Presented at Sweden Games Conference,19th Oct, 2018, Skvode, Sweden. Video and speech available here: https://www.christydena.com/2018/11/my-sweden-games-conference-talk-worldbuilding-our-world/
1. WORLDBUILDING OUR WORLD
(How what we make affects the world, and ourselves)
ALTERNATE REALITIES
CHRISTY DENA, UNIVERSE CREATION 101,
SWEDEN GAMES CONFERENCE, OCT 19th 2018
@christydena
3. LIFE CLIPBOARD QUESTIONS
1) Why is it I donโt find many AAA, double AA and Hollywood
studios appealing to work in, despite the great talent and
resources?
2) How can I help others understand/ justify why I turn down
working with some great clients and companies?
3) Do you really have to make one kind of project for a mass
market?
4) What other ways can the core essence of a creative project be
understood?
5) Do I, and others, do harm with the projects we create?
6) Can creative projects really change the world?
7) Can I, can you, change the world, now?
4.
5. PETER BERGER & THOMAS LUCKMANโS
โTHE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITYโ
6. DEFINING REALITY, QUICKLY
โRealityโ = โphenomena that we
recognize as having a being
independent of our own volitionโ, we
canโt โwish them awayโ
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann (1991 [1966])
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, UK: Penguin Books, p.15
10. Our activities become habits
We are freed from the burden of decisions
Our activities become routines
Our activities become automatic
We forget we had choices
14. Institutions are experienced as objective reality,
but are human constructions
We create an โobjective realityโ
through our externalisations
15. Reification (we ascribe our social reality to anything
but our minds), Internalization (we take on the
social order), and Roles (we be the types)
CBSโ โTHE BIG BANG THEORYโ
16. Institutions exert coercive control socially, &
through Socialisation & Internationalization
shouldnโt need additional control mechanisms
Photo by the Boston Herald newspaper
17. The Social Construction of Reality
OBJECTIVE
REALITY
SUBJECTIVE
REALITY
ExternalizationHabitualization
Institutionalization Internalization
18. WORLDBUILDING OUR WORLD:
Four Key Realities/Universes
1. Paramount Reality/Universe
2. Reality Maintenance
3. Reality Metamorphoses
4. Universe Creation
Developed from Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmannโs (1991 [1966])
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, UK: Penguin Books.
19. The Reality of Everyday Life is the Paramount Reality
OBJECTIVE
REALITY
SUBJECTIVE
REALITY
PARAMOUNT REALITY
โAmong the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence.
This is the reality of everyday life. Itโs privileged position entitles it to the designation of
paramount reality. [...] It is impossible to ignore, difficult even to weaken in its imperative
presence. Consequently, it forces me to be attentive to it in the fullest way. [...] I apprehend
the reality of everyday life as an ordered reality. Its phenomena are prearranged in patterns
that seem to be independent of my apprehension of themโฆโ
20. PARAMOUNT UNIVERSE
โThe reality of everyday life is taken for granted as
reality. It does not require additional verification
over and beyond its simple presence. It is simply
there, as self-evident and compelling facticity. I
know that it is real. [...]โ
โeverybody knowsโ
21. How can you make for the Paramount
Universe if you donโt agree with it?
25. โthe world of everyday life proclaims itself and,
when I want to challenge the proclamation,
I must engage in a deliberate, by no means easy effort.โ
42. UNIVERSE MAINTENANCE
โputs everything in itโs right placeโ
โreturn to realityโ
โInstitutional conduct and roles =
primacy in the hierarchy of human
experienceโ
46. TRUMPโS โMAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAINโ
โputs everything in
itโs right placeโ
โreturn to realityโ
(Associated Press)
โIt should not surprise us,
then, that a profound affinity
exists between those with
an interest in maintaining
established power positions
and the personnel
administering monopolistic
traditions of universe-
maintenance.โ
50. UNIVERSE CREATION
The difference here, is that rather than
aiming your creations towards
maintaining or changing existing
realities, youโre co-creating a new social
reality.
51. AARON SORKINโS โWEST WINGโ
You can
only stretch
your
imagination
as far as
your have
personally
stretched
your inner
world.
58. FRED ROGERSโ โMISTER ROGERSโ NEIGHBOURHOODโ
MORGAN NEVILLEโS โWONโT YOU BE MY NEIGHBOURโ
MARIELLE HELLERโS โYOU ARE MY FRIENDโ
59. FRED ROGERSโ โMISTER ROGERSโ NEIGHBOURHOODโ
MORGAN NEVILLEโS โWONโT YOU BE MY NEIGHBOURโ
MARIELLE HELLERโS โYOU ARE MY FRIENDโ
61. Tru Luvโs โ#SelfCareโ
The first step to creating a universe is
creating yourself.
We stare into the alchemical cauldron
and see our interior world.
It is there that new pathways,
new lands are created.
62.
63. LIFE CLIPBOARD QUESTIONS
1) Why is it I donโt find many AAA, double AA and Hollywood
studios appealing to work in, despite the great talent and
resources?
2) How can I help others understand/ justify why I turn down
working with some great clients and companies?
3) Do you really have to make one kind of project for a mass
market?
4) What other ways can the core essence of a creative project be
understood?
5) Do I, and others, do harm with the projects we create?
6) Can creative projects really change the world?
7) Can I, can you, change the world, now?