Creative Instigator And Senior Producer
CurrentThe Parallel Effect works with a collective of interdisciplinary artists, scholars and technology specialists who pool their talents and ideas to explore intersectional themes of Climate Change by reimagining multiple plausible alternatives to the “present” we’re living.These alternate realities are designed to transport audiences to a space beyond the normative paradigms of our world where they can contemplate alternative pasts and futures, reclaim and interrogate the histories and realities of today, and imagine possibilities for informed and sustainable interventions in the future.Drawing on the extensive archival and transdisciplinary research we've conducted into certain patterns, anomalies and histories occurring in our dimension, writers use this data to build their own alternate timelines set in parallel worlds. This is a unique and different slant on the incredibly fashionable technique of "futuring". Instead of using where we are today and extrapolating forward, our parallel reality speculation stems from critical moments in our past and then imagines how things might have been different. This process opens our minds to an even greater range of unexpected and inspiring “futuring” possibilities.The Parallel Effect is committed to reaching across borders (disciplinary, practice, modal and geographical) to engage in holistic and intersectional conversations that empower and spark debate on local and global issues of our times.