The New Frame: About

Come experience the work of 19 trailblazing experience designers from around the world. The third cohort of the Experience Design Certificate Program has spent the past year reimagining death rituals, community action, creative processes, reproductive justice, and responses to climate catastrophe. These unique interactive projects span 1-on-1 performance, collaborative cooking games, portraiture experiences, and interactive installation. Each piece is an invitation to cross the threshold into a new way of experiencing the world.

Led by Odyssey Works, the internationally-acclaimed group which has expanded the notion of experience design and famously made performances for an audience of one for more than two decades, the artists and designers of The New Frame will invite you to rethink the possibilities of design.

Featuring work by: Natalie Whelan ● Kori Martodam ● Jackie Moy ● Marc Chun ● Christian Howard ● Bonnie Gregory ● Sparks ● Karmisha Reeb ● Tara Odorizzi ● Simon Lyshon ● Zainab Azhar ● Steven Boudreau ● Smadar Krampf ● Joel Grinke ● Chris Sallquist ● Letícia Schuelter de Lima ● Rodrigo Correia ● Sara Behbakht ● Joni Chan

Please plan to arrive fifteen minutes prior to your first scheduled experience to check in. Many of these experiences have limited capacities which you can learn more about and reserve by signing up for Sched. Please select two experiences to register for at this point on Sched. You will be able to sign up for more experiences upon arrival.

All guests are welcome to attend a talk on retreat design from 2:00 - 2:30pm and a cocktail reception from 5-6 pm.
Sessions will take place in both 301 and 305 Ten Eyck Street. Please check your schedule to find the location of each session.

The New Frame 2024 is a collection of projects from the students of the Odyssey Works Experience Design Certificate Program

The Experience Design Certificate Program from Odyssey Works is a 10-month, low-residency program designed to transform you into a cutting-edge designer of powerful experiences. The program offers personalized education with mentorship, feedback, and community building. It provides a broadly applicable and rigorous design methodology that equips students with the tools they need to create innovative experiences.

This is the third year of the Certificate Program and of the New Frame. If you'd like to know more about Odyssey Works or how we are working across disciplines to leverage the power of experience design, Check out our website, pick up our first book (Odyssey Works, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), about our twenty years of making experiences for very small audiences, or our second book (Experience Design, Yale University Press, 2023) about the principles of transformational experience design. A limited number of these books will be available for purchase at The New Frame.

All guests are welcome to attend a talk on retreat design from 1:30 - 2:30pm and a cocktail reception from 5-6 pm.
Please plan to arrive fifteen minutes prior to your first scheduled experience to check in.