From Spark to Structure

The Momentum Principle for Future Narratives

Every future narrative begins with momentum – a spark, often called the inciting incident in storytelling. This spark is not chosen to confirm an outcome already known, but for its potential: the capacity to grow into meaning, to generate its own inner logic in combination with other elements, and to carry enough weight to transform the status quo. Out of this momentum, causality and coherence emerge, allowing a structure to reveal itself.

It may sound abstract, like a formula waiting to be set in motion. Its purpose is not (only) to validate existing knowledge but to open pathways toward what is still undefined. The act of filling it, of allowing it to unfold, is a creative adventure. The joy lies in discovery.

The Momentum Principle positions future narrative as an exploratory technique: a journey into what is not yet known, or not yet fully seen. Rather than simply presenting facts in narrative form, it enables the discovery of coherence, the articulation of latent meaning, and the creation of new ways of understanding the future.

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The Momentum Principle – Narrative Formula

Momentum (spark)
= an event, image, or tension with potential but no fixed outcome

+ Ingredients

• Catalysts (making / research iteration)
• Context (time, place, conditions that give the spark resonance)
• Character / Agent (who is changed, touched, or moved by it)
• Tension / Dissonance (why it matters, what is at stake)
• Literature (external sources of knowledge)
• Potentiality (the open horizon of meanings and consequences — the end is not the end)
• Audience (who the story is addressed to)

→ Activation / Process (discovering meaning and position)

• Reflection, exploration, and interaction of all ingredients
• Choices, missteps, or interpretations that allow the spark to evolve into meaning and connect with a specific field

= Emergence (leading toward Structure and Voice — the Narrative)

• Causality (a chain of events unfolds)
• Coherence (inner logic is revealed)
• Transformation (the status quo is shifted)