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Worldbuilding Climate Scenario Futures in FLORA ai

Dung Beetle

AI x Design (in human form)

Design immersive worlds through fluid, generative thinking in FLORA ai

FLORA ai just works differently; allowing you to design, explore and imagine in organic relationships.

You'll move fluidly between text, image, and video in ways that feel exploratory, imaginative, and experiential.

This course will teach you how to design, build, explore and think in that space. It's beautiful stuff, and I can't wait to share it with you.

What you’ll learn

You’ll be able to design coherent, multi-modal worlds inside FLORA ai, and build structured, immersive scenarios.

  • Confidence within FLORA ai to design connected, evolving creative deliverables.

  • Build a clear scenario framework in FLORA ai that guides all visual and narrative outputs.

  • Generate consistent places, characters, and environmental conditions across generations.

  • Establish a defined aesthetic language to maintain style and atmosphere.

  • Communicate your world scenarios clearly to a professional or creative audience.

Learn directly from Dung

Dung Beetle

Dung Beetle

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Rolls chaos into coherent climate worlds. Dung Beetle in human form.

Who this course is for

  • Designers and creative strategists: You are experimenting with AI, but your outputs feel fragmented.

  • Futures thinkers and climate practitioners: You want more experiential ways to explore complex climate scenarios.
  • Curious AI explorers: You are already using generative tools and want to move beyond basic prompting.

What's included

Dung Beetle

Live sessions

Learn directly from Dung Beetle in a real-time, interactive format.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Mar 4—Mar 8

    Mar

    4

    Systems Thinking in FLORA ai

    Wed 3/46:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Mar 9—Mar 15

    Mar

    11

    Designing Worlds in FLORA ai

    Wed 3/116:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

1 hr

    • Wed, Mar 4

      6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Wed, Mar 11

      6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Wed, Mar 18

      6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Wed, Mar 25

      6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

More-than-human futures

Design worlds where rivers, forests, soil systems, pollinators, or entire ecosystems shape governance and daily life. Explore ecological agency, rights of nature, interspecies councils, and relational forms of power.

Governance futures

Reimagine how institutions operate under climate pressure. Design new constitutional models, ownership structures, civic infrastructures, and decision systems that respond to instability and long-term risk.

Urban adaptation futures

Build climate-stressed cities that must redesign heat management, water systems, housing, mobility, and social cohesion. Explore how neighbourhoods evolve under constraint, inequality, and resilience planning.

Choose Your Own Adventure: Four Learning Paths

Create worlds shaped by rising seas, erosion, migration, and marine economies. Design floating settlements, coastal retreat strategies, offshore infrastructure, and new relationships to oceanic life.

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