WXO - World Experience Organization

The WXO was really proud to support Experience UK with their Experience On Main Street Summit yesterday This panel on #placemaking was one of the highlights Hannah Harris shared fascinating insights & POV on #placemaking in Plymouth - ideas that we think could benefit high streets / main streets everywhere Some of her ideas reminded us of April Soetarman's genius work on "emotional bureaucracy" Because what if, instead of just signposts that tell people WHERE TO GO, we signposts that nudge people HOW TO FEEL? We've asked Hannah to come share in a WXO Campfire - we're sure you'll get a lot from this Jaime Izurieta Varea #futureofcities #cities #urbandesign

🧘♀️ How might you be more present... and what might this mean for the experiences you create? 🔥 Having graced the stage and hosted an intimate conversation parlour at the World Experience Summit, philosopher-provocateur Enrique Enriquez returns to the #WXOCampfire to explore the Hidden Secrets of Everything Everywhere. In anticipation, think clearly of an image that haunts you, whether when you are awake or in your dreams. Something you continually encounter in reality, something you remember from a dream that then reappears in daily life... WXO Members can RSVP now via the Campfire Calendar – and if you're not yet a member, don't miss out on our next season: applications are open now!

🌉 How do you transition people between different phases of the same experience? 🔥 This is the question WXO Member Monica Matei recently posted in our community platform, where all the best discussions start. We’ve talked a lot about how to help people cross the threshold into an experience and return to the real world, but there’s less focus on how to move them through it. So for our next #WXOCampfire, you’re invited to help us co-create an answer to the challenge of how to “cleanse the palate” between spaces, stages or scenes. We’ve done these Open Campfires inspired by community questions before with fascinating results – see our discussion about The Timeline For Transformation, sparked by a question from Jasmin Jodry. WXO Members can RSVP now via the Campfire Calendar – and if you're not yet a member, don't miss out on our next season: applications are open now!

🎭 Here's how you trip the light fantastic ✨ It's been three weeks since we celebrated the World Experience Summit with a closing party at New York's pioneering immersive art space, ARTECHOUSE. We were dazzled by the swooping, shifting, kaleidoscopic, psychedelic dreamscape of the Aṣẹ: Afro Frequencies exhibit. Watch out for a Campfire with ARTECHOUSE coming soon, where we'll dive into the making of this immersive success story... Until then, here are a few of our favourite shots – and a survivors' photo from the end of the night! – that capture the vibe:

Get your experiential fix with our 21 Extraordinary Experiences for July 2024 🛝 There's an emphasis on the power of play in this month's edit – as well as the Olympic Games, Euros and Wimbledon, we take a look at the new launches using comedy, gaming and interactivity to appeal to children and big kids alike. Here's the full list: 21. EDEN at Illuminate Adelaide (flora&faunavisions ) – Adelaide 20. SwellSpa (Swell Studio) - Online 19. Mastery: Quantum Sound (L-Acoustics / EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney)) - London 18. Sweet Dreams (MARSHMALLOW LASER FEAST) - Manchester 17. DreamWorks Land (DreamWorks Animation / Universal Studios Florida Production Group) - Florida 16. The Oz Escape (Questo) - Vancouver 15. Le Space (Hyundai Futurenet) - South Korea 14. Entheon (Illusionaries) - London 13. Poozeum - Arizona 12. Paris Summer Festival - Paris 11. Doloris (KARMANOIA) - The Netherlands 10. The Paddington Bear Experience (Immersive Octopus / The Path Entertainment Group) - London 9. Another World VR - New Orleans 8. Witness Her: Naked Fashion Show - Melbourne 7. Royal Railway - Utopia Station (Royal Caribbean Group) - The Ocean 6. Love Between Fairy And Devil (iQIYI.com Dreamverse Studio) - Macau 5. When Night Comes (Broad Encounters Productions) - Melbourne 4. Lore of Loverboy (Somerset House) - London 3. Fantasy Springs (The Walt Disney Company SeaPark) - Tokyo 2. teamLab Borderless Jeddah (teamLab Inc. / BeWunder ) - Jeddah 1. 2024 Olympic Games - Paris Which will you be going to (or have already)? What have we missed? Let us know in the comments below (where you'll also find a link to the full article) 👇 #experiences #experienceeconomy #wxo #worldexperienceorganization #experiencedesign #experiencetrends #immersiveexperiences #extraordinaryexperiences

We want to give a big shout-out to our event partner, The Google Experience Institute / Xi, for bringing two stand-out experiences to this year's World Experience Summit: 1. 🌅 A dreamlike collective experience by Paul Bulencea and collective inviting participants to reflect on The Nature of Experience Design – both how our "modern crisis of comfort" might hinder our relationship with the natural world, and how we might reconnect to it. 2. 🕊️ An opening address and intimate conversation parlour with philosopher-provocateur Enrique Enriquez exploring The Hidden Secrets of Everything Everywhere – how presence is the beginning of every experience, and how we can be more present in the world. Thanks to them and Google Xi for posing questions that challenge and inspire us to consider how we might build a more sustainable, inclusive and connected future together through experiences. We'd love to hear what questions and reflections each session inspired in you – let us know in the comments below... 👇

🥳 The official photos from this year's World Experience Summit are here! From disco balls to bubble guns, collective dance parties to spectacular immersive art, we think they express the collective effervescence, joy, and weirdness of the event perfectly. If you were there, head to the World Experience Summit space on our community platform to see them all and share your favourites using #WXS24. We'll be sharing more here soon – here are a few of our favourite community shots for starters:

✨ Want to tell stories like a Disney scriptwriter? 🔥 Then join us for this week's WXO Campfire, when story fairy godmother Alice Fairfax – SVP Ideation Experience Design for MQDC and scriptwriter for Disney Event Group – will share 3 frameworks to forever change the way you communicate: 1. 📘 Story Formula: how to train nonprofit leaders, small business leaders, sponsors and C-suite in the purpose and effectiveness of story. 2. 🐭 Job over Task: how Disney trains their frontline cast members and how you can do the same for your frontline staff and volunteers. 3. 🫂 Audience Integration: how to leave room for your audience and solicit their response within the story. WXO Members can RSVP now via the Campfire Calendar – and if you're not yet a member, don't miss out on our next season: applications are open now!

🌆 We're passionate believers in the power of experiences to revitalise our High Streets & Main Streets. ⚓️ From Heather Gallagher M.Sc.'s Venue Dating Show at our recent Summit to Adam Scott's Campfire on How Experience Design Will Save Our Cities, it's an exciting time for "experience anchors". 🇬🇧 And if you share our belief: the Experience on Main Street Conference, on July 10 in London, is hosting a day dedicated to transforming spaces and places on high streets, in shopping malls and downtown areas. 🎟️ The WXO community can get 10% off the ticket price with the special code WXOEOMS24 – and if you buy tickets before midnight tomorrow, Friday June 28, you can still get their Early Bird rate! 👇For more info and to buy tickets, check the link in the comments below!

🤡 How do you use humor to create community? 🤡 What's the difference between laughing with vs laughing at in how people at your event connect? Why is the inside joke an ace unifier of your group? How can you use these two tools to create a "you had to be there" vibe to help grow your community? Performance Artist Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace, will share her insights at today's WXO PlayLab.