Immersive Futures
Project ERA
In 2023, I moved to Barcelona. Eager to continue creating futures experiences, building communities and activating hearts and minds about critical future topics, I began exploring how to bring more immersive and experiential models into futures discussions. Inspired by immersive theatre and interactive, participatory experiences. I sought to bring these interaction and theatrical devices into the futures space. ERA was a project I created with the intent of expanding how we introduce audiences to potential future scenarios.
The original pitch for the event was. “What if we had an experience focused around a meal where each artist designed a different dish? But each dish was implicilty meant to teach you something about the impact of climate change. Maybe you would eat a piece of endangered seaweed. Maybe part of the experience would be blindfolded to shut down other senses and highlight others such as smell and tactility” The idea of engaging more than 2 human sense (as opposed to sight and sound which is what you typically engage in a conference or classroom setting) we would be able to create more sensory memories that could be more likely to sustain themselves in your mind. These multi-sensorial aspects could potentially change how people think and experience the future. The same kind of muscle memory that is engaged when you smell something that reminds you of a particular event or moment in your life.