'Wordling' and Doing Community Right

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Izzy White
April 05, 2024

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This 60-page ‘memo’ explores wordling as a progressive creative practice, prototyping and re-imaging alternative futures. It takes you through 10 different worlds, created by leading artists and collectives - utilising a variety of formats and technology. If you only read 2 pages of this document, it would be the intro ones under “Why are we worlding?”. Before this document, I hadn’t heard of the word, but we’ve all spoken about it in some change or form over the years and it’s exciting to uncover terms that simply explain human behaviours. And finally, a lovely description as to why this isn’t simply world-building. “[Wordling] It’s about imagining alternative futures. But also about speculating, prototyping, and inviting possibility by creating immersive realities. Worlding signifies the continuous, ever-evolving, collaborative effort of making worlds emerge rather than creating a closed universe by an individual master creator.” 

The discussion of sustainability will always be dire, yet flimsy. The majority of people understand its importance yet their behaviours don’t seem to match. This contradiction is one we speak about often but has sparked conversations through a recent Fashion Accountability Report that reported celebrity brands such as SKIMS and Savage X Fenty scoring on par with ultra-fast fashion brands like Temu, Missguided and Fashion Nova. This raises further questions about why celebrity brands get given the blind eye. While it’s up to the big corporations to adjust their practices and policies, people need to approach sustainability and fashion with a more nuanced perspective. Sustainability is a complicated word, and we should all approach it with an open mind.

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