AFROFUTURE
WORLD-BUILD
Afrofuture world-building is a creative approach to ethically expanding futures thinking.
The Future of Erotic Power
April 19, 2025
11 am EST
Join us for an immersive exploration of a future where the erotic is a force for liberation, connection, and abundance. Through speculative storytelling and collective imagination, we’ll design worlds where pleasure shapes governance, technology, and daily life. Let’s build futures that pulse with desire, justice, and joy.
Our Afrofuture World-build Approach
Rooted in the principles of abundance and harmony, our work is guided by the Dinkinesh Method, a culturally specific framework designed to foster transformative change. Together, we co-create worlds free from anti-Blackness and institutional racism. Through this speculative exploration, participants engage with futures research methods while cultivating a deeper understanding of Black-centered futures.
Why World-Building Matters
Healthy & Healing: Alleviates anxiety about the unknown by envisioning new possibilities.
Empowering: Strengthens resilience and adaptability in the face of change.
Educationally Playful: Offers a dynamic, engaging way to learn foresight tools and enhance futures literacy.
Co-creative: Sparks collaboration and connection through imaginative team exercises.
Experience the power of imagination as a tool for building just and thriving futures.
FAQs
What is a world-build?
World-building is a process of collectively imagining an immersive fictional universe in detail.
What is an afrofuture world-build?
Afrofuture world-building imagines justice-oriented systems that encourage societal health and healing for multi-generational joy.
Areas of focus are myth-making, systems thinking, spiritual reclamation, and innovation exploration
What is the afrofuture?
The afrofuture is non-linear, intersectional, shape-shifting, and ancestral, centering the needs and dreams of Black people now and into the future.
Who is this for?
Afrofuture world-builds are beneficial for individuals who want to create a future-visioning practice, and for organizations whose projects impact racialized communities.