worlding
Creating immersive universes
Worlding is the act of constructing or inhabiting a world—building the coherent reality of a fictional setting, or more philosophically, the ongoing process by which experience shapes itself into a meaningful whole.
In creative contexts, worlding describes the craft of making imagined places feel lived-in: The novel's worlding is meticulous, down to regional dialects and trade routes.
In phenomenology and speculative thought, it names how beings actively participate in generating the worlds they occupy.
Study of subjective experience
- HeideggerExistential ontology's founder
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- dwellingPlace of residence
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
meaning-making · existence · embodiment · perception · interpretation · hermeneutics
Study of universal structure
- universeComplete system or domain
- loreTraditional knowledge transmitted orally
- backstoryCharacter's past narrative
- settingContext of events
realm · dimension · counterfactual · scenario · imaginary · hypothetical · possibility · extrapolation
Recounting events aloud
- fictionImagined narrative work
- narrativeAccount of events
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- charactersPersons in a narrative
mythology · tale · fable · genre · protagonist · antagonist · arc · saga
Imitation of real processes
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- cyberspaceVirtual electronic network environment
- metaverseShared immersive digital universe
- sandboxEnclosed play area
avatar · environment · rendering · engine · interactive · immersive · VR · augmented-reality
Making something exist
- constructionProcess of building something
- cartographyCreating geographic representations
- geographyStudy of places
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
civilization · culture · infrastructure · architecture · conlang · demographics · flora · fauna
phenomenology
Study of subjective experience
- HeideggerExistential ontology's founder
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- dwellingPlace of residence
horizon · meaning-making · existence · embodiment · perception · interpretation · hermeneutics
cosmology
Study of universal structure
- universeComplete system or domain
- loreTraditional knowledge transmitted orally
- backstoryCharacter's past narrative
setting · realm · dimension · counterfactual · scenario · imaginary · hypothetical · possibility · extrapolation · conjecture
storytelling
Recounting events aloud
characters · mythology · tale · fable · genre · protagonist · antagonist · arc · saga · epic
simulation
Imitation of real processes
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- cyberspaceVirtual electronic network environment
- metaverseShared immersive digital universe
sandbox · avatar · environment · rendering · engine · interactive · immersive · VR · augmented-reality
creation
Making something exist
- constructionProcess of building something
- cartographyCreating geographic representations
- geographyStudy of places
ecosystem · civilization · culture · infrastructure · architecture · conlang · demographics · flora · fauna · taxonomy
worldingdestruction
Act of completely ruining
annihilation · demolition · erasure · negation · dissolution
world, worldly, otherworldly, underworld, worldliness, subworld, worldling