Worldbuilding
Sarah Drinkwater and
Worldbuilding
Infrastructure might be built by hands but culture is built by tongues. The person who changes the cultural conversation is someone who is able to identify truth and describe it so others can not only understand but participate in the story as a conscious being themselves.
when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
“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
Aja Singer • Our Big Brand Vision? Going welI, I think!
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 moreMarjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
-David Graeber
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.