About The Kaiju Papers

The Kaiju Papers is the public-facing knowledge repository for Mission Kaiju_Love_Care_Futures_02026, a.k.a. The Godzilla Mission. 

This mission’s research asks: what might the future look like if humankind were to implement lessons from The Godzilla franchise about love, mutual trust and collaboration, anti-fascism, the world, and ourselves?

To build your understanding of the Mission, start here:

  1. Research Methodology for Kaiju_Love_Care_Futures_02026
  2. Site Index: all mission assets listed and linked

To keep up with the mission on social media, follow us at the links below:

  1. Instagram
  2. TikTok
  3. Bluesky
  4. LinkedIn

WHO WE ARE:

We are a distributed team of researchers, artists, and goofballs. While the Godzilla Field Office is based in New York City, we work with contributors from all over the globe. Read team bios here: Meet the Kaiju Mission Team and Meet The Kaiju Mission Arts Department

Mission Headquarters is in charge of reigning in the Field Office team and supervising a myriad of other research missions investigating Sci-Fi franchises across space and time. Mission Headquarters is very busy.

The Field Office Team is responsible for the Discovery section of this mission's Research Metholodology:  The Kaiju Mission Field Office will identify lessons for the future in the Godzilla franchise and produce Field Reports outlining those lessons.

The Arts Department is responsible for the Imagining New Possibilities section of this mission's Research Methodology: The Kaiju Mission Arts Department will imagine and illustrate futures based on the lessons outlined in Field Reports. We are continually recruiting for the Arts Department. Interested parties: access the Creative Brief.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Members of the public can engage with the mission in the following ways:

A. Subscribe to The Kaiju Papers. 

B. Join the Mission’s Board of Directors by becoming a paid subscriber. While—in accordance with the mission’s belief in Knowledge as a Collective Good—non-confidential mission assets will never exist behind a paywall, paid subscribers do receive the following benefits:

  • All Paid Subscribers will have a seat on the Mission’s Board of Directors. Ours is not a working nor a governing nor a managing Board, but Board Members will be invited to an annual virtual Board Meeting.
  • Paid subscribers will receive Kaiju postcards from the mission’s Lead Investigator with behind-the-scenes mission updates, dispatched monthly.
  • Mission Patrons will have a plaque with their name on it installed at the Kaiju Mission Field Office, and they will have helped the mission obtain access to artifacts such as the Japanese cut of King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), which is very difficult to do in the United States, where this mission is headquartered.

…If you are unable to become a paid subscriber, but you would like to make a one-time contribution, you can do so using this link. 

C. Share The Kaiju Papers with friends and colleagues, especially those interested in futures and foresight work (and those able and interested to provide finanical support). 

D. Join the Godzilla Mission Arts Department, whose mandate is to create art in any medium that imagines what the future might look like if humankind were to implement some of the lessons outlined in the Mission’s Field Reports. These might be illustrations of the futures themselves or imagined artifacts that exist in these futures. Interested partied can access the Arts Department Creative Brief here.

E. Sign up for Community Sensemaking Sessions: The Field Office and Mission HQ will partner to host in-person and virtual Community Sensemaking sessions. These sessions will center around community Backcasting exercises. We are planning on facilitating six sensemaking sessions (five for each era of Godzilla films, one for the entire franchise) between Summer 02026 and Fall 02027 to answer the question: “what will it take to achieve a version of these imagined futures?”(five sessions, one for each of the five eras). The hopeful outcome of these sessions is an understanding of what we can change or adopt now in order to make these futures more likely.

Thank you for your support of curiousity and rigor and joining us as we explore the Godzilla archives.

Yours in Science,

The Kaiju Mission Team

This mission is dedicated to the memory of Harvey Rowe.

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