You found it. Nicely done.

Noticing what most people walk right past is the whole game here, so consider this your first signal.

If you landed on this page because you are enrolled in (or circling) the Tufts ExCollege fall course EXP-0002-F: Designing the Future: Worldbuilding & Time Travel, welcome. You are already doing the work.

Here is your prologue assignment. Entirely optional, entirely worth it: watch Dark on Netflix.

Three seasons, German with subtitles, and arguably the most rigorously built speculative world ever put on screen. It starts with a small German town, a string of disappearances, and the slow realization that the present is haunted by forces no one can quite see yet. It is also a quiet masterclass in everything we spend the semester chasing: worldbuilding that never once breaks its own rules, causal loops, and the question of what we owe the people who come after us.

Start here: netflix.com/title/80100172

See you in the studio.