Inspire
Your Senses
Imaginative tidbits, little wonders and wise words to awaken your creative states and fuel your sense of possibility.
"Humans are not either thinking machines or feeling machines, but rather feeling machines that think."
~ Antonio Damasio
A celebration of pioneering materials and processes for interdisciplinary and interspecies collaboration.
environment, economy 
Citizens communicate through interactive light to humanize connection across the US-Mexico border.
infrastructure, culture "We are living in times that came about from dreams of people before us. The world to come has everything to do with the dreams we are dreaming now."
~ Manoj Fenelon
A thought-provoking look at our capacity to influence and re-imagine the humanity of our food systems.
food, economy 
A cornucopia of possible futures from today’s leading voices in speculative literature and science fiction.
politics, culture 
A CERN-visiting designer who uses fashion to explore new ways of seeing and sensing the world.
environment, culture 
A playful way to measure ‘how’s the water today?’ and change our relationship to the water around us.
environment, infrastructure “You never change things by fighting the existing reality...build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
~ Buckminster Fuller
Following an artist’s process for collecting cross-disciplinary creative inspiration.
environment, culture 
A platform empowering people to co-create positive and ecologically-balanced futures.
environment, infrastructure 
A playful take at how artifacts from the near future can impact our innovations today.
economy, culture 
Reminds us of the power of storytelling as a tool for creating better futures.
environment, culture 
An arctic explorer’s thoughts on how silence can help us find wonder in the everyday.
spirituality, culture “To live with hope in times that reward cynicism and, in many ways, call for cynicism, I think, is a tremendous act of courage and resistance.”
~ Maria Popova
Highlights artists and designers using play as a critical tool for social transformation.
urbanism, culture 
Poetically probes how architecture can generously respond to both humans and nature.
environment, infrastructure 
"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."
~ Roger von Oech
A provocative dive into how we are reframing our future, socially, ethically and aesthetically.
economy, culture 
A tool to help us overcome our vagueness and tell others how we really feel.
spirituality, wellness 
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
~ Arundhati Roy
Shows our connection to the universe is as transformative as it is ephemeral.
spirituality, culture 
Introduces the fearless, fantastical approach of this très Frrreench experience designer.
environment, culture 
Reminds us of architecture’s power to build future dreams into reality.
urbanism, infrastructure 
"When enough people raise play to the status it deserves in our lives, we will find the world a better place."
~ Stuart Brown
Champions play as productive, expressive, educational and fundamental to our well-being.
education, culture 
Asks us to creatively and critically question the future we are creating.
environment, economy 
Whimsically turns frozen lakes into heart-warming creative playgrounds.
urbanism, culture 
Thoughtfully questions how our connection to the land defines and divides us.
infrastructure, culture 
Investigates how extreme climate organisms might help us push our boundaries.
environment, economy 
"All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed."
~ Robert Henri
"The 20th century was all about big changes in the outer world; the 21st century is about big changes in our inner worlds."
~ Douglas Coupland
