---
id: sfoc-worlds-garden-world
title: "Garden World"
primary_class: worlds
primary_domain: reality-ontology
secondary_domains: [technology-infrastructure, civilization-ecology]
material_modes: [science-fiction, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Garden World

> **the garden world wayfinder.** Garden World concentrates the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility into a place, environment, frontier, or constructed reality. Its value lies in examining world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim without exceeding the evidence layer.

## Origin

Rather than assign Garden World an impressive ancient pedigree, the record begins with a traceable fictional or speculative story lineage. It then asks which inheritances are demonstrated and which are interpretive. Because the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action, provenance work must state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

## What It Is

Garden World concentrates the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility into a place, environment, frontier, or constructed reality. Its value lies in examining world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim without exceeding the evidence layer. In the Oracle it is classified as Worlds & Places, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Historical comparison places Garden World beside its precursors without assuming identity. Similar motifs may reveal transmission, convergence, or only a useful analogy. At collective scale, the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility gathers identities around belonging, exclusion, migration, and shared place; this matters because a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** science-fiction
- **Evidence state:** fictional
- **Summary:** Garden World has a fictional literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** nasa-exoplanets, nasa-astrobiology

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** science-fiction, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Garden World; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** nasa-exoplanets, nasa-astrobiology

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Garden World as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Garden World concentrates the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility into a place, environment, frontier, or constructed reality. Its value lies in examining world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim without exceeding the evidence layer.
- **Archetype:** the garden world wayfinder
- **Gift:** translate the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility into a bounded practice of observation and accountable response.
- **Shadow:** turning a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question into inevitability instead of a condition open to response.
- **Guidance:** Compare the story of Garden World with the system carrying it. Trace one dependency from the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility to consequence. Use this guidance where the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action; keep visible that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.
- **Healing / integration:** Find the earliest source and newest remix of Garden World. Mark what changed in vocabulary, audience, evidence, and political effect. Review the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, remembering that the card sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.
- **Question:** Who gains agency through the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility, who carries risk, and who can revise the arrangement? Answer by testing how the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action against world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Garden World offers a rehearsal for meeting the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility. The rehearsal is complete when the person can choose a grounded response rather than merely repeat the script. A grounded check for the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility is to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, especially where the pattern sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.

### Social

Around Garden World, social proof can become support or substitute for evidence. Separate the value of community from the truth status of every shared claim. In shared life, the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility gathers identities around belonging, exclusion, migration, and shared place. Test that specific the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility pattern by asking people to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Spiritual

the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility may be held as mystery through Garden World. Mystery remains open; it does not require an enemy, hierarchy, or exemption from care. In symbolic practice, the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility acts as sanctuary, exile, underworld, promised land, or threshold; keep in view that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

### Technological

The technological question is who gets capability without inheriting equal risk. State what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope. When the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility becomes a capability, it depends on infrastructure for access, survival, sensing, and maintenance. Verify the implementation of the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility by asking participants to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Political

Where Garden World promises order, ask whose uncertainty is being reduced and whose freedom is being converted into someone else’s assurance. When the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility becomes governance, it makes borders, jurisdiction, ownership, and environmental burden visible. Make authority over the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility answerable by requiring decision-makers to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Upright, Garden World makes hidden structure visible without declaring every unknown solved. Act on what is clear and protect what remains open. The capacity within the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility is strongest when the model can be used without being mistaken for the whole of reality, even as the pattern sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.
- **Shadow state:** Watch for turning a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question into inevitability instead of a condition open to response. The remedy is not ridicule, but a safer distinction among observation, interpretation, need, and story. To keep the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility from escalating, state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, because the pattern sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.
- **Threshold state:** Garden World signals that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question. Look for the practical site where that tension sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action and produces consequence. Operationally, the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action; the reader should state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.
- **Practical move:** Find the earliest source and newest remix of Garden World. Mark what changed in vocabulary, audience, evidence, and political effect. Review the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, remembering that the card sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action.

## Game and Story Function

- setting
- route-node
- resource-environment

**Story seed:** A community organizes around Garden World, then discovers that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question. The decisive conflict is over repair after the pattern sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action, not possession. The world of the story must show how the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility sets the affordances, dangers, distances, and resources of action and why a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-worlds-company-town--sfoc-worlds-garden-world
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-worlds-earth--sfoc-worlds-garden-world
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-worlds-garden-world--sfoc-worlds-generation-ship
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-forces-energy-harvest--sfoc-worlds-garden-world
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-systems-geofence--sfoc-worlds-garden-world
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-systems-limited-hangout--sfoc-worlds-garden-world
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-systems-walkability--sfoc-worlds-garden-world

## Visual Direction

Garden World visualized as the garden motif meeting a bounded environment of possibility: a navigable horizon, gateway, or terrain mark with clear depth and no scenic illustration clutter. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

No elevated safety flag. Keep claims and metaphor visibly distinct.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: nasa-exoplanets, nasa-astrobiology, sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Garden World? Which communities use Garden World differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Garden World?
