“it matters what stories tell stories, it matters what thoughts think thoughts, it matters what worlds world worlds” (Donna Haraway 2014)

To world is to make worlds; worlds world. In this workshop participants collaboratively construct a fictional or imaginary world through a series of exercises and discussions, a world of radical otherness. The making of an imaginary world is to engage the re-making the present world, seeking to challenge, unravel and potentially un-learn the existing ways of knowing and being in the world. Through an innovative feminist world-making practice, the structural and material underpinnings of bias and inequality will be revealed. The aim of this workshop is to explore material relations of being to thinking, or more specifically, to propose practices of making and living from which new or alternative ways of knowing can emerge.

This workshop has been conducted in a variety of academic and extra-academic contexts including Architecture Fringe 2021 and The Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Global Connects international summer school.

Worlding Fictions & Fictional Worlds is a 20 credit postgraduate elective module designed and delivered by Dave at The Glasgow School of Art. Exploring a variety of fictional contexts, including speculative worlds, scenarios, and narratives, students undertake learning to engage a distinct critical function of worlding. The focus of this learning is the development of a framework to interrogate the co-constitutive conditions of nature and culture, thinking and being, and engage with ‘radical otherness’ to challenge and potentially unravel conventions of power and inequality that exist in our everyday lived experience.

The Worlding Matters reading group is convened by Dave at The Glasgow School of Art. This cross-school platform focuses on Feminist New Materialism philosophies in the context of the creative disciplines. Broadly sited under the umbrella of ‘worlding’, these modes of thinking and being embrace posthumanism, object orientated ontology, speculative realism, agential realism, accelerationism, geophilosophy, xeno-feminism and much more.