Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== Worldbuilding ==== Worldbuilding is literally about building a world on a macro and micro scale, in rich detail. The technique comes from (sci-fi and fantasy) storytelling and role-playing games, where the authors create whole fictional universes in which many stories can happen. In futuring, and specifically [[incasting]], worldbuilding can add new dimensions to a scenario, as adding colour to a black-and-white movie. Worldbuilding is about fleshing out the scenario into a fully-fledged "world", populated with cultures and events, maps of places and landscapes. This exercise can take from 15 minutes to months or years, depending on the world-building purpose. === Process === A skeletal scenario or another type of sketch that came out of a [[speculation_and_visioning|visioning]] exercise should exist before beginning this exercise. Worldbuilding can be done in a workshop, or it can be a writing and visualising exercise that can continue online after the workshop. It can also be outsourced to writers or game designers outside of the group, or people who are a part of the facilitation team. ==== References ==== * A masterful worldbuilding of [[http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm|The Culture]] by Iain Banks * Worldbuilding on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldbuilding|Wikipedia]] * [[http://io9.com/5039477/the-rules-of-quick-and-dirty-worldbuilding|how to begin and [[http://io9.com/7-deadly-sins-of-worldbuilding-998817537|what to avoid]] in worldbuilding * Kate Messner on [[http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-build-a-fictional-world-kate-messner|How to build a fictional world]] * Worldbuilding in futures: [[http://lib.fo.am/future_fabulators/agoras_workshop|Agoras Workshop]] with [[http://www.pantopicon.be/|Pantopicon]] Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International futurist_fieldguide/worldbuilding.1432214622.txt.gz Last modified: 2015-05-21 13:23by maja