and commercialization.
from Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2 by Dirt
Keely Adler added 1mo ago