Narrative R&D for frontier research.
We don't produce one-offs. We build narrative systems — serial media, speculative worlds, and story-driven programs that compound over time and work across every audience that matters to your mission.
Fictional Twins. A speculative world where your science has already succeeded. We research your technology's future, design it as a living narrative, and use it to stress-test assumptions, reveal opportunities, and make the stakes real to everyone who needs to act.
Serial Media. Episodes, scenarios, visual worlds — video, animation, audio dramas, games, graphic novels, and interactive experiences. Not a campaign. A body of work that builds a following around where you're going.
Audience Before You Need One. The media we produce doesn't just explain what you're building. It creates the audience — investors, recruits, policymakers, the public — before you go looking for them.
What we do.
Designing
Science
Experiences
Speaking to the Harvard Library, our founder Nic DiPalma describes human-centered science communication, overcoming established perceptions with novel perspectives, and practicing narrative research in conceptual design.
The SpacetimeLabs™ Continuum
Spacetime Creative Labs LLC (dba SpacetimeLabs) officially launched in February 2016 as a design research project: Does science communication need a better UX? How can human-centered design principles help science and research communicate with the public? Can a better user experiences increase science literacy, promote curiosity, and encourage greater support for research?
Meet our advisors.
Read our manifesto.
In our time so far…
We launched a global science travel agency.
We designed a brand workshop for science entrepreneurs at the National Science Foundation.
We created a science-fiction research seminar for Harvard Research Library.
We launched an R&D design service to support science and research communications.
We produced a podcast about how to have better conversations about science.
We developed the first online scicomm marketplace.