Worldseeding (MANIFESTO / INSTRUCTIONAL ART / SPECULATIVE FABULATION)

A RITUAL FOR WORLDSEEDING: ITERATION 1 (FEBRUARY 17TH, 2026)

Winter is careening towards the sun. She stretches her coiled vertebrae, readying herself for spring: the season of seeds.

As the lengthening mornings begin to thaw all that had frozen over in the colder months, and planets nestle into new corners of the sky, I ask myself, “what do I want to seed?”

What visions do I wish to fabulate?
What narratives, mythologies and dreams do I want to centre?
What possibility-spaces do I want to nurture?

The following ritual takes us through a process of “worldseeding” (the practice of planting frameworks, theories and concepts that contain the DNA of more liveable worlds).

NOTES ON WORLDSEEDING

1. Worldseeding is not about utopian speculation, but rather, about working in compost – in the messy, fertile decay of what-is.
2. Worldseeding recognises that what we plant will only germinate when tended to.
3. Worldseeding recognises that we are planting in already-seeded ground, into existing ecologies and inherited stories. We cannot seed without knowing the soil.
4. Worldseeding centres experimentation, and is no stranger to play. In fact, worldseeding requires play as much as praxis.
5. Worldseeds grow through relation—with soil, water, other seeds, pollinators, human and more-than-human kin.
6. Worldseeds are processes. There is no end goal, and it cannot be contained into a fixed paradigm or ideology. It is non-linear, cyclical and dialogical in nature.
7. Worldseeding emerges from a lineage of futurists, world-makers, and feminist thinkers who have long known that imagination is survival technology (e.g. Donna Haraway/Speculative Fabulation; Walidah Imarisha/Visionary Fiction; José Esteban Muñoz/Concrete Utopias; Saidiya Hartman/Critical Fabulation; Octavia Butler; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).




FEBRUARY 17TH, 2026. YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE. SOLAR ECLIPSE

Last night, I found myself drowning in a litany of rituals, each one promising boundless blessings and transformations of the transcendental kind.

Tarot readings for the Year of The Fire Horse.
Hundreds of them, yet each one edited with the same Kate Bush track for optimal algorithmic scattering.

A to-do list for The Solar Eclipse (and the New Moon), in the form of a 60 second reel.
Something about Neptune and Saturn.

All so urgent, so cosmic, so otherworldly yet also so…repetitive.
It’s strange, how auspicious moments can quickly become so diluted (and yet oversaturated) when flattened into content.
Everywhere and nowhere at once, the sacred turned to scroll-fodder.

There’s talk of a new world. There always is.
Stars, asteroids, and planets move across the skies, promising the dawn of a revolution.
As the cosmos move from one creature to the next, from wood to fire, we hope that something in the air will shift, righting all wrongs, ridding all evils, filling every crack with liquid gold.

Intentions are set, floors are mopped, and dust is swept out of the tightest corners of our lives.
We fold coins into dumplings and adorn ourselves in red and gold, anointing ourselves with markers of luck and prosperity, as we prepare for the pageantry of the should-be-blesseds.
I burn incense and light candles on full moons and new moons, smearing ash from Palo Santos on my cheeks as I get down on my calloused knees in prayer.

But we all know that the new world does not emerge from a single prayer.
If we want to usher in new worlds, then we must move away from relying on prayer alone, from temples to farms, from grandiose offerings to matters of dirt and grit.

So I'm sharing this here, a ritual, not for overnight transformation, but for the patient work of worldseeding.
I call it "worldseeding" because change is all about what and how we seed.

Worldseeding does not require the stars to be in prophetic alignment.
You will not miss some cosmic window if you do not do this today because you’ve got horrid cramps and a million emails to respond to. It is slow and gradual and non-linear. So, happy worldseeding.