In this exploratory paper we propose ‘worldmaking’ as a framework for pluralistic, imaginative scenario development. Our points of departure are the need in scenario practice to embrace uncertainty, discomfort and knowledge gaps, and the connected need to capture and make productive fundamental plurality among understandings of the future. To help respond to these needs, we introduce what Nelso...

WORLDMAKING AND THE EXPERIMENTAL IN ARCHITECTURE In architecture's recent history, experimenta-tions witnessing the involvement of current transdisciplinary praxis of cybernetics and biotechnology have contributed a great deal to the worldmaking of new design imperatives of semi-natural systems and theoretical discourse in the field. The article explores interim stages of such experimentations ...

We study the symplectic nature of the moduli stack of dormant indigenous bundles on proper hyperbolic curves. Our aim of the present paper is to consider the positive characteristic analogue of work of S. Kawai (in the paper entitled “The symplectic nature of the space of projective connections on Riemann surfaces”), P. Arés-Gastesi, and I. Biswas. The main result asserts a certain compatibilit...

The deployment of strategic stories, that is, stories designed to prevail over adversaries, is at work in domestic politics as well diplomacy. In both cases, the strategy has two aims: create a division between ‘us’ and ‘them’, same time ascribe moral supremacy ‘our side’ while posing ‘their an existential threat. Strategic storytelling specialises discrimination foe creation, but nature actors...