# The CharliVerse

> The CharliVerse is a shared, evolving world of people, companies, fashion houses, technologies and stories, and the home of two practices, Carrados and Blind Ant.

**I create worlds to inhabit, where a thing happens.**

The CharliVerse is a shared, evolving world. It holds people, companies, fashion houses, technologies, products, places and histories. Some of it is entirely fictional. Some of it becomes real: websites, Blender models, films, research and publications.

It is a world, not a portfolio. Things happen here whether or not anyone announces them.

## Two practices

Two practices work inside the CharliVerse.

- [Carrados](https://carrados.com/) investigates. It publishes design non-fiction: real-world exploration of AI, accessibility and agentic systems, including reports from its correspondents dice, Lucy Love-Child and Madison McDonnell. It makes claims about reality, and it is accountable for them.
- [Blind Ant](https://blind-ant.com/) imagines. It publishes design fiction: speculative worlds, artworks, stories and fictional documents by Charlotte Joanne, and the story of how each one was made.

Carrados investigates the future. Blind Ant makes the future imaginable. The CharliVerse gives that future somewhere to happen.

## In the world

The CharliVerse is home to fashion houses such as [Iceberg Hosiery](https://charli.info/charlipedia/iceberg-hosiery/), [Seamiotics](https://charli.info/charlipedia/seamiotics/) (every seam means something) and [LULU TOM](https://charli.info/charlipedia/lulu-tom/), and to the people who move between its stories. Their records are kept in [CharliPedia](https://charli.info/charlipedia/), the memory of the CharliVerse.

## Charli-Jo

[Charli-Jo Tyrer](https://charli.info/charli-jo/) makes the CharliVerse. Their real-world work, including [training](https://charli.info/training/), lives here too, and is labelled as real.