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Experience Design Weekend Intensives

Learn the basics of experience design and jump into designing a powerful experience. Change your way of working forever!

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What this intensive is

This is a two-day, hands-on experience design course. It combines Odyssey Works' core curriculum: empathy and experience design, diagramming, and making meaning into one intensive program.

Day 01
The Basics of Experience Design

      On day 1 we will learn the basics of experience design: empathy, worldbuilding, diagramming and making meaning.

Day 02
Creating the Experience

      On day 2 we will create a powerful experience for one other attendee in the class. The weekend will be intense, perspective-altering, deeply personal, and lots of fun.

You leave with a permanently changed way of thinking about what you make.

Who This Is For

This intensive is for designers, artists, producers, educators, and makers who want to build more intentional, human-centered experiences. No prior experience design background required.

What you will learn: 

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EMPATHY AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN

How to center an audience member so deeply that the experience reshapes them.

DIAGRAMMING

How to map the architecture of an experience before you build it.

MAKING MEANING

How to move people — not just entertain them.

THE METHOD

For the past 25 years, artist collective and educational institution Odyssey Works has been creating transformative experiences for small audiences. This intensive provides a behind-the-curtain perspective into their groundbreaking signature design process that has made them a household name in the immersive and experiential scene

Upcoming

Experience Design Weekend Intensive - New York

August 08-09, 2026

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Experience Design Weekend Intensive - CDMX

August 15-16, 2026

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“The Odyssey Works Experience Design Intensive...was probably the most compact, relevant, valuable professional development training I’ve done in my life (and I’ve done quite a few).”

“The workshop was AMAZING! All week students came to me to say that the workshop had opened up their thinking about their thesis work. The attention from Abe and Ayden was thoughtful, kind, informed, and fresh.”

“Attended an @OdysseyWorks workshop last weekend and it was the best team building experience I’ve ever had. #saynototrustfalls”

KATIE GREEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, TWIN ALCHEMY

ELLEN LUPTON, CURATOR AT COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM AND DIRECTOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN DEPARTMENT AT MICA

KEVIN HALE, PARTNER, Y COMBINATOR

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