This Unfinished WorldWhat happens when we invite the past and present into conversation with the future? In our next chapter, we are exploring how storyworlds evolve over time—layered with memory, imagination, media, and lived experience. What do the accumulated stories of a place tell us, not just about its past, but about its many possible futures? This Unfinished World gathers fragments of place: memories, local artworks, photographs and news media to explore how stories shape the futures we imagine. Working across time and medium, the project invites community members to contribute visual or narrative pieces connected to a specific public place. These are then layered with current socio-political context—including issues like automation, displacement, or environmental risk—and used to generate speculative storyworlds of that place utilizing creative AI tools. Blurring the line between research and co-design, this project asks: how do we inhabit places through narrative? How might storytelling—personal, speculative, visual—be used to uncover, question, and reimagine the spaces we share? Drawing on narrative theory, sensory ethnography, and emerging AI tools, This Unfinished World gathers personal memories, images, and collective fears and hopes to speculate on the future of familiar urban environments. It's a collaborative invitation: to reflect on what is, imagine what might be, and design in the gaps between. If you’re interested in contributing please get in touch. |