THE WORLD CAME FLOODING IN: Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine on Crafting Climate Memory in Immersive Storytelling

Mathieu G.

Between meetings at IFFR, the conversation with Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine quickly moved beyond the usual “how did you make it?” Because THE WORLD CAME FLOODING IN isn’t just another XR title on a festival slate. It’s a deliberate attempt to stage the afterlife of a climate disaster—the 2022 floods in eastern Australia—using immersion […]

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