What is it to make a world – and why is storytelling important? A
What is a world? What kind of world do you want to live in? How do writers and artists make worlds and imagine new possibilities? At this talk, chaired by Susanna Davies-Crook, we explore feminist, queer and speculative strategies for envisioning how we might re-make our world through storytelling, gaming and worldbuilding. The panel discusses Steering the Craft – Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the tools of a writer’s craft: how, and why, to write – and the surrealist dream worlds of Leonora Carrington and Chloe Aridjis.
Sammy Lee and Sarah Shin will also present an overview of their mythical game world, Mirror: The Mountain. With non-linear storytelling inspired by the archetypes of tarot, the game delves into themes of memory, mythology, and the entanglement of mind and cosmos.
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