We are inviting contributions to the Strategic Handbook of Worldbuilding (working title), a forthcoming proposal for the Routledge Business Book Series. This handbook will explore future foresight and demonstrate how worldbuilding techniques—from design fiction and speculative design to virtual production, performance-based methods, and filmmaking—can drive business and social innovation.
Edited by: Satu Miettinen (She/Her), Amna Qureshi & Paula Wuth
📚 Book Sections:
1️⃣ Imagination / Speculation – Concepts of worldbuilding, design fiction, speculative design, storytelling as design, creating future scenarios, and speculative protopias.
2️⃣ Realisation / Materialisation – Using design, service design, and arts-based methods to prototype, test, and assess plural and desired futures.
3️⃣ Strategising / Continuation / Transformation – Foresight methodologies for strategy-making, innovation processes, and value co-creation.
💡 Submission Guidelines:
400-word abstract including title and keywords
Indicate which section you are addressing
Specify if your focus is theory, methodology/tools, or a case study
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2025
📩 Send abstracts to: worldbuilding.editors@gmail.com
This book will serve as both a practical and theoretical guide for shaping futures in uncertain contexts, offering fresh perspectives at the intersection of design, art, and strategy. It will bring together diverse voices to create a robust resource that inspires and guides the futures we aim to build.
