Come meet everyone on October 16: Info session about our new Worldbuilding academy!

[alberto]

@Alessandro

PS: @alberto, how the heck is it possible that so many weird things I love or tinker about, are living topics, with expert knowledge, within the Edgeryders community?! I love this place!

This made my day, @Alessandro

[moe]

hi all, is this happening now?
I had registered on Eventbrite yesterday, last minute, but didn’t get any zoom detail…

[Alessandro]

Same here, I can’t see the link. What are we missing?

[MariaEuler]

Hello @moe, did you get the link in the end?

The event just concluded. You can find the informations about the residency here:

you can post any questions you there as well.

Writers residency: Come lead the Worldbuilding Academy

The Worldbuilding Academy is a writers’ residency organized by Fondazione di Comunità Messina (FdCM) and Sci-Fi Economics Lab (SF-ECON). Please consider applying. In this post you find the relevant information. [image] Concept Worldbuilding is the activity of constructing an imaginary world, often for the purpose of acting as the backdrop for a creative endeavor (a book, a film, a video game). Developing an imaginary setting with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, and ecology is…

[moe]

hey @MariaEuler,
yes I got it, thank you. I also read through the main information already but, much like @Alessandro, I was more interested in lurking a bit, as I won’t be able to take 2 weeks off from work unfortunately.
It was good to hear that there’s an option for us to follow the project anyway, though, even if not actively participating in the residency.
I will try and attend the next webinar as well but it’ll be trickier for me, time-wise. It would be nice if next time you could record the session.

Great initiative, as usual, BTW

[alberto]

Heads up, everyone: following a question asked at the information session of October 16th, we added a paragraph about intellectual property rights to the information sheet. Thank you to @LeneRachelAndersen for raising the issue.

@andreja

Intellectual property rights

After the information session of October 16th, a clarification on IPRs:

• The Worldbuilding Bible or Worldbuilding Canon , the world itself, is the intellectual property of its author(s), but must be licensed with a Creative Commons – Attribution license.
• Any actual work set in the world described thereby (novel, or short story, or film, or game, or economics paper or whatever), is the intellectual property of its author(s), who license(s) it or not any way they want. Since the world is open source, these rights are not tainted by claims over the creative input that went into making the world.

[alberto]

I saw you in the call, Stefano… good to see you, as always!

[futuretester]

Are you interested in exploring speculative futures or have even done so before? Tell us what inspires your thought experiments and where your interest originates:
I was a professional speculative designer at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California for 10 years, generating future-fictional products, postcards, videos, first-person narratives, immersive shops, and many more formats.

[gceh22]

I am very interested in this program. I am working on project maplesync. It is about the futures of economic coordination and deals with the question: “How might we inclusively coordinate, allocate, and plan our economies for mutual prosperity through collective intelligence?”

Project Maplesync is a platform initiative, inspired by the field of cybernetics, to form indicative plans and other information integration functions at different economic scales and contexts.

Maplesync is in its early stages as an open-source project to inspire new thinking on this topic and to generate new experiments in the field, and we are looking for collaborators!

Find out more at www.maplesync.ca, or contact me through twitter @gceh

[waeljebri]

Have you been able to record the sesssion?
Unfortunately, I missed it !

[alberto]

Hello all, thanks for joining the information session, that was fun. Documentation from the session is here. This answers your question, @waeljebri

Welcome, @futuretester and @gceh22! To the latter: I looked up Maplesync, but I do not yet understand what phase you are in, can you say more about that?

[owen]

Are you interested in exploring speculative futures or have even done so before? Tell us what inspires your thought experiments and where your interest originates:
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