Pluriversal Storytelling: Design a Pluriversal Story for the Future

Every story carries a worldview. Our current dominant ones, from the stories told in news, boardrooms, policy papers, and brand campaigns, are shaped by colonial power and continue to determine whose realities count, whose knowledge is trusted, and whose futures are imagined.

This exploration invites you on two things: to interrogate those patterns, and to provide guidance on creating a story and worldview that's rooted in care, hope, reciprocity and relationality.

In the first half, we unpack the colonial history of storytelling and learn to identify them in everyday communication. We ask: who defines reality here? Who is missing? Who benefits?

In the second half, we turn toward pluriversality: the idea that many worlds can coexist, that no single story has the right to represent everyone, and that futures worth living in must be imagined from many directions at once.

Drawing on decolonial thought and narrative design, you will develop your own pluriversal story: a piece of communication, fiction, or narrative that opens rather than closes possibility, rooted in your own epistemology.

• Reflect on how dominant narratives inherited colonial structures of power
• Identify and challenge the dominant storytelling patterns
• Learn tools and frameworks to rewrite narratives
• Explore pluriversal frameworks as an alternative
• Design a story that centres multiple epistemologies and worldviews
• Build accountability, reciprocity and care into the act of storytelling itself

Change starts with the stories we choose to tell, the people we centre, and the way we tell them. Every story that goes untold is a future that goes unimagined, and pluriversal storytelling guides you in reclaiming that imaginative territory.

This course is designed for:

• Communications professionals seeking a critical lens on narrative and power
• Journalists and content creators who want to decolonise their practice
• Writers, storytellers, and designers working on narrative change or systemic transformation
• Anyone drawn to worldbuilding, speculative fiction, or pluriversal futures as an imagination praxis