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the architectures of endings

an interactive micro workshop

on designing more meaningful final moments

📆 our next workshop date 📆

wednesday november 12th @ 10am PT

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 the ending changes the whole

learn how to craft the critical closing moments of your experiences

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Of all the moments to design, endings perhaps matter the most.

They have an outsized impact on how we remember an experience. And not only can they can fundamentally change our understanding of everything that came before, they can also shift everything that comes after.

Yet too often, we skip the ending.

We don't leave ourselves, the designers, with enough energy to plan for something meaningful.

We rush our participants to what’s next, leaving the threads of journeys untethered, conversations half-finished, and energy scattered like pigeons waddling chaotic circles on New York City's streets.

Our brains crave the closing of loops. Completion. Finality.

Closing a loop doesn’t just mean checking off a task or wrapping up a project. It’s completing the boundary of an experience. It’s what makes everything that's happened, and everything that follows, make sense.

When endings go missing, our experiences drift in a kind of limbo — unanchored, unremembered, unintegrated.
 

But when we honor them, we massively expand the potential of whatever we are building.

 Because in closing the loop, you also open the door
 to all the beauty that’s been waiting just beyond the threshold.

In this live, micro workshop...

We’ll explore how to end things — gatherings, projects, programs, stories — with a banger, rather than a fizzle.

Together, we’ll wander through different typologies of closings, diving into how we honor what’s ending, and how to shape the space that makes room for what’s next.

You’ll walk away with frameworks, tools, and prompts to help you design endings that stay with people long after.

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what you'll learn 

✹ Why the endings matter so darn much, and why you should be investing more energy in them 

✹ Four typologies of meaningful endings that will support you in thinking creatively about the close 

 ✹ Juicy questions to help you think about bringing your people across the exit threshold  

✹ A plug-and-play framework you can adapt for your next project, gathering, or experience 

this is for you if


✔ You’re tired of abrupt goodbyes and anticlimactic finishes. 

✔ You lead experiences, programs, or creative projects and want to design more meaningful conclusions. 

✔ You're hungry to use closure as a form of care — for yourself, and your people. 

✔ You believe endings deserve as much (if not more) design energy as beginnings. 

✔ You’re craving more reflection and ritual in the spaces you create.

  why join live?

🛠 Hands-on design: Design an ending of your own. You’ll leave with a tangible closing moment for your next project, gathering, or season of life.

đŸ”„Â Collective inspiration: Notice what emerges when we trade rushed closures for reverence, and gather insights from others doing the same.

📱 15-min Live Q&A: Bring your open loops, unfinished stories, and “how do I even end this?” moments — and get grounded, practical feedback.

🎁 Exclusive resources: Receive a post-workshop guide with prompts and tools for designing endings that both linger longer and escort folks towards what’s next.

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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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architectures of endings

📆 november 12th @ 10am PT 📆

Join us for a live exploration of endings that make space for beginnings.

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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

have questions?

Drop us an email at [email protected]