Social Design Fiction

The Making of a People

The Colorful Prince

The Colorful Prince is a story about people asking a basic but difficult question:

What would life be and look like if we had the freedom to discover who we really are — and then build our communities around what we discovered?

Roger enters the Colorful Prince looking for an answer. He has spent much of his life following familiar paths, but begins to wonder whether there might be another way to live. Instead of simply believing what others tell him, he decides that understanding must come through experience. That journey leads him toward the idea of self-ownership.

Self-ownership means discovering what gives your life meaning rather than automatically accepting the expectations handed to you by Family, religion, culture, or society. The Colorful Prince calls this discovering your inner genius—the particular creativity and potential within each person.

But discovering yourself does not mean separating yourself from everyone else. Quite the opposite.

The Colorful Prince imagines people bringing together their different abilities, personalities, experiences, desires, ages, cultures, and ways of thinking. Difference becomes valuable because people can complement one another. The community grows through what the Prince calls the Relatedness of Neighbors. This creates a different idea of Family.

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