Fairy Tale Lab
Because right now, the world needs magic
In the midst of multiple, interwoven crises, we find ourselves at a threshold.
A fork in our future appears briefly: between continued destruction,
or survival.
To choose survival, we must choose a world of systems, discourses and possibilities for mutual healing within the
more-than-human.
We may not yet know what this emerging world will look like
But what we do have is a tool common to every culture on the planet, that has helped since time immemorial in navigating the unknown, often dangerous, worlds between worlds.
That is the fairy tale.
As the climate crisis, indeed the metacrisis, unfolds a tale of epic, planetary and unfathomable proportions
We believe the fairy tale can help
The Fairy Tale Lab holds that other worlds do already exist, but are smothered by globalized capitalism and its upholding ontology.
Decolonization is the most critical process in releasing this stranglehold so that multiple worlds can fluorish.
But how do inheritors of these strangleholds find their way out, to be able to see what else is possible?
And how can communication and understanding occur between worlds?
This is where we harness fairy tale, to loosen ourselves into the magic and mystery needed to find our way to reconnect beyond ourselves.
Fairy tale becomes a tool for reclaiming, healing and holding
other worlds
Our crises call for re-enchantment
Working definition of a fairy
A fairy occurs only in relationship. Only in space between space. Fairies - and their counterparts found around the world, "hidden beings" ranging from Hawaiian menehune to Icelandic huldufólk to Maori patupaiarehe - are mystical mediators between human and more-than-human worlds. They defy "objectivity" and thus are deemed "unreal" within the naturalist ontology. They therefore point beyond our world to a wider world.
