Parallel Worlds

World-building is a valuable tool in art and design. The ability to immerse an audience in a complete world is crucial to the framing of TV shows and movies; corporations, nations, political parties, theatrical productions, and futurists all engage in ‘world-building’. What can artists and designers learn from world-building to enhance and augment their own practice? This is the podcast which accompanies the course at parallel.olliepalmer.com

2025 W7E3 Synthesis

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04-11
30:00

2025 W7E2 List of things

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04-11
19:39

2025 W7E1 Six House Parties by Ross Sutherland

This episode we're mixing it up a little, and listening to a story from another podcast! This episode features Ross Sutherland’s story ⁠Six House Parties⁠, which is part of his podcast ⁠Imaginary Advice⁠. You can also listen to the original story on ⁠Soundcloud⁠, but I really recommend you subscribe to ⁠Imaginary Advice⁠ with your favourite podcast app!  Many thanks to Ross for letting us use this segment. A full transcript of Ollie’s part of this episode is available at the ⁠Parallel Worlds website⁠.

04-11
32:51

2025 W6E5 Exercises

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04-04
09:31

2025 W6E4 Exercises

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04-04
11:34

2025 W6E3 Exercises

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04-04
20:53

2025 W6E2 Exercises

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04-04
21:57

2025 W6E1 Exercises

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04-04
14:48

2025 W5E2 Sound design

Full show notes at parallel.olliepalmer.comThis week's episode links to two other podcasts:Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies from the Guardian Sounds Natural from 99 Percent InvisibleCredits: Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies⁠: written by ⁠Jordan Kisner⁠ and read by Christopher Ragland; Produced by ⁠Simon Barnard⁠. Sounds Natural: Producer Emmett FitzGerald spoke with film producer ⁠Chris Palmer⁠; Foley artist ⁠Richard Hinton⁠ and sound recordist ⁠Chris Watson⁠.

03-28
02:21

2025 W5E1 The House by Nick Bromann

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03-28
12:14

2025 W4E5 Daily exercises

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03-11
18:48

2025 W4E4 Daily Exercises

More daily exercises! Full show notes at parallel.olliepalmer.com

03-11
07:45

2025 W4E3 Daily exercises

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03-11
12:28

2025 W4E2 Daily exercises

Full show notes at https://parallel.olliepalmer.com/2024-25/podcast/w04e02

03-11
14:05

2025 W3E2 Matrix of Salvis

Today’s episode was made by ⁠Salvis Slavišens⁠, a Situated Design student who took this course a few years ago. More information and full credits at ⁠parallel.olliepalmer.com/2024-25/podcast/w03e02⁠.Music in this episode by ⁠Ketsa⁠ (Multiverse) and ⁠Daniel Birch⁠ (Amber Haze), both used with Creative Commons licenses.

03-07
08:19

2025 W3E1 Counterfactuals

This is a long-form document about: Counterfactuals! Show notes (a transcript!) here: https://parallel.olliepalmer.com/2024-25/podcast/w03e01

03-07
28:08

2025 W2E5 Freewriting

Final podcast of the week! More information at parallel.olliepalmer.com

02-18
13:43

2025 W2E4 Freewriting

Nearly the last episode of the week! More information at parallel.olliepalmer.com

02-18
14:09

2025 W2E3 Freewriting

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02-18
12:13

2025 W2E2 Freewriting

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02-18
12:11

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