Canopy Archive: 235 bloom
Claim This Podcastby the Institute for Manufactured Futures x Des Moines & Dragons
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<p>In 2089 Des Moines, Iowa, along the “2-3-5”, a highway-turned-metro-transit hub, communities are in an ideological struggle to make real their own visions for the future. This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha. The federal government has become mostly irrelevant to people's everyday lives, as communities have been largely self-sufficient for decades. Through a handful of independently-produced roleplaying games, 235 bloom explores the invasion of the Des Moines metro by plutocratic ideologues, following the stories of Emil, an Emergency Services Cooperative worker who is in over his head in the Civil Resistance, and Baz, a hotshot BE-TLE pilot whose mercenary cooperative has returned him to his childhood home. 235 bloom also features seven guests to help scaffold the future in which this story takes place, over three prologue episodes.</p><p>235 bloom - the premiere series of Canopy Archive, a collaboration between <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.desmoinesanddragons.com/">Des Moines & Dragons</a> and the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://manufactured-futures.com/">Institute for Manufactured Futures</a> - is a work of speculative fiction taking place in Des Moines, the traditional, ancestral, unceded land of the Báxoǰe, Sauk, and Meskwaki peoples, in the year 2089. The locations may be real, but any similarity to actual persons or their descendants is unintentional. Please be aware that this series deals with issues of paramilitary and other violence, including fasco-capitalism, colonialism and occupation, as well as natural disasters in a real city in the future lifetime of current generations. Please take care while listening.</p><p>Producers: Jordan Lee Thompson + Paul Privitera. Editor: Jordan Lee Thompson. Music: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://goatfoam.bandcamp.com/">Goatfoam</a> (Javier Lopez), Isac Lundholm, Tommy Ljungberg. Cover Art: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.maddyfuscoillustration.com/">Maddy Fusco</a>. Additional Voice Work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lipingvong.com/">LIPING VONG</a>.</p><p>Find the games we used to create this story:</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dicekapital.itch.io/ecopunk2044">ECOPUNK: 2044</a> by Liam Hevey</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leyline.press/collections/salvage-union">Salvage Union</a> by Panayiotis Lines and Aled Lawlor</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://everest-pipkin.com/games/ground.html">The Ground Itself</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://everest-pipkin.com/games/worldending">World Ending Game</a> by Everest Pipkin</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://salmonjumpsuit.itch.io/conquest-and-glory-expanded">Conquest & Glory (Expanded Edition)</a> by Kyle Serafin</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cmichpress.com/2025/06/10/new-game-series-art-system-games-for-expanded-play/">Dog Eat Dog</a> by Liam Liwanag Burke</p><p>Special Thanks: All our guests, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://therookroom.com/">The Rook Room</a>, Alex Walton, Oanh Vu, Ruben Vallejo Regalado, David Valentine, nouf saleh, H. LaVeau, Aydın Yaman, Alexander Anderson, Jeff Knopf, Nick Studer, Courtney Gunderson, Katie Privitera, the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.desmoinesanddragons.com/">Des Moines & Dragons</a> podcast collective, and everyone else whose conversations and stories informed the process behind 235 bloom.</p>
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May 15, 2026
16) Epilogue: "Of What Future Are These The Wild Early Days?"
<p>In the epilogue of 235 bloom we explore the aftermath of occupation with Everest Pipkin’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://everest-pipkin.com/games/worldending">World Ending Game.</a> Jordan and Paul create a montage of continuing stories for some of the characters we’ve met along this journey. We end with an invitation for you to contribute to a vision for this city’s future.</p><p></p><p>*The title of this episode is a quote from Kyle Tran Myhre’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://guante.info/enough/">Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough</a>, a book about two wandering poets on “a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers.” It’s truly worth your time and dollars, go pick up a copy.</p><p></p><p><strong>Content Warnings:</strong></p><ul><li>Depictions of war and military occupation</li><li>Discussions of trauma and loss</li><li>Scenes involving violence and destruction</li><li>Themes of political and corporate power struggles</li><li>References to death and memorials</li></ul><p></p><p>Produced by Paul Privitera and Jordan Lee Thompson.</p><p>Edited by Jordan Lee Thompson.</p><p>Music by Javier Lopez of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://goatfoam.bandcamp.com/">Goatfoam</a>.</p><p>Cover Art by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.maddyfuscoillustration.com/">Maddy Fusco</a>.</p><p>Voice over by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lipingvong.com/">LIPING VONG</a>.</p><p></p><p>235 bloom is a collaboration between Des Moines & Dragonsand The Institute for Manufactured Futures. It is a work of speculative fiction taking place in the year 2089. The locations may be real, but any similarity to actual persons or their descendants is unintentional.</p>
May 15, 2026
15) Bazil's Story: The Night Masquerade
<p>In the final episode of our game of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leyline.press/collections/salvage-union">Salvage Union</a>, Baz is left to piece together the fragile aftermath of conflict in a war-torn Des Moines. He works to square up with his past and decide on his future.</p><p></p><p>*The title of this episode is an homage to Nnedi Okorafor’s novella of the same name, the third installment of her Africanfuturist <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://nnedi.com/books/the-binti-series/">Binti trilogy</a>, about a young Himba woman navigating interstellar conflict and her own identity. It’s very good, you should read it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Content Warnings: </strong></p><ul><li>Violence and combat scenes</li><li>Injury and death references</li><li>Emotional distress and anxiety</li><li>Mention of war, ambush, and military operations</li><li>Descriptions of damaged buildings and post-disaster environments</li><li>References to trauma and nightmares</li></ul><p></p><p>Produced by Paul Privitera. Featuring Jordan Lee Thompson.</p><p>Edited by Jordan Lee Thompson.</p><p>Music by Tommy Ljungberg.</p><p>Cover Art by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.maddyfuscoillustration.com/">Maddy Fusco</a>.</p><p>Voice over by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lipingvong.com/">LIPING VONG</a>.</p><p></p><p>235 bloom is a collaboration between Des Moines & Dragonsand The Institute for Manufactured Futures. It is a work of speculative fiction taking place in the year 2089. The locations may be real, but any similarity to actual persons or their descendants is unintentional.</p>
May 15, 2026
14) Emil's Story: SEEDBOMB
<p>Emil closes the book on our game of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dicekapital.itch.io/ecopunk2044">ECOPUNK: 2044</a> as he traverses a city on the brink of open revolt. With tense confrontations at an armed checkpoint and urgently needed medical aid during a devastating storm, Emil finally learns just what he’s been carrying around this whole time.</p><p></p><p><strong>Content Warnings: </strong></p><ul><li>Torture and physical abuse</li><li>Injury and broken bones</li><li>Violence and gunfire</li><li>Occupation and military checkpoints</li><li>Medical emergencies and blood loss</li><li>Death and mourning</li><li>Intense weather events (storm, derecho)</li><li>Themes of resistance and conflict</li></ul><p></p><p>Produced by Jordan Lee Thompson. Featuring Paul Privitera.</p><p>Edited by Jordan Lee Thompson.</p><p>Music by Isac Lundholm.</p><p>Cover Art by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.maddyfuscoillustration.com/">Maddy Fusco</a>.</p><p>Voice over by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lipingvong.com/">LIPING VONG</a>, Alex Walton, Oanh Vu, Ruben Vallejo Regalado, David Valentine, nouf saleh, and H. LaVeau.</p><p></p><p>235 bloom is a collaboration between Des Moines & Dragonsand The Institute for Manufactured Futures. It is a work of speculative fiction taking place in the year 2089. The locations may be real, but any similarity to actual persons or their descendants is unintentional.</p>
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<p>In 2089 Des Moines, Iowa, along the “2-3-5”, a highway-turned-metro-transit hub, communities are in an ideological struggle to make real their own visions for the future. This is a land of suburban agri-jungles, community-scale 3D printers, and up-to-two-story-tall battery-powered mecha. The federal government has become mostly irrelevant to people's everyday lives, as communities have been largely self-sufficient for decades. Through a handful of independently-produced roleplaying games, 235 bloom explores the invasion of the Des Moines metro by plutocratic ideologues, following the stories of Emil, an Emergency Services Cooperative worker who is in over his head in the Civil Resistance, and Baz, a hotshot BE-TLE pilot whose mercenary cooperative has returned him to his childhood home. 235 bloom also features seven guests to help scaffold the future in which this story takes place, over three prologue episodes.</p><p>235 bloom - the premiere series of Canopy Archive, a collaboration between <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.desmoinesanddragons.com/">Des Moines & Dragons</a> and the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://manufactured-futures.com/">Institute for Manufactured Futures</a> - is a work of speculative fiction taking place in Des Moines, the traditional, ancestral, unceded land of the Báxoǰe, Sauk, and Meskwaki peoples, in the year 2089. The locations may be real, but any similarity to actual persons or their descendants is unintentional. Please be aware that this series deals with issues of paramilitary and other violence, including fasco-capitalism, colonialism and occupation, as well as natural disasters in a real city in the future lifetime of current generations. Please take care while listening.</p><p>Producers: Jordan Lee Thompson + Paul Privitera. Editor: Jordan Lee Thompson. Music: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://goatfoam.bandcamp.com/">Goatfoam</a> (Javier Lopez), Isac Lundholm, Tommy Ljungberg. Cover Art: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.maddyfuscoillustration.com/">Maddy Fusco</a>. Additional Voice Work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lipingvong.com/">LIPING VONG</a>.</p><p>Find the games we used to create this story:</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dicekapital.itch.io/ecopunk2044">ECOPUNK: 2044</a> by Liam Hevey</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leyline.press/collections/salvage-union">Salvage Union</a> by Panayiotis Lines and Aled Lawlor</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://everest-pipkin.com/games/ground.html">The Ground Itself</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://everest-pipkin.com/games/worldending">World Ending Game</a> by Everest Pipkin</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://salmonjumpsuit.itch.io/conquest-and-glory-expanded">Conquest & Glory (Expanded Edition)</a> by Kyle Serafin</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cmichpress.com/2025/06/10/new-game-series-art-system-games-for-expanded-play/">Dog Eat Dog</a> by Liam Liwanag Burke</p><p>Special Thanks: All our guests, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://therookroom.com/">The Rook Room</a>, Alex Walton, Oanh Vu, Ruben Vallejo Regalado, David Valentine, nouf saleh, H. LaVeau, Aydın Yaman, Alexander Anderson, Jeff Knopf, Nick Studer, Courtney Gunderson, Katie Privitera, the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.desmoinesanddragons.com/">Des Moines & Dragons</a> podcast collective, and everyone else whose conversations and stories informed the process behind 235 bloom.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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