The Design for Feelings Studio
The Design for Feelings Studio exists in service of designing experiences with the textures of poetry, supporting people in nuanced emotional exploration, and building the conditions for folks to imagine and manifest more beautiful, regenerative, inclusive futures. We marry the rigor and magic of experience design, and love to play at the edges.
Olivia Vagelos
Olivia Vagelos is an Experience Designer and Community Strategist, and the founder of The Design for Feelings Studio.
Before launching Design for Feelings, Olivia was at IDEO, housed inside their online school, IDEO U, and the Play Lab. While there she helped start both the Experiential Design and Community Design disciplines and define the future of creative online learning. Prior to IDEO she was designing and facilitating programs at the Stanford Design School and with The Hewlett Foundation.
She has worked with clients ranging from multi-billion dollar entertainment companies to small community-based non-profits, and taught and lectured at the Stanford d.School, Stanford LEAD, Santa Monica College, Columbia Medical School, and Georgetown.
Check out her portfolio“I’m an experiential designer creating soft spaces for wild, collective imagination.
I nerd out on crafting rituals, connecting strangers, manipulating spacetime, and immersive, multi-sensory experience design. I hold a strong belief that laughter and beautiful questions build the most extraordinary things. I see storybuilding as an architectural craft. I’m constantly seeking ways to be in conversation with land and place. And I have learned that we should never move too fast to slow down in order to listen more deeply.
And I am also a sucker for a dad-pun and obsessed with the visually absurd.”
