COLLABORATIVE WORLDMAKING

Collaborative worldmaking is a transdisciplinary educational practice ground that brings together students, teachers and external partners to imagine alternative worlds and explore new ways of living in times of ecological devastation. During collaborative worldmaking, students from a range of disciplines collectively imagine and explore an alternative reality, guided by examples from alternative futurisms. In small groups, students are instructed to visit their newly imagined world and, inspired by small exercises in collaboration with experts (such as an architect, fashion scholar, dancer), develop the intricacies of their world. The created sketches, concepts, objects and stories bring to life narratives that offer new perspectives on current societal issues through a process of defamiliarization.

“Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. I suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our right and responsibility to create a new world. What we pay attention to grows, so I’m thinking about how we grow what we are all imagining and creating into something large enough and solid enough that it becomes a tipping point.”

adrienne maree brown (2017), Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Useful sources (from a previous edition of the Collaborative Worldmaking approach)

EUC ARTS & CULTURE PROGAMME

Session #1: Architecture