Seed A World Retreat
Seed or deepen an interdisciplinary practice and release a creative offer through the framework of worldbuilding.
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Learn More About the Retreat
Join this 9 week program for creatives and get access to a course library of 9 classes, weekly office hours and a community of worldbuilders to help you get clarity on the story binding your ecosystem of skills, curiosities and passions together.
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Seed A World Framework
A worldbuilding framework for interdisciplinary creatives. Get clarity on what’s for sell and what’s sacred. The Seed A World Program is anchored by three essential worldbuilding tools: Imagination, Story and Platform.
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Story
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Seed A World Syllabus
Outlined in the syllabus are 9 weekly classes helping you get clarity on what’s for sell and what’s sacred in your practice and how to effectively communicate the interdisciplinary possibility brewing inside the world you’re building.
A magnificent learning adventure/voyage I am currently experiencing. Ayana and Seeda School are brilliant! If you would like to learn coding through the teachings of black feminism + do so with a lovely mentor, look no further.
Gloria-Sherryl François
*Testimonial is based on Seeda School's Software Engineering Program
Photo credit: Mallory Lowe
The Seed A World Retreat Session
Join us in class starting every Tuesday at 12:00-1:30pm EST and in office hour every Thursday at 12:00-1:00pm EST for 9 weeks. All recordings and worksheets are stored in course library.
What's included in the Seed A World Retreat?
Your wildness creates space for our collective imagination. Join us inside this creative retreat and get access to 9 modules, weekly office hours and a membership community of fellow worldbuilders.
Seeda School's Worldbuilder's Handbook
Seeda School's Course Library
9 Weekly Classes
9 Weekly Office Hours
Seeda School's Discord Community
This Retreat Is For You If...
- You have many different skills, curiosities and passions but aren't clear how they all might relate. Spoiler Alert: They absolutely do!
- You have trouble clearly communicating your interdisciplinary practice in residency/grant applications, on your website, to your community and to potential customers, clients and patrons.
- Somewhere along the line your creative practice became solely focused on generating revenue and you want to re-center your practice inside desire.
- You are interested in generating revenue inside your creative practice, but want to get clear on what's sacred and what's for sale.
- Your creative practice has been dormant for months or years and you want to return to it with renewed intention rooted in divine desire instead of fear.
A collection of excavated Cykofa Artifacts
What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying
"Seeda School is a refreshing learning experience that has solidly placed me at the convergence of multiple streams of time: it has affirmed the curiosity i’ve had since childhood when i was coding on MySpace, supported my present creative practices, and oriented me towards the expansive possibilities of (en)coding liberatory futures. Ayana has been a gracious, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic steward throughout the coaching program, which has made building these skills that much more fun and approachable. i glowingly recommend Seeda School!"
— Dkéama Alexis
"I began learning from Seeda School as a fan, observing the information passively through Instagram. My desire to learn coding, specifically HTML and CSS grew and I decided to enroll in the course. While the intersection of Black feminism and coding might feel out of place, this is the kind of work that allows us to imagine and co-create new futures, rather than following a prescriptive dominant narrative. I have loved working alongside Ayana. She is patient, kind, and diligent as a teacher and community leader. Since starting this program, I gained the confidence to redesign my company's website and discover/develop new methods of data collection for my research. It's completely recontextualized my work, which involves recovering the histories of Black women. I was recently admitted to a graduate program in Design (in part I'm sure) to the creative and meticulous work I've developed at Seeda School."
— Cierra Peters
"I originally signed up with Seeda School after doing a bit of dabbling in freeCodeCamp JavaScript coursework on my own. After being a big fan of the ideas shared within the newsletters, I attended a taster workshop. I am pleased I ultimately decided to sign up for the Full Stack Software Engineering Portfolio Program because I want to learn within this environment dedicated to a vision to "collectively imagination and build technologies that support and expand a culture of care." I wholeheartedly agree that this is cultivated through a Black feminist Internet. I appreciate the praxis of care in teaching, the assignments interwoven with theory, and the wrap-around support provided during office hours and instructional videos. If, as Audre Lorde famously said, "the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house," Seeda School is a beautiful, thoughtful, welcoming place to be learning and creating something otherwise and elsewhere."
— Dana Aleshire
*Testimonials are based on Seeda School's Software Engineering Program
Meet The Artist and Teacher Behind Seeda School
Hi! I'm happy you're here. Allow me to introduce myself, I am a transdisciplinary artist and co-author of the non-linear, speculative fiction novella Cykofa: The Seeda Origin Story written during my Ginkgo Bioworks residency in collaboration with creative writing software I engineered at the Recurse Center. I am also the founder of Seeda School, which hosts a digital retreat for worldbuilders with a desire to seed or return to an interdisciplinary practice.
Leveraging over a decade's worth of experience visioning and releasing interdisciplinary projects, today I enjoy a transdisciplinary practice where I'm able to braid opportunities in form of fine art and biotechnology residencies, software engineering fellowships, guest lecturing on design, invitations to creative conferences, acceptance into artist focused business incubator, institutionally sponsored writing retreats and more by using the framework of worldbuilding to weave and clearly communicate my constellation of skills and curiosities.
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