What if happily ever after was not guaranteed?

Blockchain Fairy Tales is a collaborative World Building workshop where participants engage with the narrative potentials and social impact of AI and decentralized technology.

The project explores if there is a way to do the “slow work” necessary for both ecological crisis and ethical tech development. What are the affordances and constraints of AI and decentralized technologies? How do we leverage these to collectively co-create a more sustainable future?

Type of Project:

Collective Storytelling + Artificial Intelligence Powered + Fairytales

My Roles:

Narrative Designer, Producer, and presenter.

The workshop starts with a visualization exercise designed to surface the shared values of the group. Participants form teams and begin to co-create worlds through a special framework that mixes discursive and speculative design. Through a combination of prompts and collaborative art making, teams develop an artifact in a fairytale aesthetic. These artifacts could be objects, environments, creatures, and beyond.

The workshop and screening are powered by an open-source tool that enables groups of people to remix the web and make it performative in real-time. The tool enables video, audio, animated gifs and text to be layered over top of any website. In collaged tapestries, the participants watch their artifacts come alive on the big screen.

Blockchain Fairytales uses a Miro board as its backdrop which enables large scale collaboration.