Special Topics:听World Building & Storytelling
World Building & Storytelling will ask students to imagine, ideate, and develop a distant future and fictional world that is inhabited by a population surviving on the detritus of their history. Specifically, you will propose a possible future for Boulder after a complete global infrastructural collapse and create stories that take place in that future. It is likely that the world you develop will be built on a foundation of the outcomes of decisions made on our present-day planet. You will develop narrative environments and media projects that will provoke characters within the world to tell stories of their desires, fears, and encounters with their future-present society.
World building is evolutionary, holistic, and collaborative. You will be required to listen carefully to one another to develop collective intelligence for the context and rules of the world you create and the stories that emerge. In this transdisciplinary class, you will be asked to bring the full range of your interests and capabilities into our work.
Ultimately, the world(s) you build will allow you to tell original stories in the media of your choosing, reflecting on both our possible future and our shared present.
Arts & Sciences Gen Ed: Elective
3 credit hours