5D is a group of designers, scientists, artists, and educators who talk about learning about seeing better stories
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What Is 5D?
5D: The Future of Immersive Design is a global community of multi-disciplinary creators that are fascinated by a shared pursuit of worldbuilding for the sake of generating new storytelling experiences. The process that is being developed is one that begins with the construction of a world. Before a specific linear narrative is laid down, a coherent, logic-driven, integrated world is created for that story to take place in. Complete with an ecosystem, a world of characters and some general governing laws, this place of fiction becomes the platform for stories to unfold.
5D practices what it preaches by creating a global narrative through a unique series of distributed events, extending and curating the discussion of the role of digital, immersive design across all narrative media at numerous international venues, year round. 5D is building worlds. 5D proposes the world’s first series of Digital Design Summits for an audience of media makers, students and practitioners, to address the new culture of narrative media in the digital and virtual production space.
As today’s digital technology blurs the boundaries between design, environment, and storytelling, 5D explores our common goal of shaping immersive experience through creative, collaborative world-building * across all narrative media, virtual or real. 5D is an evolutionary, interactive experience, based on community and a unique network, expanding and adapting within the shifting landscape of narrative media. The design process is no longer linear but evolutionary.
Since October 2008, 5D has brought a continuous bleeding-edge discussion in immersive design, transmedia narrative, and worldbuilding to over 5000 industry professionals and academics.
* What is Worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the new metaphor for the design and iteration process, creating and actualizing the story space in digital narrative media. It addresses the design thinking, the process, and the experience of creating new worlds for storytelling.
Worldbuilding expresses the full arc of design’s role through production:
- Inception – imagining and developing the world
- Prototyping – testing the story space and visualizing the world
- Manufacturing – building the world, real or virtual, for studio and capture
- Finishing – honing final resolution and the experience of the world.
Rather than following the traditional but, with the onset of virtual production, mostly redundant model of pre-production, production and post, worldbuilding respects the iterative, non-linear model that engages in a consistent increase of resolution beyond the point of the highest resolution of pure imagination, through lo-res prototyping to final resolution and the audience experience. At each step, the makers are engaged in an open, virtual yet still tangible collaboration within the world in creation. Starting from early development and the design of the production itself, Story, Character, Action, and Resolution evolve from idea to realization in the digital story space. And with a new approach to workflow that properly respects the multi disciplinary, multi dimensional creative space, core process protects the idea and shepherds it into sensible reality.
