Build worlds of possibility.
R&D for the Imagination Age.
Go from imagination to impact with greater accuracy and velocity.
Your organization is probably already engaged in world-building activities without even knowing it, which means you may be navigating complexity blindfolded.
If you practice in…
• Scenario Planning and Strategic Foresight
• Policy Analysis and Research
• Product Design and User Experience
• Innovation Labs and Accelerators
• Risk Assessment and Crisis Management
• Brand Strategy and Storytelling
• Entertainment and Media Production
…You are world-building. And you might be leaving a lot of opportunities for innovation unexplored. The biggest competitive advantage of all is a strategic imagination.
It’s the new R&D. It’s not just futurism. It’s a form of ‘temporal agility’, independent of time. Escape your chronological bias and achieve extraordinary outcomes through non-linear design across past, present, and possible.
STRATEGIC IMAGINATION
Spacetime
Sprints™
Disrupt the habits and patterns blocking you from finding breakthrough solutions.
v2.4
NARRATIVE INTELLIGENCE
Spacetime
Studios™
Design support that gives your story a world-class competitive advantage.
v1.2
WORLD-BUILDING
Spacetime
Games™
Strategic play for visionary leaders designing our futures today.
v0.9
The best way to build a better world is to build lots of worlds.
Welcome to the Imagination Age.
We help science venture firms, research institutes, and deep‑tech companies translate complexity into clarity. We reframe their strategies, design speculative futures, and craft immersive storytelling so they can engage audiences, attract funding, and advance their research.
We can help your teams move from vague ambition to clear direction. Fast. Through structured, strategic imagination, visual storytelling, and scenario simulations, we uncover hidden opportunities, align your stakeholders, and reduce risk before you invest.
We give you the clarity and momentum to act with confidence.
We work with visionaries. Like you.
”I've been so delighted to work with SpacetimeLabs on improving how I connect with others in my personal role as an author and public speaker, and how I translate science into a shared human experience. Highly recommended!”
Dr. Kimberly Arcand
Visualization Lead, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
"SpacetimeLabs has significantly helped organize my approach to new opportunities and projects. A veritable guiding light of communication!"
Dr. Paul M. Sutter
Astrophysicist / Host, Author, US Cultural Ambassador
"SpacetimeLabs helped us create an original experience that took our material further and provided us opportunity to raise funding for more content."
Chad Davis
Chief Innovation Officer
Nebraska Public Media (PBS & NPR)
”SpacetimeLabs has really helped me understand how to market science and how to market my work… incredibly sharp, perceptive, intuitive, and creative… a pleasure to work with and I look forward to continued collaboration.”
Dr. Sara ElShafie
Global Change Biologist / Science Communicator
In the multiverse of possibilities, singular futures are innovation dead-ends.
Most organizations plan for one future and get blindsided by the next. Any of these sound familiar?
Your complex ideas don’t translate.
You can’t see the blind spots in your strategy.
Your innovation team stalls or spinning in circles.
Your communication lacks emotion.
Lack of internal alignment or vision.
Experience our unique approach to map multiple plausible futures, stress-test your assumptions, and unlock new directions you didn’t know were on the table.
Working with us, your team will ‘see’ faster, communicate with radical clarity, and move forward with a confident narrative that inspires alignment, funding, and momentum.
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Experience Design | Science + Travel
From imagination to impact… What began as a communications R&D project swiftly became a science travel agency recognized by Lonely Planet®, the world's premier travel media publisher, as their Best in Travel 2019 for dark sky tours.
ASTRO.TOURS was a partnership with astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author Paul M. Sutter with a vision to bring people closer to the cosmos by experiencing its majesty from some of the most spectacular places on our planet.
Explore these worlds.
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