What the f*#k just happened! — 2020 right?! January, February, Quarantine, December. It flew by, and the world changed just as fast. Our entire programming got canceled this year so we weren’t able to continue our work. That being said, there’s much to reflect on that I’d like to share with you all. The U-Turn of the Experience Economy 2020 pulled the…

Designing for Connection to Self, Other and Nature. — The invention of the telegraph, the telephone, trains, airplanes, social media, and the creation of cities all point at human need to be connected. However, the result of these inventions is an increasingly complex society that has given us more technological interconnection but less connection to our inner lives. There’s…

Why we should take artists to the moon — The #dearMoon project by Yusaku Maezawa is in my view one of the most inspiring and endearing projects we’ve had since we first stepped on the moon. For decades we’ve been sending scientists to space but with this project, taking artists is profound because unlike scientists, artists have a higher…

Why we should think about culture before we design — It used to be Hollywood that drives culture but now, it’s Silicon Valley. It seems to me that rarely we consider the long-term impact on our culture by the designs we design. We invented automobiles and built our cities around them leaving little room for anything else — leisure, green…

Futures is a publication of illustrated sci-fi short stories written by designers, artists, entrepreneurs and futurists to explore the social impact of technology in our society. Stories An account of imaginary or real people and events told for readers to think about the future. We strive to curate stories around the…

These days, I spend a lot of time designing or curating experiences around three pillars — conversations, connection and vulnerability. — Humans, at our core, are social creatures. Countries, religions, communities, tribes, friends — all originate from the need to be social from the way gather, communicate and how we connect. Somewhere along the advancement of civilization we forgot why we gathered. …

In the grand cosmos of things we can appreciate our insignificance. We’re born. We live, some of us, if we’re lucky. And we die. Our existence, in the grand scale of things is by definition a miracle. And so, we yearn. We crave to make the boldest statement of our…

We’ve always said that TheGlint is inspired by 17th-century salons and now with our own space — House of Glint — we’re recreating that in the 21st century. It’s the home of TheGlint and a space created for experiences that seeks to connect humans in a deeper and intellectual way…

cPulse gauges culture at your company that helps you take meaningful actions toward it. — Measure culture. Those are the words we want to hear but in truth, I don’t know if we can accurately measure culture quite yet, the same way we can’t objectively say what’s good art and bad art. Asking to accurately measure culture displays a fundamental misunderstanding of it. We are…