building better worlds through science fiction...implication for science fiction: a new subgenre...
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Building Better Worlds Through Science Fiction
By: Maheen Zaidi
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The Undetected Signal
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The Power of Narratives
Storytelling is Essential to Our Humanity
Objective Reality vs Fiction
Science Fiction Drives Tech Innovation
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Science Fiction is Power.
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And Yet...
Science fiction does not influence social innovation to the same extent.
Why?
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Slaughter: Why Organizations Fail at Foresight
Short-Term Thinking
Bounded Rationality
Unexamined Presuppositions
Mainstream Economics
Limited Use of Futures Methods
Lack of Futures Literacy
Lack of Capacity
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We Do Not Understand The Complexity of Our World
Let’s Add One More...
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What’s Missing from Science Fiction?
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Science Fiction Narratives...
● Begin or end on the precipice of change
● Resemble alternative realities
● Take place in a galaxy far, far away
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What Do We Need?
1. Stories that leverage backcasting and show transitions
2. Acknowledge that reality can be rewritten
3. Better integrate foresight, systems, and narratives
4. Focus not only on social innovation, but transition design
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An Answer: Worldbuilding
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The Seven Pillars of Worldbuilding
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The Seven Pillars of WorldbuildingPhilosophical • Epistemology, metaphysics, value theory, logic and reason, and human nature
Political • Creation, maintenance, and governance of entities
Economic • Management of wealth and resources
Environmental• Ecological systems, including physical and contextual space
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The Seven Pillars of WorldbuildingScientific and Technological• Observation of and experiment with the natural and physical world
Social• Social constructs, relational dynamics of our world and the systems
Artistic• Representation, expression, and form
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Worldbuilding Model: Adding Timescale
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Time Scale: Individual
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Time Scale: Communal/Organizational
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Time Scale: Societal
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Time Scale: Civilizational
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End Result: Reimaginings of New World Orders
• Complete worlds
• Systemically designed
• With civilizational foresight in mind
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Incremental Shift: Current State
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Preferred State: 30 Years
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Backcast: 20 Years
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Backcast: 10 Years
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End Result: Transition Design
• Systemic evolution over incremental periods of time
• Backcasting a system from its preferred state
• Transition plan that connects our current state to that preferred state
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Real World Applications
• Creating new systems
• Transitioning current systems
• Foresight tool
• Narrative design tool
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Implication for Science Fiction: A New Subgenre
Write Transtopias
Show us not only what the future could be but also how to get there.
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Thank You
Stuart Candy
MicheleMastroeni
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Live Long and Prosper