Institute for Manufactured Futures
@ifmf.bsky.social
manufactured-futures.com
A storytelling enterprise. Announcements posted here, all info on the website.
A storytelling enterprise. Announcements posted here, all info on the website.
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A new tabletop RPG actual play podcast featuring Salvage Union has just launched!
www.rascal.news/235-bloom-la...
www.rascal.news/235-bloom-la...
235 bloom: Two Childhood Friends Tell the Future of their Hometown through Actual Play. Oh, and there's Mecha.
A new actual play podcast looks at a real Midwest city in the year 2089, showcasing a mix of indie TTRPG darlings and underdogs, with support from local artists and culture workers.
www.rascal.news
May 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM
A new tabletop RPG actual play podcast featuring Salvage Union has just launched!
www.rascal.news/235-bloom-la...
www.rascal.news/235-bloom-la...
Thrilled to see this. We need more and more stories envisioning more and more liberated futures. Check it out!
And while the next Canopy Archive project isn't a fit for this, it is deeply inspired by a chapter in @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com's book - stay tuned later this year!
And while the next Canopy Archive project isn't a fit for this, it is deeply inspired by a chapter in @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com's book - stay tuned later this year!
Read the stories, pitch your ideas, make a donation, talk to your comrades about Project 2052.
Join us in the creation of a liberated future! (5/5)
Join us in the creation of a liberated future! (5/5)
Project 2052 (Everything for Everyone) — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
www.commonnotions.org
May 24, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Thrilled to see this. We need more and more stories envisioning more and more liberated futures. Check it out!
And while the next Canopy Archive project isn't a fit for this, it is deeply inspired by a chapter in @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com's book - stay tuned later this year!
And while the next Canopy Archive project isn't a fit for this, it is deeply inspired by a chapter in @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com's book - stay tuned later this year!
Reposted by Institute for Manufactured Futures
This is so cool! Check it out and listen for Dog Eat Dog as part of the world building!
'Canopy Archive: 235 bloom' is out now! Episodes 1-3 available on all major podcast platforms. Episodes 4-16 release throughout the day tomorrow, May 15, 2026.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
May 23, 2026 at 4:47 PM
This is so cool! Check it out and listen for Dog Eat Dog as part of the world building!
Our collab with DSM&D on 235 bloom (and upcoming content for Canopy Archive!) has us thinking more about how games tell stories. Stumbled upon this keynote by @meghna.bsky.social (narrative designer on the videogame Sable, among others) from a few years ago. It's enlightening!: tinyurl.com/5ykdzbcb
White Protagonism and Imperial Pleasures in Game Design #DIGRA21
So is it even possible to make a video game that resists capitalism-colonialism?
tinyurl.com
May 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Our collab with DSM&D on 235 bloom (and upcoming content for Canopy Archive!) has us thinking more about how games tell stories. Stumbled upon this keynote by @meghna.bsky.social (narrative designer on the videogame Sable, among others) from a few years ago. It's enlightening!: tinyurl.com/5ykdzbcb
Reposted by Institute for Manufactured Futures
Some of these episodes run on my game ECOPUNK! And others on lots of other cool systems! Incredible! Tune in!
'Canopy Archive: 235 bloom' is out now! Episodes 1-3 available on all major podcast platforms. Episodes 4-16 release throughout the day tomorrow, May 15, 2026.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
May 15, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Some of these episodes run on my game ECOPUNK! And others on lots of other cool systems! Incredible! Tune in!
'Canopy Archive: 235 bloom' is out now! Episodes 1-3 available on all major podcast platforms. Episodes 4-16 release throughout the day tomorrow, May 15, 2026.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
May 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
'Canopy Archive: 235 bloom' is out now! Episodes 1-3 available on all major podcast platforms. Episodes 4-16 release throughout the day tomorrow, May 15, 2026.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha in 2089 Des Moines.
235 bloom - the premiere series of Canopy Archive, a collaboration between Des Moines & Dragons and The Institute for Manufactured Futures - is a work of speculative fiction taking place in Des Moines, Iowa, in the year 2089.
Come celebrate the launch of something new with us!
@therookroom.com
Come celebrate the launch of something new with us!
@therookroom.com
May 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
235 bloom - the premiere series of Canopy Archive, a collaboration between Des Moines & Dragons and The Institute for Manufactured Futures - is a work of speculative fiction taking place in Des Moines, Iowa, in the year 2089.
Come celebrate the launch of something new with us!
@therookroom.com
Come celebrate the launch of something new with us!
@therookroom.com
