Worldbuilding
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Worldbuilding
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... See more
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... See more
Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is
*What's behind Metalabel?*
Metalabel was inspired by specific theories about what the future-now holds: from post-individualism to world-building as self-care to the decline of the creator economy as we know it
Here are six core beliefs behind @metalabel_xyz 🧵
nametwitter.comWorldbuilding, for me, was a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive.
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
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
To me, BRAT has been the ultimate demonstration of cultural world-building, Energy marketing, designing a product and a campaign with its most extreme consumer and fan in mind, and the most acute demonstration of how irl Authenticator moments drive url interaction and amplification.
Grace Gordon • How to Build Brand Energy
I have found that creating fictional worlds is a way of using your imagination for hope of what could be, even in the real-world.