In 2021 the CUSP and PERC Centres at Goldsmiths, University of London presented a session where we played Peek with some experts in their fields to help create some interesting, playful, and even occasionally positive stories about the near future.
The event page was here:
https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/a/speculative-storytelling-28jun/
In case that page goes away, the detailes are archived here:
Stories are how we make sense of the world and help to shape our collective future. In this online event we will explore future science and speculative fiction narratives using a framework based on the Peek game.
Watch as a group of experts from different backgrounds play together to create collaborative story worlds by combining fictional individuals, organisations and classic storytelling elements.
They will explore themes of economics and collaborative ownership; sustainability and the changing environment; AI, automation, and labour issues; human-animal relations; religion, family, friendship, and how technology is forever changing them.
Together, they will invent compelling and personal narratives of the “everyday future” that are often missing from academic research.
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The videos were recorded from the Zoom event and originally put on YouTube but have since been taken down. I’ve archived them here: