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\u2014from design fiction and speculative design to virtual production, performance-based methods, and filmmaking\u2014can drive business and social innovation.
\nEdited by: Satu Miettinen (She\/Her), Amna Qureshi & Paula Wuth<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcda Book Sections:
\n1\ufe0f\u20e3 Imagination \/ Speculation \u2013 Concepts of worldbuilding, design fiction, speculative design, storytelling as design, creating future scenarios, and speculative protopias.
\n2\ufe0f\u20e3 Realisation \/ Materialisation \u2013 Using design, service design, and arts-based methods to prototype, test, and assess plural and desired futures.
\n3\ufe0f\u20e3 Strategising \/ Continuation \/ Transformation \u2013 Foresight methodologies for strategy-making, innovation processes, and value co-creation.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udca1 Submission Guidelines:
\n400-word abstract including title and keywords
\nIndicate which section you are addressing
\nSpecify if your focus is theory, methodology\/tools, or a case study<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcc5 Deadline: 1 September 2025
\n\ud83d\udce9 Send abstracts to: worldbuilding.editors@gmail.com<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u2014from design fiction and speculative design to virtual production, performance-based methods, and filmmaking\u2014can drive business and social innovation. Edited by: Satu Miettinen (She\/Her), Amna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":8882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n