TOMORROW, we welcome HYZ Studio co-founders Lois He and Vio Zhu for a behind-the-scenes look at The Endless Garden at the Dalí Museum — an experience that asks what happens when museum visitors don’t just view art, but co-create it.
The numbers suggest people are hungry for it: 54% of visitors shared or downloaded their personalized creation, and 31% clicked through to learn more about Dalí’s symbolic world.
Expect a candid breakdown of both sides of the build: how co-creation fosters curiosity and ownership on the design side, and how their AI-driven 3D pipeline avoids the generic “AI look” on the technical side. Lois comes from film and XR (Cannes, SIGGRAPH, ARTECHOUSE); Vio spent six years engineering at Google and Apple before turning to immersive work for LVMH, Coach, and the Dalí Museum.
May 7
11AM PT | 2PM ET
Link in @future_spaces bio
For designers shaping public space — this Thursday on Futurespaces, we’re joined by Aki Carpenter, Vice President and Chief Creative Officer at #RalphAppelbaumAssociates, the world’s largest design practice for museums and narrative environments.
In Designing the Civic Life We Inherit, Aki will share how cultural spaces operate as civic infrastructure — shaping how people gather, learn, and see themselves inside a broader continuum.
Her current work includes leading exhibition design for the Obama Presidential Center, with past projects spanning the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the International African American Museum, and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
What we design today becomes the inheritance others will live within.
Come think through that with us.
🗓️ Thursday, April 30
11AM PT | 2PM ET
Live on Zoom
Link in @future_spaces bio
This session is supported by @hyz_studio
For 25 years, @tellart has designed experiences for the world’s most-watched stages — the World Expo, the Olympic Games, COP, the World Economic Forum, the World Government Summit.
Their name means the art of telling. Their method? Treating emerging tech like AI and robotics as raw materials — shaped the way other studios work with wood, metal, or glass.
This Thursday, Tellart’s Principal Designer Matt Cottam joins us live: “Discovery, Prescription and Magic Carpets: Predicaments from a Designer’s Workbench”
An intimate talk + Q&A on what it really takes to lead innovation as a strategic partner, design studio, and production house — all at once.
📅 4/23 · 11AM PT / 2PM ET 🔗 RSVP at the link in bio
This month’s sessions are supported by @hyzstudio ✨
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Primo Orpilla, co-founder of #StudioOA, is joining Futurespaces this Thursday for Creating Place — a live presentation and Q&A about what happens when narrative and design are truly inseparable.
O+A’s work for Slack, adidas, Microsoft, Yelp, and Hyundai Motor Group has helped define what a workplace can be — not just a place to work, but a catalyst for creativity and culture.
Thursday, 4/16
11AM PT | 2PM ET
RSVP link in bio.
This month’s sessions are supported by @hyz_studio
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Can AI actually be creative? Sarah Brin, executive producer and creative industries advisor, led last week’s Futurespaces where she got into the types of creativity AI can create. But she also exploredwhat it can’t replicate, the ethics of training data and uncredited artists, why AI struggles with humor and satire, and what creative workers need to be doing right now — from organizing to policy writing.
The full conversation is now on YouTube.
This Thursday, we’re welcoming Christian Lachel, Chief Creative Officer of #BRCImaginationArts, for a conversation about what it takes to create experiences that don’t just attract audiences — but genuinely change them. Drawing on projects from the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka to Johnnie Walker Princes Street, he’ll share why the most powerful stories are the ones already living inside a brand, a place, or a community.
This month’s Futurespaces sessions are supported by @hyz_studio
All links in bio.
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What does it mean to design an exhibition where visitors feel free to wander — but never lost?
Joseph Becker, Curator of Architecture and Design at #SFMOMA, joined us to share how he approaches exhibition-making as spatial practice, where every decision is in service of getting people closer to the work on their own terms.
The full conversation is now on YouTube.
This Thursday, we’re welcoming Sarah Brin — executive producer and creative industries advisor — for a conversation about AI and the future of creative work. Drawing on 20+ years at the intersection of arts and technology, she’ll cut through the hype and paint a clearer picture of what’s really at stake.
Both links in bio.
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168 screens. Carried by dancers. Live, in a stadium, in front of millions. Sarah Ouellet, Head of Creative at #Float4, walked us through what it actually takes to design immersive media for formats that have no rulebook — and why the people you build around you matter as much as the brief.
The full conversation is now on YouTube.
This Thursday, we’re welcoming Joseph Becker, Curator of Architecture and Design at SFMOMA, for Exhibitism: Designing for the Museum — a conversation about exhibition-making as spatial practice and a deep dive into Art of Noise, his 100-year survey of music and design.
Watch Sarah’s recording and grab your spot for Thursday — both links in bio.
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Speaking virtually at @future_spaces tomorrow — March 5th, 11am PST 💃🏻💖
Presenting on the convergence of multimedia experience, sustainability tech, and building intelligence to create metabolic spaces. Svetlana Boym, Candice Lin, Al Bahar Towers, case studies and CSI Masterformat in the same 30 minutes.
Link in bio.
Join us tomorrow for a Futurespaces session with Josh Horowitz, award-winning experience designer and academic. Josh is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of PRESENT, a global Experience Architecture Studio, and Professor of Practice at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously founded Fake Love (acquired by The New York Times) and served as CCO at Deeplocal.
In this talk, Josh will explore experience design as a form of emotional architecture—how sensory input, narrative, space, and technology can be intentionally crafted to shape emotion, memory, and meaning. Immersive tools are treated as pathways to deepen connection, empathy, presence, and lasting impact.
This month’s Futurespaces is sponsored by: PIXERA by @avstumpfl
🌍 Live on Zoom
1/29 11AM PT | 2PM ET
Link in bio.
Immersive may be one of the most overused words in contemporary culture—and yet it refuses to go away.
From museums and festivals to branded experiences and entertainment, “immersion” remains the default promise for instant engagement, even as its meaning grows increasingly diluted.
This Thursday, January 15, Futurespaces will host a conversation led by Ana Brzezińska (Creative Director at Moment Factory; former Tribeca Immersive curator) exploring why this concept continues to captivate artists and audiences alike—long after each hype cycle should have expired.
Joined by Josh Goldblum, she’ll examine where the term still holds value, where it breaks down, and how creators can navigate the tension between innovation, storytelling, and common sense in a landscape that constantly demands novelty.
This Month’s Futurespaces in sponsored by: PIXERA by @avstumpfl
Futurespaces session + live Q&A
🌎 RSVP link in bio
Thursday, Jan 15
11AM PST | 2PM EST
Humans have been building story worlds for as long as humans have existed, and we always will.
Thibaut Duverneix explores world-building as a timeless human practice, where digital and physical storytelling serve meaning, not the other way around. Grounded in real-world practice through projects developed at Gentilhomme, the experiential studio he founded to build immersive environments, he examines how worlds are imagined, designed, and brought to life in the spaces people move through every day.
Join us tomorrow for our first Futurespaces session of the year!
Live on Zoom
11AM PST | 2PM EST
🌍 Link in bio
This Month’s Futurespaces in sponsored by: PIXERA by @avstumpfl
What happens when an ADHD diagnosis collides with generative AI?
For Chris Neff, it changed everything—from how ideas begin to how momentum takes shape.
Join Futurespaces and Anomaly’s Chief Global Officer tomorrow for conversation on AI as cognitive scaffolding, and what it can unlock for neurodivergent thinkers.
🌍 Link in bio, Thursday 12/19
11AM PT | 2PM ET
