Anyone who knows me knows that I am constantly generating new ideas and projects, so much so that I need to rein myself back at least some of the time because it is so easy to overcommit my time. However, it is hard to turn the spigot off! So here is another idea that came out of reading my Writer’s Circle colleagues. We are all involved in world-building in various ways. Karen @ksv was mentioning she has a big job of world-building to do in her upcoming Embe project, which is what started my mind running along this track. David @symplexicated does extensive world-building in a whole range of different contexts. Tamar @Tamarbenur also does some interessting world-building in her writing efforts. Mary @marythaler of course does world-building in fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction, as do I. And that’s just our current writers’ group. There are, of course, other writers in the Cosmos fold - I’m thinking about Maia’s @Ariadne See You in Our Dreams, for example. And then recently we have started talking about developing courses within Cosmos. So I thought, what about pooling our energies and expertises and experiences and developing a course focussed on world-building that bridges our different approaches? Thoughts? I think world-building is a topic with broad interest and we have good skills for that here, IMHO.
I’m interested in this project. My availability during the day is spotty due to family needs, but I’m free most evenings.
David
I love this idea. World-building feels really central to the identity of what we’re doing here in Cosmos, truly.
Some of the friction I feel when discussing Cosmos’ aims in ordinary conversation is people expect the narrative arc to follow normative conventions, like: what is the business model, who are the customers, etc. But I don’t think we have a linear narrative arc, much less a hero’s journey here. Not to say we cannot have solid and compelling answers to all of those basic questions… but what isn’t intuitive (or easily communicated, in my experience) is this notion that Cosmos wants to enact and incubate new worlds… entirely new architectures of relationship, reciprocity, wisdom, expression… that would fundamentally alter the people involved and the world.
I don’t think everyone is perhaps “ready” for the idea (to say nothing of internalizing it) that we can and do shape change (Octavia Butler) at these levels… and that even the scripts we follow and the community codes we abide by could be radically different. Nor are most people probably ready for the work involved to reorient, re-pattern, re-skill, and reach for these more intelligent and holistic worlds.
However, I’m hoping that in a time when the supposedly static and sturdy “consensus reality” is melting down in every direction—that people realize their power and role to shape what happens next. Dynamic remaking is called for… of self, of systems, of society… and of our dreams.
Importantly, we need a sandbox, a grove… a sacred space that is something other than, and out of, the “ordinary world.” I’m glad Cosmos conceives of itself as a platform in the most platonic of senses: really, here to be co-determined, co-understood, and co-molded by our engagement with it.
A course like the one you propose could be that sandbox for its students. Where they recover their agency to interact and enact the worlds they dream of. I fully support the idea of developing this course and having it become a core course within Cosmos’ initial slate of course offerings.
I’m not sure what I could contribute besides this, my hearty endorsement. Just wanted to chime in with my “yes, yes, YES!” 
I would be interested in participating in this — perhaps different writers could contribute modules on different subtopics? We might need an initial meeting to discuss what such a course should cover.
Having too many crazy- great ideas is a PROBLEM??
I wish I could particpate but can’t for many reasons, including technical. Keep on seeding worlds, I say!
Tried to reply to your post, C, but the robot bouncer would not let me. I will try again to quote you and then myself:
Dynamic remaking is called for… of self, of systems, of society… and of our dreams.
AND, I would say, Remaking evoked in and through our sleeping and waking Dreams! A high percentage of my poetry/fiction comes out of my night as well as my day dreaming.
(However, I do have a real financial and tech problem that soon won’t allow me on the platform to comment, let alone join any groups/courses. It seems the universe is always putting me in the position of representing those who can’t afford new computers/programs, et al. Letting you know this so that it won’t appear like dimplr disinterest in doing things on Cosmos! : )
“ The Dream already exists.. what you (we) are looking for
is the entrance…” Ariadne, from See You In Our Dreams
A terrific idea, Gennifrey. I am overcommitted myself through the end of May, and I’ll probably want to take much of June just to breathe, but after that I would be up for seeing what we could come up with as a group effort.
Thank you all ! 
Love the idea, comments and suggestions ! If my schedule and energy allow , I would like to take such a Cosmos course about world - building and be a participant in witnessing / sharing / envisioning/ cooperating within a guiding framework .