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Human Nature OdysseyWorldbuilding and Experience Design for Society with Abraham BuricksonCivilization is an interactive immersive experience. Worldbuilding isn't just for sci-fi and fantasy, but how we can change our society. Abraham Burickson, co-founder of Odyssey Works—an organization dedicated to crafting personalized, immersive experiences—has long been captivated by the transformative power of design. Whether in the structure of a building or the verses of a poem, he explores how these creations shape our perceptions and interactions with the world. In his latest book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto Abraham encourages us to envision societal change as a collective act of worldbuilding. Join us as we ex...
2024-06-1347 min
The IntellectualWhy We Should Stop Designing Things (And Start Designing Experiences) Podcast: Yale University Press Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Why We Should Stop Designing Things (And Start Designing Experiences)Pub date: 2023-11-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAbraham Burickson on his New Book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Yale University Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
2023-11-1439 min
Tangents by Out of ArchitectureThe Power of Designing Experiences with Odyssey Works’ Abraham BuricksonIn this engrossing discussion, Abraham Burickson elaborates on how his journey in the world of architecture led him to develop the concept of experience design. Having worked in various architecture firms and conducted research, Abraham discovered a gap between the promise of architecture and its practice. From tangible architectural projects to uniquely curated experiences called Odyssey Works, Abraham redefines the conventional understanding of architecture. Discussing his one-person tailored experiences approach, Abraham delves into the philosophy behind embracing a client's life and empathizing with their reality to create designs that re...
2023-11-0745 min
Yale University Press PodcastWhy We Should Stop Designing Things (And Start Designing Experiences)Abraham Burickson on his New Book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto.
2023-11-0339 min
YaleUniversityWhy We Should Stop Designing Things (And Start Designing Experiences)Abraham Burickson on his New Book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto.
2023-11-0339 min
Work For HumansExperience Design: The Best Methodology for Creating More Meaningful Work | Abraham BuricksonMany products are made by people but often don't consider human needs. The chair you're sitting on might not fit you well or suit your work habits and office setup. The same issue applies to how we approach work.Can a manager act as an experience designer to improve productivity, satisfaction, and well-being in the workplace? Is it practical and possible? Abraham Burickson, a design expert with over 20 years of experience, thinks so. He wants to change the way we think about design to create new possibilities in the workplace and beyond.Abraham Burickson is...
2023-10-311h 14
Future of StoryTelling (FoST)The Craft of Experience Design — Abraham BuricksonExperience designers are working on turning the innate knowledge of human experience into a craft. Abraham Burickson's forthcoming book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto, distills his learnings as one of the foremost experts in this field into a practical handbook for everyone who wants to create memorable, transformative experiences.For additional links, information, and more, visit our website.--© 2023 Future of StoryTelling, Corp.Produced by Future of StoryTelling, Corp.124 West 13th StreetNew York, NY 10011Founder an...
2023-10-1949 min
The Deep DiveEpisode 166: The World of Experience Design w/ Abraham BuricksonPhilip spends time with Abraham Burickson, designer, teacher, and consultant. He is the author of the new book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto. In their conversation, they discuss the nature of experiences and how design plays an essential role in elevating what we know of experience(s)
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop:
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They Are Built – Stewart Brand
Abrahaml’s Drop:
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and...
2023-10-1255 min
Outside InA Vanishing PointIn a world full of mass produced objects and experiences, designed for anyone and everyone, Abraham Burickson designs for someone. As co-founder of Odyssey Works, he has been experimenting with a highly bespoke form of design that breaks the mold. From performances made for an audience of one, to homes designed for who you want to become, Abe’s work is a vanishing point for empathetic experience design.
2022-01-141h 29
The No Proscenium PodcastThe All-New: Walking The Virtual BurnThis week on the show:We walk the digital playa of BRCvr and reflect on Burning Man 2020 with an eye towards the 2021 Virtual Burn. [4:30]Odyssey Works' Abraham Burickson & Ayden LeRoux tell us about their new Experience Design Certificate Program. [18:00]Emma Buttin, New Media officer of the French Embassy in the United States tells us about the upcoming Digital Playgrounds program, which seeks to bring French and American XR creators together in New York this Fall. [37:10]Plus Headlines [1:14], Immersive 101 [12:45]; The Pick of the Week [32:12]. Hosted on Acast...
2021-08-2054 min
Open Div SummitExperience Design for Transformation with Ayden LeRoux and Abraham BuricksonJoin us for a conversation with Abraham Burickson, the co-founder and Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, an interdisciplinary performance group that makes bespoke performances for one-person audiences, and Ayden LeRoux, the Assistant Director of Odyssey Works and the author of two books related to their work, Isolation and Amazement (Samsara Press, 2013), and Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) co-authored with Burickson.
2021-02-2645 min
Strippers and SagesAyden LeRoux on the Aesthetics & Fragility of the BodyAyden LeRoux is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, critic, and educator whose work explores embodiment, eroticism, and illness, in order to complicate narratives about gender, sexuality, and family structures. Her essays, fiction, and translation have been published in Guernica, Catapult, Electric Lit, Los Angeles Review of Books, Cosmonauts Avenue, Palimpsest, edibleManhattan, and Alchemy, among others. She is the Assistant Director of Odyssey Works, a collaborative performance group, and the author of Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One (co-written with Abraham Burickson, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) and Isolation and Amazement (Samsara Press, 2013). Their work has been features in The...
2020-10-061h 13
ArtrovertedCrafting Performances for an Audience of One: Abraham Burickson, Co-Founder + Artistic Director, Odyssey WorksAbraham Burickson Episode 3 Show NotesOur conversation was taped on May 29, 2020.In this episode, I speak Abraham Burickson the co-founder and artistic director of Odyssey Works. An organization that designs immersive experiences for an audience of one that’s interdisciplinary, and poised on the boundary between art and life.In our conversation, we discuss the challenges of crafting and executing Odysseys, the power of performance art, and the future of individualized immersive experiences in the age of zoom. Trained as an architect of buildings, Abraham translates his experience into bei...
2020-08-281h 27
The No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 229 - Odyssey WorksThis week we've got a special episode as Michaela Holland (NoPro NYC social correspondent) guest hosts a conversation with Abraham Burickson of Odyssey Works. Michaela has attended the company's Master Classes in the past, and she and Abraham talk about that and dive into the ideas that drive the company, which has been making cutting edge work since 2001. Speaking of: the deadline for the call participants for the next Odyssey is Jan. 5th, 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-12-241h 18
The Heart Burn, with Doug HarrisonAbraham Burickson Designs Experiences for an Audience of One Person.Abraham Burickson is the Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, a unique art collaboration that produces transformational artistic experiences for the one person on whom they are based. Abe has passionate and thoughtful words on the primacy of experience over form, the vocation of an Artist, and experiencing "Flow"
Abe Burickson and his Asst. Director will be in Austin October 12-13
More info Here: Odyssey Works Design Intensive Austin
http://www.odysseyworks.org.
and. http://www.abrahamburickson.com
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird By Wallace Stevens
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2019-08-311h 02
Scratching the Surface32. Abraham BuricksonIn the second episode of my miniseries interviewing my professors and advisors from MICA, I talk to my writing professor, Abraham Burickson. In addition to teaching writing at MICA, Abe is also an architect, poet, and performance artist who runs Odyssey Works, a performance group that creates durational performances for audiences of one. In this conversation, Abe and I talk about his background the relationship between design, writing, and performance, design fictions, and creating experiences.
2017-06-141h 00
ArchinectOne-to-One #34 with Abraham Burickson, founder of the immersive theater company, Odyssey WorksIn the spring of 2015, we ran a Working Out of the Box feature with Abraham Burickson, the practicing architect who founded Odyssey Works—a theater company that produces performances for an audience of one, often lasting days. Participants are extensively researched and the performances are rigorously planned, so that the whole thing unfolds before them spontaneously, as they move about the world.
To Burickson, theater and architecture are one and the same—their objective is to immerse the audience, and make them feel something. And in preparation for this month’s theme of Games, it's impossible not to see Odyssey Works...
2016-08-1625 min
Archinect Sessions One-to-One34 – architect and experimental theater founder Abraham BuricksonIn the spring of 2015, we ran a Working Out of the Box feature with Abraham Burickson, the practicing architect who founded Odyssey Works—a theater company that produces performances for an audience of one, often lasting days. Participants are extensively researched and the performances are rigorously planned, so that the whole thing unfolds before them spontaneously, as they move about the world. To Burickson, theater and architecture are one and the same—their objective is to immerse the audience, and make them feel something. And in preparation for this month's theme of Games, it's impossible not to see...
2016-08-1625 min
State of the HumanHow to Give (full episode)This week on our show, four stories of giving. First, it's a story about a charity fundraiser, and the woman who comes to question why fundraisers even exist. Then it's the story of a t-shirt entrepreneur's attempt to send one million shirts to Africa. Third, it's two interviews with people who had to decide if they were willing to donate bone marrow. Last, the story of Odyssey Works, a group of artists that create works of art for a single person.
Producer: Charlie Mintz
Featuring: Rachel Hamburg, Will Rogers, Jason Sadler, Saundra Schimmelpfennig, TMS Ruge, Nick Hartley, Mandeep Gill, Kristina...
2014-02-131h 01