DMSN LAB

Image of the Milky Way Observed by MeerKat Radio Telescope, South Africa, 2023. Credit: I. Heywood, SARAO.

POETIC WORLDBUILDING TOWARD DIMENSIONAL INTELLIGENCE

How can multisensosry environments expand the frontier of human experience?

DMSN (Dimension) Lab develops environments as apparatuses for expanded consciousness and embodied intelligence. Rooted in poetic worldbuilding, we transform built and natural environments into poetic milieux where site-responsive installation, experimental sound, olfactory activation, performative happenings, and digital systems converge symphonically toward cultivating higher states of spiritual intelligence. Working at the intersection of expanded consciousness, multisensory design, spatial research, and emerging technology, we explore how immersive environments reshape human experience and foster greater planetary care and intelligence. 

Our work unfolds across three dimensions:

  1. Research the phenomenological conditions that foster expanded states of consciousness;

  2. Develop frameworks for environments conceived as epistemological sites toward greater dimensional intelligence;

  3. Collaborate with artists, technologists, and institutions to translate these inquiries into experiential happenings and larger cultural discourse.

At the core is a conviction that extending the frontier of human experience has become a critical existential inquiry. DMSN Lab approaches this through artistic experimentation and program development, creating site-responsive environments that cultivate greater dimensional intelligence beyond aesthetic experience.

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Teshima Art Museum
Janet Echelman 1.8 Renwick
Latifa Echakhch The Concert
Julian Charrière: Erratic, SFMOMA
Lumi Shala at Alchemy Yoga Center

Genealogies of Experiential Technologies

I Psychoactive / Ingestive

Substances that are plant-based, mycelial, or synthetic.

II Meditative / Somatic

Practices of mindfulness, energy work, body work, breathwork, and contemporary embodied techniques geared toward the nervous system.

III Ritualistic / Aesthetic

Collective happenings mobilizing various registers of movement, sound, visuals, scent, etc. to fostered an expanded state of consciousness. From shamanic drumming to techno raves. From indigenous ceremonies to contemporary post-medium happenings.

DMSN Lab is grounded in the third lineage: ritualistic-aesthetic technology.

While drawing conceptual resonance from psychoactive, somatic, and meditative traditions and teachings, the Lab experiments with visual art, sound, moving image, scent, performance, to extend and continue this long-standing lineage of human endeavor.

Photo by Anne Nygård

What We Create

Reframing the creative ecosystem from object-based display toward experience-led environments and happenings.

    • Design and production of immersive events, exhibitions, and site-specific environments

    • Spatial concept development, including layouts, flow, and audience experience

    • Integration of light, sound, material, and digital elements into cohesive environments

    • End-to-end development of conferences, salons, and public programs

    • Session design, narrative structuring, and speaker preparation

    • Curation of interdisciplinary programming across art, technology, and culture

    • Development of spatial concepts through CAD, maquettes, and material testing

    • Experimental prototyping of immersive formats and environments

    • Site-based research and concept studies for future installations and activations

    • Translation of complex ideas into audience-facing experiences

    • Development of messaging frameworks for events and programs

    • Alignment of content, space, and audience journey

    • Collaboration with artists, architects, and designers on spatial projects

    • Advisory on exhibition development, site-specific commissions, and installations

    • Partnership development across cultural institutions and emerging tech contexts

    • Early-stage concept creation for experiential initiatives and brand activations

    • Development of thematic frameworks and spatial narratives

    • Direction of visual language and experiential identity