no one is to blame, but everyone's complicit: the necessity of practice-based theories of change
Before I start digging deep into practice-based theories of change, it's well worth asking why I think they're useful.
Paul Graham Raven
pass the vol-au-vents
Hello, worldbuilders! And welcome to those of you who've signed up in the last few days. Glad you could come—take a chair, get yourself a drink. How are things?
We've got no Actual Announcement this week; I would announce again that I've giving
week 33 / 2024
Muggy, sticky, clammy... and that's just my handshake! This week, we've got Kentucky gentlemen and New Yorickan communists, and a whole lot more besides.
against the ideas of the nineteen-hundreds: an interview with Karl Schroeder
An interview with author, designer and foresight practitioner Karl Schroeder, on worldbuilding (of course), narrative as an analytical tool, leaving behind the ideas of the nineteen-hundreds, and much more.
the circus comes to town
Hello, worldbuilders! This is your weekly newsthingy... and we're gonna start with An Actual Announcement.
Talk and workshop: The Conference, Malmö, Mon 26th August 2024
I will be giving a talk entitled Wisdom for worldbuilders: fictions, futures, fandoms on the morning of Mon 26th August.
Said talk is
week 32 / 2024
Malmöfestivalen and the rain have arrived in town at the same time; who will win? We ask this and much much more in this week's Worldbuilding Agency weeknotes... now in an exciting new format!
it isn't the phones (but it isn't not the phones)
Let's clamber into the express elevator with Karl Schroeder, and have a little think about EVs and the Doomscroll. Mind the doors!