Struggling to balance or integrate creative flow with academic rigour will probably continue to be the #1 challenge to tackle during this project. Some time ago, I began to scout for some good literature to inform the creation of my board game on several layers: reflecting main themes in game mechanics forest ecology/restoration and climateContinue reading Climate vampires and the inspiration dilemma

As I dust off my shorts and sunglasses, eager to soak in the famous Edinburgh spring, I realise: I must enjoy that sun whilst I can, for the Final Project is waiting to take hold of me from behind the next corner. That is, right after I finish the last few course assessments. A timelyContinue reading The Sacred Timeline

This morning, the following title variation feels closest to the heart of my project: Popularising ecosystem restoration to reimagine climate futures, tighten human-nature relationships and empower a #GenerationRestoration: a narrative-driven strategy board game How did I get to this point? Throughout the ideation of my project (it has not yet really moved beyond ideation, butContinue reading Escaping the Ron Swanson dilemma

I thought I won’t have much to reflect on in relation to my electives, but let’s try. Perhaps unfortunately, I have chosen the AI and Storytelling, hoping that I am gonna learn how to train AI to support me in juggling the multilayered stream of ideas and thoughts I have been dotting down in regardsContinue reading To AI or not to AI – that is my question to you

Okay, it is getting closer! No stress. But, I feel that I have a very clear challenge to grasp this Semester. To date, my project is alive (in my head) and blossoming (in an ever-growing Google Docs of notes). However, safe to say that academically, it is still wrapped in mystery. I know what I’m doing: aContinue reading It’s about time I also start researching…

I was (naively) hoping it wouldn’t come to this! “Methodology? Aren’t we being creative? Cannot the creative process be my method?” Ah right, it can’t! Because that’s what my project wants to challenge in the first place: Creators across media do stuff about the environment, hoping that their works will inspire people to act, butContinue reading Two roads diverge in an eco-storytelling wood – and I will take the one less traveled by

What? My project’s what remains the only part of it that seems final, unchanging. The concrete articulation of it changes in nuances every time I try to put it down in words. But, I know that my overall “mission” is to support ecosystem restoration (see, for example, UN Decade). Specifically, I want to foster a link betweenContinue reading By the end of this programme, we will have something to play.

I am starting to understand that the scope of my final project, if it is to be an all-rounded, complete piece of work, will probably end up merging a lot of my initially-separate ideas together. I’m here to make something good. The Int. futures readings about mushrooms, as well as the KIPP lecture on data,Continue reading Both below ground and above it

First week of the World of Story is behind us – well, the first and the last, I suppose? The intensive programme structure is really refreshing, but I can already see it will require a bit of practice to get used to it. The two intensive days meant being quite positively overwhelmed with inputs, prompts,Continue reading You are Little Red Riding Hood. What do you do next?

My decision to study Narrative Futures was fueled predominantly by passion and intuition. My aims are, first and foremost, to get creative and have fun. I trust in the process and that any academic or professional benefits will arise from that – and only that. Back in 2022, I chose the programme with a clearerContinue reading Welcoming Dionysus & benching Apollo