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The economy, different.

Inspired by science fiction, we nurture and support new, radical ways to think about the economy and economic policy.

Witness

Witness is the last of humanity’s great floating cities, adrift in a post-climate change ocean. From an idea by Nebula-nominated author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, we built it as an open source world where different economic systems coexist side by side.

Residencies and workshops

We build worlds, model their economies, and use the models to think about what we should do next, right here on Earth.

A Town by the Sea

When rising sea levels threaten your community, will you retreat inland or fight to save what you can? A worldbuilding game on triage and climate grief, developed with game designer Matteo Uguzzoni.

Wiki

A community-curated selection of economically inclined science fiction work. Butler, Le Guin, Doctorow, Robinson…

People

Model builders, narrative weavers, and agitators. Some of them, at least.

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