Parly — Community & Discovery Platform

Summary

Parly is an experimental collaboration platform designed to connect artists, technologists, and researchers across institutions, disciplines, and creative practices. The project emerged from a simple observation: despite Greater Boston being one of the densest concentrations of creative and technical talent in the world, there is no shared infrastructure for discovering collaborators, forming teams, or building interdisciplinary projects across institutional boundaries.

Parly was created to address this gap by acting as a living network for collaboration, currently operating as a Discord-based system that connects students and creators from Berklee, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, MassArt, Emerson, and beyond. Members verify their academic affiliation, define skill-based profiles, and post or receive targeted opportunities that match their interests and expertise. This structure allows collaboration to form organically around intent and capability, rather than institutional silos.

My broader mission with Parly is to help position Greater Boston as the global capital for interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation — a place where art, technology, research, and education actively intersect rather than operate in parallel. The project reflects my interest in building platforms that empower people to create together responsibly, especially at moments of technological transition.