ABSTRACT
In Spanish, Mira translates as “sight” or “view.” Mira also relates to its English sound-alike word, “mirror.” A world refers to a bound space and ecosystem. In its broadest sense, a MIRAWORLD is a creative space and ecosystem connected through a diverse collective vision or methods for seeing that reflect the real world. MIRAWORLD offers an experimental approach to developing an emergent transmedia world bound together and generated based on a theme from science, rather than being based upon a shared narrative story world. Systems design theory often draws from preexisting models in the natural world, which can be similarly useful for transmedia. For MIRAWORLD, the immortal jellyfish’s unique and remarkable lifecycle acts as an apt and poetic metaphor for the cyclical and morphing quality of a transmedia ecosystem and the creative development process itself as it gestates and takes form across varying media.
