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Worldbuilding Professional Portfolio Main Menu Worldbuilding Design Portfolio Designer Laura works as a designer with spatial design, sound, interactive UI/UX, animation, film, and production. Facilitator Worldbuilders need to collaboratively work in teams, helping lead the project toward aims and create an environment for productive interactions. Research + Theory Research and theory are integral aspects of the worldbuilding process. Qualifying Exam Portfolio A brief guide to this portfolio project, with more focused media links.

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The worldbuilding process includes research, community-based workshops, expert interviews, prototyping, systems research, narrative development, and working to find the ideal outputs for the final expressions of the world (e.g., films, books, immersive experiences, etc.). Of these, the most significant aspect for me has been the workshop process. I have:

participated in worldbuilding workshops that contributed to the robust world of Rilao at the Berlinale Film Festival as a Production Designer Talent;
led workshops with high school students during our Lagos 2036 Class worldbuild;
developed our Spaceship Earth program for high school students in collaboration with the Buckminster Fuller Institute;
helped plan and participated in a Minority Report-themed worldbuild at Arizona State University;
and designed and led a worldbuilding workshop on autobiographical identity and crisis (financial, physical, or emotional) at CounterPlay ‘16 in Denmark.

Most recently, I helped kickstart and am now co-leading a worldbuilding collaboration between the World Building Media Lab and the Bridge@USC, an interdisciplinary project at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences dedicated to connecting the sciences and the arts. To date, this project has included workshops with up to 40 participants from the arts and sciences working together to envision the world inside a human cell, and then develop experiences enabling scientists and students to step inside of it. I am also working with Marientina Gotsis on a Research Collaboration Fund application to organize worldbuilding workshops on how future sensory technologies may impact the patient experience in hospitals and doctor’s offices.