Week 27 / 2024
This week: why it's good to end a workshop when there's still energy in the room... and why it's good (for me, at least) to act the fool somewhat.
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Week 26 / 2024
This weeknotes will be brief, as the whole week has been spent on site in Bergen, Norway, doing workshops for PROJECT TEMPORAL.
And I guess you get to learn at the same time as me that there will be weeks like this, when the weeknotes simply state that you spent
Week 25 / 2024
Greetings from midsommar, a day which—as far as I can tell—matters more to most Swedes than Christmas. As a long-time fan of sunshine and warmth, I can dig it... though I'll pass on the pickled herring, thanks.
This week has been dominated by finishing the first-draft
Week 24 / 2024
Welcome back to weeknotes at Worldbuilding Agency!
This week has mostly involved:
* the production of stories for the latest collaborative foresight cycle book from Media Evolution, plus
* a certain amount of admin, and a related amount of hurry-up-and-wait, related to PROJECT TEMPORAL
(Yes, I have grudgingly decided to give the
Week 23 / 2024
Well, here we are again. Operations at Magrathea Futures this week have included co-planning a workshop to be delivered at the end of the month, and the slow, patient rebooting of a focussed reading-for-research practice. More news on these in weeks to come—and also on the glorious paleofutures pictured
Week 22 / 2024
Well, where did that week go? This is, of course, the question that weeknotes are meant to answer... but the philosophers among you will surely acknowledge (however grudgingly) that no answer can ever be complete.
One Big Thing
This week's big thing was surely two days of workshops
Week 21 / 2024
This has been a difficult week, for reasons I can't quite explain, even to myself. Difficult isn't even the right word, really; it's just been a week in which it's been hard to get any traction.
There's various reasons one
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schedule adjustment notice
Hello, worldbuilders!
Just a quick note to let you know: it occurred to me this morning that my spending a bunch of time compiling weeknotes which don't get emailed to you, only to then spend a shorter amount of time two days later writing a short note alerting
hot in the city 2nite
Hello worldbuilders! It's 28°C in Malmö this afternoon, and it's reliably been around that temperature in the afternoon for close to a week now.
I quite like hot weather, really, but a lot of other folk are less keen—and I dare say I'
call it in, take it off
Hello, worldbuilders! It's been quiet here this last week, because around this time on the Sunday previous I started thinking "hmm, I don't feel so great", and by the evening I was feeling (as we Brits say) like death warmed over.
Hell knows what
less magic, more traffic
Hello, worldbuilders! It feels a lot like the roundabout just hasn't stopped spinning over the week just gone—and next week it's The Conference, which means the metaphorical carny will be reaching out his hairy hand to give it another good shove... which means there'
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
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
null but not void
Hello, worldbuilders! What's been happening at Worldbuilding Agency this week?
No essay or interview
Um, yeah—bit of an absence at the middle of the week, wasn't there? Sorry about that.
There's an interview in the pipe, but it's awaiting approval from
Weeknotes
week 19 / 2025
Counting the beats, coming in on the one—WEEKNOTES rock the rhythm 'til the tune says stop.
This week, we're up in the mountains with Olga Tockarczuk, and down in the valleys of art.
week 18 / 2025
Dodging drunk kids, spurning pagan conflagrations—WEEKNOTES marches into May with flags unfurled!
This week, the grid goes down, but the work goes on.
week 17 / 2025
Looping the loops and riding the curves—a white-knuckle WEEKNOTES that only just came in to land.
This week, a wall is hit (albeit slowly), and "AI" is treated as normal.
week 16 / 2025
Hunching over the desk, hanging out with the wise animals—WEEKNOTES rocks out with the cherubs for a change.
This week, the social and the technical are inseparable, and ol' man Burroughs plays with scissors and celluloid.
week 15 / 2025
Paddling away from Calypso's island, claiming false identities in every encounter—the genre of WEEKNOTES is never merely a tale, but also its telling!
This week, it all adds up in the end, and Emily Wilson sets sail on the wine-dark sea.
week 14 / 2025
Organic patterns emerge from deterministic rules, causal connections go unnoticed—WEEKNOTES start the simulation and sees what happens.
This week, ecosystems get their freak on, and Solarists reach the edge of the rational.
week 13 / 2025
Dusty with fragments of citation and punctuation, blinking in the sudden light—WEEKNOTES emerge briefly from the word-mines!
This week, the nose goes the grindstone, and Toffler goes to China.