What is a Future Narrative in generative design and creative coding?

What is a Future Narrative?

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Definition

A Future Narrative is a narrative form characterized by features such as openness, indeterminacy, virtuality, and the inclusion of a variety of possible continuations of individual events[1]. It creates a space of possibilities in which events – influenced, for example, by characters’ decisions, actions, values, or motives – can branch out in different directions at specific junctures.

This narrative style, in which openness, indeterminacy and dependence on external influences are already inherent, offers an ideal analogy for the development of concepts with the possibilities of generative design, as both approaches are characterized by their rejection of linearity. In generative design, the nodes of future narratives are precisely those design decisions that are inscribed in the program by creative professionals and that later, in conjunction with the data influencing the program, lead to the unique expression of the form.

[1] Christoph Bode, Rainer Dietrich: Future Narratives. Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment, Berlin/Boston 2013, S. 1.

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