Asif Otherwise is a research and production collective working at the intersection of ecology, technology, society, and spirituality. We offer a variety of services for a variety of needs and try to live as variously as possible. We love to learn and to embrace the insufficiency of the intellect.

Our research combines empirical practices of deep listening and focused attention with critical readings of history and theoretical explorations of the future. Our productions bring about multi-perspectival understanding with a sense of style suitable to the occasion.

In this epoch of intensified global and local change, interdisciplinary thinking is not just intelligent, but an imperative for survival. In these days of widespread environmental and media collapse, there is creativity to be found in the dynamic rearrangement of the elements.

At Asif Otherwise, we believe our purpose is to uncover the adjacent possibles latent within any complex situation, and to provide our clients with a theory of change as well. For Asif Otherwise, “as if” means to dream of “otherwise” worlds, and ones we’d like to live in too.

Asif Otherwise was founded in 2025 by Chase Niesner.