• Beyond Storytelling: The Power of Narrative in the Experience Economy (Late)

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    In Beyond Storytelling: The Power of Narrative in the Experience Economy, Theron Skees challenges experience creators, designers, and brand leaders to rethink the role of story—not as an artistic layer, but as a strategic engine that builds meaning, consistency, and trust across every brand touchpoint. Through his framework, Narrative Experience Design – an experience-centric method that begins […]

  • Building a Civic‑Scale Immersive Installation: Lessons from the HeadMaze Launch (Early)

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    Due to open on Chicago's waterfront destination Navy Pier, HeadMaze is the first in a series of monumental interactive art installations exploring our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. Unfolding over a 20-room mind-bending maze of our subconscious and dreams sat across four stories, HeadMaze is squarely aimed at connection, mental […]

  • Building a Civic‑Scale Immersive Installation: Lessons from the HeadMaze Launch (Late)

    Zoom

    Due to open on Chicago's waterfront destination Navy Pier, HeadMaze is the first in a series of monumental interactive art installations exploring our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. Unfolding over a 20-room mind-bending maze of our subconscious and dreams sat across four stories, HeadMaze is squarely aimed at connection, mental […]

  • From Design to Production: A Step‑by‑Step Guide to Staging a Large‑Scale Production (Early)

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    Large‑scale staging isn’t just “a bigger show.” It’s an experience designed to connect people to story and culture, give them identity, and create meaning. In this Campfire, Sergio Ramírez Rivera (CEO, Demiurgo LBX) will walk through a practical, end‑to‑end method for taking an idea from first sketch to opening night—without losing the heart of the […]

  • From Design to Production: A Step‑by‑Step Guide to Staging a Large‑Scale Production (Late)

    Zoom

    Large‑scale staging isn’t just “a bigger show.” It’s an experience designed to connect people to story and culture, give them identity, and create meaning. In this Campfire, Sergio Ramírez Rivera (CEO, Demiurgo LBX) will walk through a practical, end‑to‑end method for taking an idea from first sketch to opening night—without losing the heart of the […]

  • Eat with your Ears: A Practical Guide to Designing Experiences With Taste & Sound (Early)

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    Immersive experiences are too often reduced to screens. To create lasting, mind‑shifting states, we have to design beyond vision. However when we combine taste and sound… Vision is overloaded. Sound - one of our fastest, most immediate channels - cuts through the noise. Eating is our most intimate ritual. For millennia, shared meals have anchored […]

  • Eat with your Ears: A Practical Guide to Designing Experiences With Taste & Sound (Late)

    Zoom

    Immersive experiences are too often reduced to screens. To create lasting, mind‑shifting states, we have to design beyond vision. However when we combine taste and sound… Vision is overloaded. Sound - one of our fastest, most immediate channels - cuts through the noise. Eating is our most intimate ritual. For millennia, shared meals have anchored […]

  • Engineering Belonging: How to Turn Product Launches into Living Worlds (Early)

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    A practical Campfire on using story, symbolism, ritual, and sensory design to build brand worlds people choose to join. What if a car launch wasn’t just a moment – but the start of a culture? In this Campfire, The Hanging House co‑founders Anam Ahmad and Husam Haris will take you inside Nissan NISMO’s Red Ring […]