Feel free to use these questions to guide your future imaginings and further develop your story-world

Foundational questions

•  Who uses the object? Can you see yourself using the object? How and in what context?
  • What concerns do these scenarios provoke? What other applications can you imagine?
  • Do you have any access concerns? How do these alter the implication of the object?
• Who owns the object?
  • Private corporations, institutions, individuals?
• How do you access the object?
  • Is access restricted to certain people?
  • What happens if you have it or don’t have it?
  • Who gets to decide who has access to this object?
  • Are there certain required conditions to access the object (i.e. citizenship, age, gender)?
  • Is there a cost? Under what circumstances would someone pay more or less?
• Who is producing the object?
  • Who is paying for the production of the object?
  • Who is creating/manufacturing the object?
  • Who is responsible for maintaining and repairing the object?
  • What happens if the object breaks?
• What are the risks involved with the object?
• Are there any subversive uses or experiences of the object? Would there be knockoffs?

Further questions

• What are the relationships between individuals and community through/due to this object?
• What does the physical space of the [terrain card] look like?
• What happens if the required conditions for the object change?
• Is there potential for people to be exploited?
• What are the land-based implications of this production?
• Where are materials for the object sourced from?
• What happens with waste/how do you dispose of the object?
• What counts as legitimate [mood]?
• Who experiences the [mood]? Who might feel differently? Are there consequences if you don’t feel [mood]?
• How does the object relate to a practice of decolonization?
• How does this object relate to the arc (growth, transform, discipline, collapse)?
  • What is the governance structure of this system? What would be a disruption to this system?