The Epic Edge Lab
The Epic Edge Lab develops storytelling-based research approaches to investigate critical and imaginative thinking, understand existing systems, foster innovation and make sense of the narrative chaos we live in.
Narravity – The Gravity of Meaning
Every writer knows that stories have their own momentum: they unfold in unexpected, often stubborn ways, revealing connections and meanings that were never planned in advance. Like gravity shaping a solar system, narratives exert an invisible pull – drawing experiences, memories, emotions, and imagination into meaningful structures. This pull operates in fiction as much as in the stories we live every day. Through it, everything we perceive becomes organised into inner stories and woven into a wider Narrative Web – the space where these stories interact, reinforce, resist, and reshape one another, and through which we experience and interpret reality, and ourselves as part of it. This gravitational pull of meaning is what this methodology calls Narravity.
Used in a creative lab, Narravity becomes a research tool: a way of exploring how stories guide perception and interpretation, how meaning is made and unmade, how speculative scenarios can be imagined, and how the underlying logic of the systems we live in – personal, cultural, institutional – can be brought into view and reworked. An evolving collection of publications, workshops, and toolboxes draws on narrative theory, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and – above all – the craft of creative writing.
Get in touch if you’re interested in expanding your perception, uncovering the hidden narrative logic of the status quo, or using fiction as a laboratory to probe possible futures and the systems that shape them.
