{"id":847,"date":"2022-09-01T19:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=847"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:33:37","slug":"investing-in-futures-a-worldbuilding-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/investing-in-futures-a-worldbuilding-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Futures: a Worldbuilding Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/investingInFutures.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/investingInFutures.png 680w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/investingInFutures-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Rothberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investing in Futures is a two day speculative worlding workshop in which you and your classmates will co-imagine worlds (some absurd, impossible, likely, or improbable) and inhabit them through conversation, craft, and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Day 1: You\u2019ll use a constraint based design process to co-imagine a world you want to live in. You\u2019ll be introduced to concepts of world-building, speculative design, and systems thinking to develop this world. Depending on class\u2019 interest, there may also be a brief introduction to Unity3d as a tool for depicting your shared worlds &#8211; though note the workshop is tool-agnostic and you may use a medium or technology of your choosing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, over the course of a week you\u2019ll create artifacts and a story around your co-imagined world (physical, digital, or performance-based). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Day 2: you\u2019ll use the artifacts you created to share back the story of your world. As a class, we\u2019ll discuss the themes and ideas your world embodied!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class can be especially fruitful for students looking for a creative way to see their thesis research through a totally new lens!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might also consider taking this class if they are interested in: Designing interactive pedagogical tools and workshops, Having lively conversations with your peers about systems and our roles within them, Constraint-based design as a way of generative creativity, How imagination and play can produce change, A break from our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in Futures is a two day speculative worlding workshop in which you and your classmates will co-imagine worlds (some absurd, impossible, likely, or improbable) and inhabit them through conversation, craft, and play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-tier-2-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}