David Hjalmar Lindberg Stockholm, Sweden

Nakãya

An AI-born universe of creatures, landscapes and myth.

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Worldbuilding & art

An original universe · Since 2022
A being from Nakãya with a speckled jade crest and great curled, ribbed horns, looking straight ahead.

About the project

A parallel world that reaches ours through AI.

Since 2022, Nakãya has grown from a series of images into a living mythology, told through film, immersive installations, music and community. Its message is simple: everything is connected.

nakaya.world

200K+

Followers on Instagram

2.3M+

Views on the 2025 trailer

2023

Swedish Design Award, People’s Choice winner

A glowing river winds through the vast, living landscape of Nakãya.
A pale being with snake-patterned skin and a crown of fine ribbed fins.
A dark-skinned being wrapped around a great speckled shell.
A long, winding structure of living stone and dwellings curves above the coast.
A village of round dwellings grown into a mossy outcrop among cliffs.
A speckled being with amber pods along its neck, standing in tall grass.
A glowing world seen from orbit, rivers of light running across its surface.
A huge speckled creature resting on a grassy ridge above the clouds.
A pale being with great curling horns, dressed in white, before a grey sea with others behind.
A vast communal hall grown from living wood, with round windows onto a forest.
Inside an artisan’s workshop of bone-white curves and woven fibre.
A weathered wall of porous, coral-like stone with flowers growing from it.