The Epic Edge Lab

Decoding Meaning
through
Narrative Thinking

The Epic Edge Lab explores storytelling as a research tool for makers and creative minds. Step into narrative thinking and see your work – and the world – in a new light.

An evolving collection of Epic publications, workshops, and toolboxes draws inspiration from philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and, above all, creative writing.

Learn how to expand your perception, deal with uncertainty, decode the internal logic of the status quo, or use fiction as a laboratory to probe potential futures and systemic dynamics. In narrative thinking complexity is your playground.


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Welcome to the Epic Edge

You are probably sitting somewhere right now, or perhaps you are lying on your sofa, your eyes tracing these words. Pause for a moment and listen to your thoughts. What sentences are rising in your mind?

Are you replaying a conversation from today? Turning over a message you just read, or a task waiting to be done? Maybe a smell drifts through the room, carrying you back to your grandparents’ house. Or perhaps your mind has already wandered to tonight: a quiet dinner, or an evening with someone special.

Give your thoughts some space. Notice the subtle shifts, the connections forming, the echoes of memory and imagination. Your brain is your most essential instrument in this Fiction Field Lab – and it is already highly trained in narrative thinking, though often unrecognized. Trust its intuition and creative abilities. Follow its suggestions. Watch how meaning emerges, sometimes in surprising, tangled ways.

Stories are woven so deeply into our lives that we rarely notice how thoroughly they shape our thinking, our choices, even our sense of being. Whether small and fragmentary or epic and existential, they connect past, present, and imagined futures, helping us find our place in society. Narrative thinking enables us to form an identity, understand the past and to imagine the future.

Yet most of us are unaware of this natural capacity of our narrating brain, or of how we might use it to navigate the complex, confusing systems of reality.

Publications
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New research, publicatons and methodologies that will be published soon:

The Fiction Field Lab

Immersivity

Narrative Gravity

The Fiction Field Lab

The Fiction Field Lab provides researchers with a systematic yet flexible approach to narrative experimentation in interaction with a place. It enables a deeper sensitivity to complexity, fosters multivocal and multi-temporal thinking, and supports the development of new conceptual insights through creative, embodied, and imaginative inquiry.

Narrative Gravity – work in progess

Narrative gravity is the invisible force that keeps certain ideas orbiting at the center of our thinking. It organizes complexity and creates a natural sense of coherence – of causality, meaning, and narrative arcs. On a broader level, it shapes the very order of all things.

Immersivity – work in progress

Immersivity refers to the quality of an experience that fully absorbs a person’s attention and senses, making them feel inside a story, environment, or system. High immersivity reduces the distance between the observer and what is being observed, creating a sense of presence, engagement, and emotional or cognitive involvement.

About the Epic Edge Lab

The Epic Edge Lab is an initiative by writer and researcher Meike Eggers.

For more than three decades, Meike has worked in the creative industry, with storytelling at the core of her practice. She writes novels – including the sci-fi trilogy Cybionic – as well as essays, experimental short stories and poetry. She develops concepts for video installations and multimedia project .

Her work unfolds in the liminal space where fact, fantasy, and fiction intersect, continually returning to one central tension: humanity’s paradoxical urge to both construct and dismantle reality.

Trained as a visual artist with a focus on lens-based media, Meike has developed a wide range of art and media projects that explore narratives and perception at the edges of reality, power, virtuality, and psychological disruption.

Alongside her creative work, she is as a core tutor in the Master’s program in Design Research at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

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Publications, Book and Tool Boxes

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The Fiction Field Lab

€ 24

Workbook and Toolbox.
Using Storytelling to Explore Place and Perception.

Published: 2026
Pages: 180
Format: 14 x 21 cm
Autors: Meike Eggers

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Immersivity

€ 24

About deep narrative absorption.

Published: 2026 (planned)
Pages: 100
Format: 14 x 21 cm
Autors: Meike Eggers

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Blokmapping

€ 19

This artist book explores an urban area through storytelling and multivocal perception.
Published: 2011
Pages: 200
Format: 20 x 30 cm
Autors: Meike Eggers & Michael Anhalt

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