The Importance of the Stories Behind the Work

This is the final part (4 of 4) of our series covering features of the formal collective membership we just announced.

At Baukunst, our mission as a collective is to advance the art of building. Storytelling is an important part of that pursuit. We document the magic early days of company building: origin stories, environments, founding teams, work in progress. By sharing what’s working and what isn’t, we collectively raise our craft. We can celebrate success and support each other when things don’t work out as planned.

This week, we launched a new digital home for these stories on our website. We’ve developed an experimental, interactive format for capturing both narrative and artifacts.

We’ll be publishing stories from the collective under a regularly rotating theme. You can explore our first theme World Building now, and we’ll be launching a new theme roughly each quarter. Through the stories, we hope to give a behind the scenes look at what’s happening in the collective and let you get to know the teams behind the companies.

A few recommended stories you can jump into:

• Raul Guiterrez’s talk on Ancestry, La Luche Libre & AI sharing experiences with intentional image making with generative AI. This is a talk he gave back at the Baukunst Creative Technologist Conference in Fall 2022 and includes glimpses of concepts foundational to the portfolio company Picture Studio that he went on to found.
• Reggie James and Eugene Angelo’s talk This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director calling for more vision in our shared imagined future.
• Bridging the Gap Between Industrial Manufacturing and the Regenerative Future with collective members Baillie and Lauryn exploring design-forward yet practical solutions to the climate crisis.

You can also check out an archive of past gatherings and collaborations as well as a fully visual archive that serves as non-linear jumping off point into stories.