Explorers Guild
Role: Writer, Experience Designer
The Explorers Guild of San Francisco is a group of adventurers, artists, and, yes, explorers, whose travels around the world are always centered on the creation of immersive fiction. The Explorers Guild maintains many traditions that make it an exercise in world building. Each participant in every journey has a chance to add to the world’s lore.
The Guild has journeyed to many different destinations, including Yosemite, the Netherlands, Hawai‘i, and, of course, Bay Area parks and landmarks. Each journey is detailed and explained in a field guide, uniquely created for the destination. It includes factual information about the point of interest as well as a fictional story explaining its significance to the Explorers Guild.
A park in Ashland, OR can become the site of an accord between humanity and dragons, a hike through Castle Rock can become a search and rescue mission, and so much more.
My contributions to the Explorers Guild mostly revolve around world building, specifically establishing some of those stories detailed in the location-specific Field Guides. In more than a few instances, I created or helped create full-fledged, site-specific interactive immersive experiences as part of the Guild’s “Caravan Rally,” which sees Explorers on a long 24-hour road trip. Additionally, I’ve acted and performed in a variety of roles for these experiences.
