Pluriversal Worlding: Design, Narratives, and Metaphors for Societal Transformation
Pluriversal Worlding: Design, Narratives, and Metaphors for Societal Transformation

Summary/Abstract: This essay examines the concept of pluriversality, which refers to the human powerto build worlds differently and envision different models for inhabiting the planet. The Pluriverse,‘a world where many worlds fit’, is a decolonial vision created by the Zapatista movementthat contrasts with the supposed universality of the Western Modern world. Our planet is stillhome to many ‘worlds’ that have resisted the cultural homogenization promoted by colonialismand imperialism. Pluriversality proposes a path for transformational world-building thatbegins with the belief that alternatives to capitalist modernity are possible. This essay investigatesthe relationship between the narratives and metaphors a society adopts and the kind ofworld we design. Pluriversality is focused on creating and nurturing new models of life andreweaving our reality, not on destroying the old. Recognizing and making visible and viablealternatives that enable healthier relationships with nature and each other, particularly theones created by Indigenous and marginalized communities and peoples of color, is at the coreof what pluriversality is about.

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