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I want to talk to you about something.
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though I’m not sure
why you’re here.
Though I’m not sure why you’re here.
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I’m assuming it’s because you want to know more about what I do
I’m assuming it’s because you want to know more about what I do
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who the heck is this guy?
Who the heck is this guy?
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I can summarize
I can summarize
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I'm an experience designer
I'm an experience designer
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I design experiences for small audiences
I design experiences for small audiences
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I teach in various contexts
I teach in various contexts
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mostly out in the world
mostly out in the world
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I run the Experience Design Certificate Program with Ayden LeRoux
I run an experience design certificate program with Ayden LeRoux
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You can check that out here if you wantor keep tapping
You can check that out here if you want or keep tapping
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this is my happy place
This is my happy place
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I design houses
I design houses
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(in kind of an unusual way)
(in kind of an unusual way)
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and I write books
and I write books
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like this one
Like this one
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I mean, I really do want you to.
Go ahead!
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if you’ve made it this far you’re probably my target audience.
Last chance.
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well, this is awkward
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you're a target
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who designed this relationship?
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could we try a less hunter-prey approach to sharing ideas?
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why don't we go for a walk instead
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it will take just a few minutes
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I want to talk to you about the design of experience
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I think I mentioned I was trained as an architect?
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I love looking at pictures of beautiful buildings
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one day I visited this building in Istanbul
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I had to wash my hands before entering
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and take off my shoes
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inside most people were sitting and kneeling
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these actions put me in the mind of the majesty of the world
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I hadn’t realized when looking at all the pretty pictures that the real design was the Experience
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Majesty
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a few weeks later I climbed a stone tower
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to find an ancient frescoed chapel high in the air
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Wonder
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suddenly it was so obvious: buildings were not things
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they were containers for experience:
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The connections between ideas
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The grandeur of creativity
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Home
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later, I went to live in the Amazon
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to learn about Shuar architecture
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it quickly became clear
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that I couldn’t be a real human
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without seeking power from the spirits in the waterfalls
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because that was how things worked in the Shuar world
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I don’t believe in the spirits in the waterfalls
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but after two days hiking through the jungle
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that didn’t much matter
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I was in their world. those spirits promised to empower me or kill me
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Terror
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the experience changed me
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moving from world to world does that
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each world offers a different self
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a different possibility of being
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Athlete
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Devotee
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Intellectual
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such grand experience designs
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if you want to come for a real walk with me sometime
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I can tell you more stories
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you could reciprocate with your own
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such an incredible experience, walking with a friend
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The camaraderie of the fellow traveler
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I met some fellow travelers a long time ago
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and we started this thing called Odyssey Works
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we make enormous experiences for tiny audiences
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1-person audiences
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The embrace of community
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The shock of the new
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The perfectly prepared moment
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Transformation
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it’s been a long experiment in what happens
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when you design the experience instead of the thing
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the armies of those I love engirth me
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(that’s Whitman)
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experience design seems a pretty new field
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but it has deep roots
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in art and performance
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in architecture
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in community building
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in religion
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in education
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in storytelling
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in your birthday parties
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new technologies can open our eyes to experiential possibilities
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but so can old ones
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because, of course, experience design is not about things
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and that means cutting out the middleman
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middlething?
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and thinking first about the experience
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Restoration
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Absurdity
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The birth of the visionary
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I’m continually blown away by the transformative capacity of experience design
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so simple. so ethically charged
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design for the effect you wish to have
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it's changed my practice
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has it changed yours?
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would you like it to?
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it’s pretty much my mission these days to help people with that
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hence the books, the Certificate Program, the architecture, the consulting...
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I’d love to know what you’re up to
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drop me a line (you know, by clickingtapping my name above)
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or maybe we can go for a real walk sometime
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oh by the way
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this walk was written by me
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and built by Victor Carinha
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and inspired by the work of Vincent Morisset on motto.io
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