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The Experience Landscape 2026: Designing for Meaning, Not Scale
A reflective essay on experience design in museums, public space, and landscapes, focusing on attention, intimacy, place, and meaning.
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What is Experience Design?
A clear perspective on experience design as the shaping of meaning, memory, and the total experience: not just touchpoints or moments.
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The Human-Scale Principle: Telling history people can feel
Most history is told at the wrong scale.
We tend to tell it in the largest units available: centuries, world
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Beyond the Glass Case: Five Ways to Turn Exhibits Into Living Worlds
Most people don’t lose interest because topics are boring. They lose interest because topics are presented in old, linear
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The Quiet Sublime - Designing public spaces that move people without saying a word
Some places move us without saying a word. The quiet sublime is the courage to design for feeling. To create tension and meaning in the space between.
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Shared Wonder: Designing public spaces for connection
We live in an age of perfect personalization. Our feeds, our headphones, our preferences all tune neatly to “just me.
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Heritage is a verb
Exploring heritage as a living practice. How communities, memories, and small acts of care keep culture connected and evolving.
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Genius Loci - How to let places speak
Human-made spaces that listen to their surroundings. Structures that reveal what’s already there, connecting people gently to the spirit of place.