Showing results for "World Building" in Arts & Entertainment

Learn more about the Earth and our environment, both physical and social, to help develop your fantasy setting.

Join award-winning audio drama makers Chris Gregory and Emily Inkpen for fortnightly conversations about world building with some of the best writers around, and find out how their worlds come to life.

The Red Mage follows human-centered designer Joshua Ian addressing wicked problems. Using the world-building methodology Joshua explores potential solutions to these wicked problems through game design, interaction design, and ethnography.

Building Vesser is the podcast where the team behind World of Vesser discuss worldbuilding, game design, art direction, and more! Listen as this wholly original narrative world is prepped for launch.

Join veteran multimedia producer/designer Steele Tyler Filipek as he helps veteran creators, newbies, and outsiders learn the process of story world creation. Using the same tools he has used for such clients as Microsoft, Sony Pictures, the Walt Disney Company, and Nickelodeon, your dear ol' professor will take you through a step-by-step process to understand the process of crafting narratives that can persist across years and thrive on multiple platforms.

We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the...

From the bestselling author of Skyscrapers, the behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world: One World Trade Center. The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history. Nearly every state in the nation, a dozen countries...

Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian country into a racial utopia. From ideal new cities to a scenic superhighway stretching from Berlin to northern Norway, plans to remake the country into a model “Aryan” society fired the imaginations of Hitler, his architect Albert Speer, and other Nazi leaders.