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designing for lingering

in an age of urgency

an interactive virtual workshop on  
designing for the slow, the savoring, the liminal, and the eddies that help us step out of this wild rush of time

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 resist the rush that we're sold

learn how to design for the moments that breathe, break the cycles of scarcity, and remind us of the sweetness that lives in the slow

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  Every advance in technology promises to save us time — quicker, faster, more efficient — yet instead every ping, meeting, and message manages to keep stealing it from us.

We’ve been trained to move rapidly, optimize harder, and call it progress.  But for what? Time to do more things, also faster?

What we truly crave is time to be with.

With one another. With ourselves. With the trees and the poets and the scones hot out of the oven and the baby feet that will never be so small again. 

Meaning lives in the pauses and the in-betweens.
In the moments that stretch time instead of shrink it. In the thresholds of hopeful possibilities.

So let’s design for the lingering.

Not the endless scroll and the robot algorithms.

In this live, interactive workshop...

You’ll learn how to slow down time — on purpose.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to design for the liminal — those in-between moments where hope, attention, and connection are allowed the space to breathe.

You’ll experiment with a framework for lingering that makes you a time designer. We'll play with the before, the extending, the slowing, and the beyond time — and learn how to use each to create experiences that clarify instead of blur.

By the end, you’ll walk away with a design practice for lingering — complete with prompts, tools, and invitations to help your people feel more here in whatever you create.

Let’s linger a little longer, shall we?

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what you'll learn

✹ The four flavors of lingering — hoping, having, stretching, and sticking — and how to use them to shape time inside your experiences.

✹ How to design for the in-between — the thresholds, pauses, and transitions that hold more power than we give them credit for.

✹ Ways to counter urgency culture through simple, sensory, and intentional design choices.

✹ A framework for slowing time — one you can apply to workshops, gatherings, performances, or any moment meant to be felt.

 

we’re not just talking theory

you’ll walk away with hands-on tools, creative prompts, and your own design for lingering — something you can use immediately to soften time in your work and your world.

this is for you if


✔ You’ve felt the pull between urgency and meaning, and you’re ready to choose the latter.

✔ You lead spaces, programs, or experiences and want to bring people deeper into presence instead of rushing through an agenda.

✔ You’re curious about what slowing down can make possible in creativity, connection, and culture.

✔ You want to design experiences that stay with people long after they end.

✔ You believe time is one of your most powerful design materials and want to learn how to shape it with intention.

✔ You’re craving tools that help you design moments of pause, reflection, and resonance in a world hooked on speed.

  why join live?

🌿 Hands-on design: Explore and design your own moment of lingering. You’ll leave with something real you can bring into your next experience, gathering, or creative space.

đŸ’« Collective inspiration: Move slowly together. Notice what emerges when we trade urgency for curiosity, and gather fresh ideas from others doing the same.

đŸŽ€ Live Q&A: Bring your questions, your tensions, your “how do I even slow down when everything’s on fire” feeling — and get live feedback to ground them in practice.

📘 Exclusive resources: Receive a bonus guide with prompts and tools for designing the liminal, the slow, and the moments that reshape time.

🐌 slow and steady wins the race 🐌

how folks leave feeling...

about Olivia Vagelos and the Studio

Hi, I'm Olivia.

I'm an experience designer, facilitator, and the founder of The Design for Feelings Studio. Previous to studio life, I was a long time IDEO’er and Stanford d.school’er. 

I create spaces for people to find the strange-beautiful parts of themselves that have been left behind, to imagine and move differently, and to meet one another in new ways — all through immersive workshops, interactive events, and multi-sensory experiences.

My work blends story, behavioral psychology, architecture, learning, and play to design interactions and experiences that change us. 

I love helping people make whatever they’re making more memorable, more meaningful, more beautiful, and more chaotically and curiously weird. 

The robots may be here, but that means we need wild-wild-humaning more than ever. 

"Olivia is a world-weaver, spinning together meaning, myth, ritual, language, and the full spectrum of the sensorial into spaces and experiences that unlock new possibilities. 

When we speak of “magic,” we mean delight in the unexpected, the joy of wonder, emotional care, and a full-bodied sensorial immersion we are happy to surrender to.

Quite simply, Olivia is a magician." 

Mitch Carter Jafery

Co-Founder of Friday Gallery & Design Fellow at IDEO, former Chief Creative Officer at IDEO

 

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"Olivia is a phenomenal experience designer at the top of her craft, who is taking the rigor of the design thinking processes that she rocked at IDEO and combining it with the intangible art of experience design. She has created a process around the chaos of creating both the emotional and the transformational. 

Run, don’t walk, to whatever she makes, or whatever she invites you to experience."

Jenny Gottstein
Creative Director and Founder of Playscapades Studio, Creator of the Climate Action Game Show

"As an executive producer of experiential marketing, I find Olivia’s approach to designing with emotions super aligned with how we should all approach creating experiences. Her ability to create safe space with intention is unique, and I find her strategies and tactics incredibly valuable and useful. 

If you get a chance to spend some time in her welcoming space, definitely take it!"

Isis Arias
Executive Experiential Producer & Brand Marketer, Former Marketing Lead of Global Live Experiences @ Netflix

"Olivia challenges your existing perspectives with tenderness; brings depth, texture, and emotion to every topic, and takes participants on a gentle and provocative journey into what's next in truly beautiful ways.

Work with her! You might cry? You'll definitely feel warm and fuzzy. And maybe a little upset by the world as it is.

But that's ok, because you'll already be on your way to building what could be, instead."

Keely Adler
Cultural Futurist at RADAR & Dentsu Creative

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