• World-Building a More Sustainable Work Environment with Morgan Harper Nichols

  • Sep 21 2023
  • Length: 29 mins
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World-Building a More Sustainable Work Environment with Morgan Harper Nichols

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  • Artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols is a world-builder. She says, "Worldbuilding, for me, [is] a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive." What is world-building? It's the process of creating secondary, fictional worlds. There's world-building in all sorts of fiction—but especially science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy.

    And world-building as a practice—a necessary imagination—can be a tool for mapping a better work environment, too.

    Footnotes:

    • Find out more about Morgan Harper Nichols on Substack, her website, and Instagram.
    • Read the piece that inspired this conversation.
    • The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
    • N.K. Jemisin on world-building on Wired and LitHub
    • To Write Love On Her Arms
    • "What is capitalist realism?" by Tara McMullin, featuring Iggy Perillo


    Every episode of What Works is also shared as an essay at whatworks.fyi—become a free subscriber to get weekly posts delivered to your inbox or upgrade to a premium subscription for access to bonus content and quarterly workshops for just $7 per month!


    All of the books I mention in this series are in the Strange New Work Bookshop list.

    Strange New Work is a special series of What Works and hosted by Tara McMullin.
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