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In Making All Lobbies Liminal, one example of a mall that could be imagined and manifested was the virtual mall, building out a space in a virtual arena, where the barrier of entry is lower. With infinite oasis, the central premise revolved around a multitude of blogs, where each blog can not only cover different things, but can take shape as various forms.

Infinite Blocks brings the two ideas together, a regular build session with a group of people, imagining what a world being built together would look like. Think of it as a blog that one can walk in. Or as a virtual mall one can browse through.

Minecraft was the original game that people would build in, thanks to it's simple, but expansive building capabilities, but similar games like Terraria or even something in Roblox might fulfill the same idea while also adhering to the BDS call for boycott of Microsoft.

In these crafting games, people can work together to create the garden of their dreams, or they can create a pop-up exhibition of sculptures, or they could build a virtual library that houses poems and essays. The core idea is that even if the building is virtual, the work of shaping a world together can translate across mediums to reality. Planning a shared garden, or designating roles on a grand fountain project require teamwork, setting norms, and negotiating values in ways that can offer some guidance into how these things would play out in real life.

The construction of a virtual world with a group of people, not only offers a glimpse into what's possible, it is a sliver of that utopia in practice. It's the sketch, the blueprint, the process, the motivation, the gathering space for the IRL version to become a reality. And at the end of the day, even if you can't touch it, by building a virtual world together—a world is still built together.