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The Experience Bundle
A COMPREHENSIVE gateway into the art of experience design, merging cutting-edge theory, transformative practices, and access to an EVOLVING library of creative experiences. Includes: Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto, Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One, and Membership to the Library of Experiences.
Experience Design, A Participatory Manifesto
An engaging introduction to the CUTTING-EDGE discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product design, gaming, exhibition design, and performance.
What does it mean to design experiences? Traditional design practices invite us to design things, and to use those things to solve problems. But experience is not a problem; it is life. Experience designers engage with unpredictability and the unknown, partnering with their audiences to generate possibility and relationality. Experience designers create worlds, craft narratives that leave the page and enter people’s lives, and structure transformation. Broadly interdisciplinary and deeply human, experience design is a practice that at once embraces new technologies and offers a balm for our disconnected lives.
Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One
We believe that art can be MEANINGFUL. We believe that it can elevate the lives of everyone involved. We believe that every person in this world has the right to be brought to their knees by BEAUTY, and we’ve dedicated our lives to figuring out how. This book is the culmination of our research.
Lifetime Membership to the Library of Experiences
Our ongoing project, the LIBRARY OF EXPERIENCES, is a curated online catalog with sets of instructions for creating experiences of wonder and beauty for yourself or others. It is regularly updated, and experiences are added. Your membership comes with an eBook of our publication Isolation and Amazement and our a hard copy of Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One. Consider sending as a physical library card in a gift envelope.
Isolation and Amazement: Documents from Odyssey Works' 2012 Performance The Map is Not the Territory
ISOLATION AND AMAZEMENT offers insight into the contemporary art practice of Odyssey Works, a group that probes the relationship between audience and artist by making DEEPLY affective work for an audience of one. This artist's book documents and TRACES the experience of the participant, Carl Collins, with photos, drawings and writings from the 2012 production The Map is Not the Territory. Providing an intimate cross-section of the Odyssey, it highlights both the ephemeral and material aspects of the production. The participant's own PERSPECTIVE alongside reflections by the artists involved offer rare insight into the theoretical and personal aspects of the work.
Written by Ayden LeRoux, with contributions by Abraham Burickson. Designed by Sasha Wizansky. Published by Samasara Press, 2012.
The resounding message—sorely needed at a time when art is being CONDEMNED as irrelevant—is that not only can we live more deeply meaningful lives, but that art can have a potent role in this TRANSFORMATION."