Conversations on World Building

In March this year, we launched a new Long Now Lab, on “world building”. Over five sessions, the participants unpacked the speculative concept of ”world building”, as it is in use across gaming, art, science fiction, politics, storytelling and urban design – situating themselves here in Amsterdam in the process.

On June 8th, we open the doors of this intimate workshop to the public, where we will be joined by Taka Taka aka Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos. What will follow is an immersion into the practice of Taka Taka, through the lens of dragtivism, and a group discussion where everyone is invited to partake – moderated by Isobel Dryburgh with the help of the Long Now Lab-group.

About Taka Taka
Taka Taka is the godmother and art director of the House of Hopelezz and Club Church, they are a sister to others, mother of the drag king, House of Løstbois, proud daughter of Jennifer Hopelezz and co-founder of the non-profit Drag King Academy Amsterdam. Taka Taka acts as a dragtivist, educator, queer theorist and independent curator who produces performances on a weekly basis as creative director for the Amsterdam‘s sex positive underground night Club Church since 2013.

About World Building
World building, in our workshops has invited acts of transformation, through role play, storytelling, city building and the capacity of the imagination to instigate real world change. We’ve asked ourselves – from where did worldbuilding emerge as a term, practice and concept? How do we “do” it? What tools enable imagining new worlds and what allows that imagination to cross over into reality?

With the help of Tom K Kemp, Alexander Cromer, Ekim Tan, Juliette Lizotte and Taka Taka we have opened up a whole universe of imaginative frameworks which enable new worlds to be seen, enacted and made.