The Others Podcast
OTHERSIDE

Otherside is an evolving, collaborative encyclopedia of creative explorations. Instead of collecting fixed facts, it traces living processes - the ways people think, make, choose, and move through the world.

We invite you to explore these alternatives for yourself.

We live inside systems shaped by capitalism, speed culture, and the quiet expectation to stay efficient, certain, silent, and productive at all times. Under those conditions, reflection becomes a luxury and experimentation becomes risky and intimidating. Otherside is an intentional counterpoint: a space where imperfect attempts matter, where curiosity has room, and where you can follow a thread without knowing where it leads - even if you're not sure you'll agree with where it ends up.

A traditional encyclopedia gathers knowledge. Otherside activates it; turning understanding into something you can experience, sense, and expand, through practice, reflection and imagination.

We're not building an archive to read, but an environment to learn, teach, share, and create within. It's a space that grows through participation.

We know it's a complex idea. It's layered and a bit abstract. But in case you want to go down the rabbit hole with us, we've created a glossary and a visual map to help you navigate the structure behind it.

Term
Example
What it is
What it does
Otherside
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An evolving, participatory encyclopedia of alternative ways of doing and thinking, explored and expressed through creativity.
Creates space to explore, test, reflect on, and expand alternative perspectives, methods, and possibilities - through making, sensing, and collaboration.
Alternative perspective
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A different way of seeing or understanding something. One that sits outside the dominant, habitual, expected, or mainstream viewpoint.
Opens up new possibilities.
Exploration
The Others
A chapter of that encyclopedia - focused on one recurring question, pattern, or concept.
Investigates how a way of being/thinking manifests across people, places, and mediums.
Subject
The Creative Mind
The specific concept, idea, or phenomenon being explored.
Defines the focus of the exploration.
Volume
Volume II
One cycle of the exploration, created within a specific setting, using a distinct approach and set of mediums.
Brings the subject to life through real people, real context, and active experimentation.
Setting
Berlin, Autumn, 2025
The place and time where the subject unfolds in that volume. The contextual conditions shaping what is being studied.
Grounds the exploration in real-world conditions.
Approach
Trace how creative patterns show up in both practice and everyday life, then express those patterns across multiple mediums and within your local creative community.
The lens, method, or strategy used to explore the subject. How it's observed or activated.
Shapes how learning, engagement, and co-creation happen.
Medium(s)
Podcast, online feature, magazine, lab
The forms through which the exploration expresses itself.
Turns the inquiry into experience: sound, image, story, space, code, etc. So other people can engage with it.
Mapping
Each featured person
To place something or someone onto a shared terrain of understanding.
Makes the inquiry concrete, human, and local; forms the "entries" of the evolving encyclopedia.
Issue
The Others Magazine, Issue II
Optional print to accompany each volume.
Synthesizes, reflects, and expands the inquiry into a tangible artifact.
Lab
The Others Vol II Exhibition on Nov 26th 2025
Live experimental space: showcasing new work, inviting participation, hosting workshops, activating alternative perspectives.
Allows people to test alternative ways of doing and thinking.
Miro concept map explaining Otherside.

Over time, this website will become much lighter and easier to grasp at a glance. But right now we're focused on building a clear foundation, making the thinking visible before we refine how it looks. Language is one of the ways we do that. It takes time to translate abstract ideas into words, but it's a necessary first step before everything else unfolds.

If you ever want more context on who we are, have feedback, or just want to continue down the rabbit hole, just reach out. We'd love to hear from you. And if you're in Berlin and want to grab coffee, even better.

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