Public Gatherings
I host free public gatherings. I’d love to have you. I’d love to have whomever you’d like to bring along.
What to expect: Slow time, no urgency, and no pressure to make anything good or finished. Space for soft conversations.
Drop your name and email in this form to be added to the list and receive all the calendar invites.
Note: these synchronous sessions are somewhat chaotically scheduled to be able to include folks from different time zones.
How shall we address your invite?
✨ Design for Feelings ✨
Building a Synesthetic Thesaurus to cultivate our multi-sensory emotional vocabularies
Each session we will choose a feeling. We'll spend some time going in search of things that make us feel that way, across mediums. Then we'll come together to unpack and explore the nuance of that emotion. Each session will leave us all with a library of insight, artifacts, experiences, and tastes, to draw on for the future.
🌀 Design for Spacetime 🌀
Building a Temporal Atlas of the relationships between space, time, and the felt experience
Each session we will choose a type of spacetime. And we’ll feel around it. Poke its edges, stretch its ligaments, meander its landscapes. This is not about synthesis. Convergence. Finding a unifying theory of spacetime. It is about exploring the complexity and interrelationships – the subjectivity and beauty and nuance of how we experience this world.
Dima Boulad
Head of Design Research, Dubai Design Lab
"💫 One of my favorite moments is catching Olivia Vagelos' public virtual gathering ✨ Design for Feelings ✨.
Each month is an invitation to deep dive into an emotion; unpacking its nuances and exploring how to design intentional, multi sensory experiences that truly make you _feel_.
🌀 With these sessions, Olivia has created an inspiring space to flex that Experience Design muscle; to reflect on how to craft experiences that are immersive, meaningful, and emotionally resonant."
