I am an experience designer and strategist 
fostering dialogue between technology and people.

Space: Imaginary Labs (2011)

Coming off the success of The Imaginarium, we founded Imaginary Labs to conduct research at the intersection of experimental multimedia environments and human creativity. We were awarded lab space in the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory End Station III, the terminus of the original Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

The Imaginarium is now rebuilt, complete with HVAC "borrowed" from the nearby CRAY supercomputer. The Imaginarium will once again become an integral part of ME101 Visual Thinking, a cornerstone of the Undergraduate Design Program. 

The original Imaginarium used a projection system located beneath the floor that projected upwards through a fluid filled sphere. We built our first prototype to utilize the same system. However, it turned out that a projector mounted at the top of the dome pointed down onto a hemispherical mirror worked much, much better. Here's an early prototype of that, set to one of my stop motion music videos.

Before relocation to a high school in Los Angeles in 2012, the Imaginarium was used as an ad hoc work space, classroom and experimental multi-media gallery. Check out a few examples below.

Space: The Imaginarium (2010)

Two Men. Two Weeks. One Dome.

Our first Imaginarium prototype is an artful recreation of the long-defunct, eponymous emblem of the Stanford Design Program's experimental beginnings in the 1960s. The Imaginarium is an 18' diameter, 5/8 geodesic (3V) dome made of recycled cardboard enclosing a 15-sided, raised wooden platform. It is a multi-media environment designed to encourage creativity, alternative thinking and playful interaction. This project is in collaboration with Gregory Kress, a PhD candidate in the Stanford Center for Design Research.

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The Imaginarium was up for one night in the atrium of the d.school on the eve of the Design Program's Personal Statements. We hosted roughly 200 people who waited 30 minutes for a 10-minute show that featured Charles & Ray Eames' Powers of Ten video overdubbed with Johnny Greenwood’s Popcorn Superhet Receiver.

BREAKING NEWS: On the success of this project, Greg and I founded Imaginary Labs, which is currently rebuilding The Imaginarium in the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory on Stanford Campus. Imaginary Labs is primarily engaged in the study of alternative environments and experimental media communications on human creativity.

The following pictures detail the construction of the first prototype, which took place over just two weeks...outside...at night...heated only by a bonfire.