How do stories shape our understanding of reality? What holds a familiar narrative in place โ and what happens when it begins to unravel? EpicEdgeLab develops innovative methodologies that deploy storytelling as a primary research tool. Through critical inquiry, creative experimentation, and speculative storytelling, the lab explores how we make meaning and what new possibilities emerge when we destabilise the stories we live by.
Narravity – The Gravity of Meaning
Stories have their own momentum. They unfold in unexpected, often stubborn ways, revealing connections and meanings we never planned. Like gravity shaping a solar system, narratives draw experiences, memories, emotions, and imagination into meaningful structures. From personal memories to historical narratives, institutional accounts, and fast-moving memes, stories shape what feels meaningful, believable, or possible.
How can we work with this pull? The foundation of all approaches lies in five movements: perception, reflection, collapse, speculation, and shift. Through them, the lab explores how meaning forms, holds, unravels, and shifts. Creative exercises invite you to trace connections, unsettle established interpretations, compose alternative scenarios, and bring new insights into lived experience.
An evolving collection of publications, workshops, and toolboxes puts this approach into practice, drawing on narrative theory, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and โ above all โ 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.
