Worldmaking means making worlds visible and imaginable before trying to improve them. At Socratus our hypothesis is worldmaking before world-bettering, and the word comes from Nelson Goodman.
How the word moved
It started in April 2023 with Worldmaking Part I in the Messenger, and through 2023 it grew into the Ways of Worldmaking series and Shaktiville. By September 2026 the team could say that Socratus has always been interested in worldmaking. Which is a nice way of saying we keep coming back to it.
In my words
"These are the kinds of questions we need to grapple through Worldmaking."
from Worldmaking Part I, 17 Apr 2023
Related
- Related weltist - Worldmaking reuses the Weltist passages.
- Related sensome - The sensome is our take on worldmaking.
- Related Shaktiville - It's the example we actually built.
- Related concept worlds - Concept worlds are worldmaking artifacts.