Another World is Possible

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that

makes the existing model obsolete.”

― Buckminster Fuller

In early October, 2024, several teams of creative technologists, artists, designers and friends
came together to create something extraordinary and real - Another World is Possible.

Another World is Possible represents the culmination of a vision for new physical/digital experience platforms and regenerative information economies for collective experimentation in service of building toward shared protopian futures. Part exhibition, part experiment, part immersive experience, Another World is Possible opened new possibilities through a practice of collective worldbuilding for a better tomorrow, today.

We welcomed visitors into a new reality to shape new

stories and imagine new worlds together.

Another World is Possible invites us to imagine new ways to bring emerging tech to the public and share vital information about technological transformations happening in the world around us. An incredibly significant footnote for everyone involved, in a continuum of collective imagining that extends beyond our own time and space. Most significantly, this was the first experimental, working prototype of our aspirational economic framework, first outlined in 2019.
Learn more about this here.

Some of what we created:

4 interactive vignettes
4 original games
A new single from multidisciplinary artist Ellex Swavoni
Dozens of pieces of content, film, photography & illustration
An original comic book
AR experiences
Countless pages of carefully curated research
Presentations, performance
Community Time Bank
And the first functional prototype of a regenerative economic model originally conceived in 2019, all in a playable,
choose your own adventure experience.

This was also the first public debut of our new spatial worldbuilding platform, YOO (launching soon, try it here!)

With YOO, we developed XR Radio, a storyworld built by Mikkoh, Ellex Swavoni, Derek Holguin & Branden Collins.

Another World is Possible was proudly #madebyhumans.
Infinite gratitude for all those who made another world possible:

ZOO AS ZOO
The Bardo
Sienna Brown
My T. Nguyen
Mario Fernando
Austin Presley
Sonali Gupta
Vivian Chavez
The Bardo
Allie Bashuk
Derek Holguin
Ellex Swavoni
Abi Lambert
Lyly Hoang
Alisa Khieu
Anand Pal
Onyew Kim
Lauryn Morris
Pinar Yoldas

Information, Identity & the probability of possible worlds.

“Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.”
- Genesis P-Orridge

Are we fated to exist in an infinite loop of oppression, extraction and inequality or is it possible to create a protopian
world free from unnecessary hunger, poverty, homelessness, warfare, ecological degeneration, unwanted disease and coercive labor?

“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Possible worlds and modal reasoning have made "counterfactual" arguments extremely popular in current philosophy.
Possible worlds, especially the idea of "nearby worlds" that differ only slightly from the actual world, are used to examine
the validity of modal notions such as necessity and contingency, possibility and impossibility, truth and falsity.
Scientists use models to represent and explain the world, and to make predictions.
Models can be physical objects, diagrams, equations, or computer programs.

Information can quantify the information in different possible worlds
and thus establish the relative possibilities or "information distance" from our actual world.

Order & Disorder: Harnessing the Power of Information

“To be Black is already to occupy an alternate reality: you are forced to accept as fact that which is not,
by any accounts, real, but which still shapes your life in undeniably real ways.”

Listervelt Middleton, “the record keeper”, host of “For the People” which provided an intellecctual forum for the understanding of African History.

Information

“The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society.”
- George Washington, President and owner of enslaved peoples. 244 years ago, the “great” American experiment began.

Worldbuilding is a kind of indexing.
A mapping & cataloging of the information that describes our world at a given point in time.

Through integrated information science we can create the most accurate descriptions of our world at specific points in time and space.
With integrated information from data synthesized by technology like digital twins and cultural practices like storytelling,
we can even more accurately index, describe & measure our informational distance from ours to other actual worlds.

We can then develop a systems-wide process of alter-globalization, a better world.

Index

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