ABRAHAM BURICKSON Co-Founder of Odyssey Works and Co-Director of the Experience Design Certificate Program, has spent more than two decades _exploring the relationship between what we make and how it is _experienced. Trained in architecture at Cornell University and in poetry and playwriting at the Michener Center for Writers, he has also studied the transformative power of designed experience with the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey, the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon, and with countless artists, designers, and students through Odyssey Works. He is also the founder of The Long Architecture Project, which _rethinks architectural practice from the perspective of Experience Design. He has won prizes, lectured and taught widely, given a TEDxtalk, and was once hired by German television to kidnap an American skateboarding champion. His book on Experience Design was published by _{Yale University} Press in 2023.

‍AYDEN LEROUX is the Co-Director of Odyssey Works and Co-Founder of the Experience Design Certificate Program. An advocate of interdisciplinary and genre-defying creative work, she holds art and writing degrees with extraordinarily long titles from New York University and University of California San Diego. She writes extensively about disability and sexuality, and her essays, fiction, and criticism have been published widely. Her praxis is informed by experience in _{artist collectives}, worker-owned cooperatives, and farming, and seeks to cultivate radical hospitality, GENEROSITY, and intimacy. When she was eight, she told her parents she wanted to dress up as a painter for Halloween. Thinking she meant house painter rather than fine art painter, they unwittingly opened a decades-long existential inquiry about the intersection of domestic life and creative practice.

SOPHIE LARSMON is an Associate Director of Odyssey Works and an Immersive Director & Experience Designer known for her unconventional theatrical productions and innovative _{audience personalization} techniques. As a London-based Creative Director she's currently developing a ground-breaking Location-Based Experience to open in 2025. Sophie previously led Any One Thing, a pioneering Immersive Theatre & Software Development company, where she _collaborated closely with Abraham on projects like 'The Book of Separation'. Her background includes stints at prestigious venues like The National Theatre and THE WEST END, alongside founding SoLar Productions, which supported emerging theatre makers. Sophie's commitment to _dramaturgy and narrative innovation shines through her diverse portfolio, spanning traditional and immersive theatre.

TAOUBA KHELIFA (Program Manager) is a creative director and communications strategist with over ten years of experience in experience design and _storytelling. She brings curiosity and exploration into her work and loves SOLVING communication challenges by designing innovative and transformative solutions. Taouba is an alumni of the 2022 Odyssey Works Experience Design Certificate Program. She is based in Canada, but her heart lives around the _world. She enjoys capturing and telling stories through photography and film.

Brooke Viegut is a narrative-driven experience designer, audience-centric theater maker, design critic, donut connoisseur, collector of silly little things, educator, and the creative lead at for.play.

Working at the intersection of play, community, ephemerality, and radical joy, their multidisciplinary approach has created work for audiences of 30 to 3,000. Past collaborators include Mailchimp/Invisible North, Tribeca X, De Niro Con, Emursive/The McKittrick Hotel (home of Sleep No More), 3D Tech Fest, RWS Global, Virgin Voyages, National Audubon Society, and Historic Hudson Valley among others.

BARB GROTH is founder and creative director of the _{Nomadic School of Wonder}, a traveling troupe of wondermakers who create “adventures in awe” rooted in nature, art, COMMUNITY and play. Barb has led creative teams at the most imaginative and iconic brands on the planet — _{Walt Disney Imagineering}, Google, Alphabet and Meow Wolf. 

ERIC CLOUGH is the founder of 212box, a multidisciplinary ARCHITECTURE and design firm known for innovative projects like the _{"Mystery on Fifth Avenue"} apartment and numerous Christian Louboutin boutiques. Educated at Washington University in St. Louis and Yale University, Clough integrates elements of architecture, product DESIGN, and _art into his transformative designs.

LAURA HALL is an artist, writer, puzzle-maker, immersive and narrative designer living in Portland, Oregon, where they create _{video games}, immersive experiences, and escape rooms. She is the author of Katamari Damacy for Boss Fight Books and Planning Your Escape for _{Simon & Schuster}.

LEA REDMOND reveals the _{extraordinary} hiding in the ordinary: a saltshaker, a penny, hand gestures, clouds. Lea creates _books, TOYS, games and small adventures that invite humans of all ages to be curious, playful, and kind.

LYNN KIANG is the Creative Director and co-founder of _Dome, an experience design studio for cultural institutions where interaction and spatial design meet. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Communication Design at the University of the Arts London. 

TASSOS STEVENS is director and ceo of Coney, an arts and social change _charity making all kinds of play to spark change. He is writing a Playbook, to which you can subscribe.