Discovery: a story about rooftops, airships, robots and inflatables_ is an installation exploring themes of worldmaking, ecology and artificial intelligence. Born out of observations of an emerging rooftop culture of urban gardening and alternative lifestyles in downtown LA during the pandemic, the story of Discovery follows The Airborne Collective, a radical environmental hacker group seeking to make a flourishing roofscape ecosystem and unleash hope and optimism in the face of looming ecological threat. Operating between the languages of design, fashion and video games, the project extends [Lifeforms.io](http://Lifeforms.io) work on systems and aesthetics of simulated worlds into the space of a physical installation. In the project, designs operate as the characters in a video game. Even if they can exist individually, the final meaning of designs results from their grouping together to create a particular ensemble. Every piece references and contains a broader whole, a [[World]] The term "world" here is metaphorical. Its meaning is similar to the one Nelson Goodman uses in Ways of Worldmaking: a world is a formal structure governed by an internally consistent logic. **Programs and** **Technologies:** solar photovoltaics thin film photovoltaics, dichroic film 3d printing from recycled plastic concentrated solar power using dual axis tracking spherical fresnel reflectors solar photovoltaic fabric (inflatables)/rubber microturbines hydrogen fuel cells water harvesting fabric growing lights for farming solar powered autonomous rewilding robots (SPARRs) photobioreactors with bioluminescent algae energy storage units phytoremediation through local vegetation water harvesting passive cooling carbon scrubbers composting greenhouses aquaponics biodigesters greywater recycling fruit trees fruit walls vertical outdoor gardening water bioflitration binary low-temperature geothermal units luminescent solar concentrator (ClearVue) Vortex Tacoma bladeless wind turbines microgrid (storage, connections, powerpacks) walipini style greenhouses gravity-fed water filtration with botanical cells bio ceramic domes (Geoship) seed bank cistern and drip irigation