WHERE THEORY MEETS PRAXIS:

A school for black feminist worldbuilding and creative actualization.

Seeda School offers a monthly incubator for community accountability, designing a creative ecosystem, and building a life that centers and supports your writing practice as non-negotiable.

The Laboratory of Erotic Engineering

A Creative Homecoming

Return to your creative practice, return to your creative spirit, return to yourself.

What we do inside Seeda School...

Desire

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Cultivate the nervous system level capacity to feel worthy of your deepest desires and learn to trust the financial viability of your creative practice. We remember our pleasure is not a safety hazard or a threat to our survival.

Practice

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After, during, while cultivating a somatic sense of safety, worthiness and trust in your desire, you will establish a public creative practice through publishing newsletters and building your email list. Nurture your audience while nurturing your desire.

Resource

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Now that you have an active public practice and an engaged email list, we will support you in developing and marketing an income generating offer to fund your creative practice rooted in your desire.

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Why World Building?

We know this place as the North Carolina Black River, they know it as Cykofa. A parallel universe suspended among past and future — where cornrows are cryptography keys, data farms are data forests, the weaving loom is a computer, cotton is encoded with freedom dreams, and chain link fencing from demolished prisons is used as architectural membrane woven with plant life. In Cykofa the trees have learned to communicate using the data Cykofians have encoded in the tree’s DNA and tree ring memory.

In 2021, Seeda School founder Ayana Zaire Cotton developed and self-published Cykofa: The Seeda Origin Story, an experimental speculative fiction novella told through the journal entries of a non-binary biotechnologist named Seeda and the found data within an ancient, 2,600+ year-old bald cypress tree named Cy. The people of Cykofa have traditionally hosted their data within the DNA of the trees, but what happens when Seeda discovers a rip in the dendrochronological memory, exposing select datasets from our world?

Leveraging over a decade's worth of experience visioning and releasing interdisciplinary projects, today Ayana enjoys a transdisciplinary practice where she's able to braid opportunities in form of fine art and biotechnology residencies, software engineering fellowships, guest lecturing on design, invitations to be a keynote listener at creative conferences, acceptance into artist focused business incubator, institutionally sponsored writing retreats and more by using the framework of world building to weave and clearly communicate her constellation of skills, curiosities and offers.