future architecture in practice

An immersive experience to catalyze the public imagination

beaming is helping design the five year vision and plan for touring the Lumisphere around the globe to inspire the public imagination, allowing them to dream aided by tech. Its an opportunity to build new infrastructure for change, designing the lived experience on the ground in each city with a view toward complementing and drawing attention to the great work already happening there, linking participants to projects on the ground, while capturing the voices of these residents of the future in a living archive of wisdom and practice. The 5 year tour plans to culminate in events at the UN and COP 30. Partners include Visions 2030 the originator, Minds Over Matter Media, Institute For the Future and beaming.

bringing nature to nature deficit environments like prisons, emergency rooms & critical care units

A project to literally bring nature and natural systems into emergency rooms and critical care units across the globe in partnership with the 50,000 member Society of Critical Care Professionals, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sorenson Institute and beaming. An initial academic review of prior work in the field revealed nearly a 100 interventions includging VR, light therapy, nature sounds and aromatherapy to improve patient outcomes, their families as well as the hospital staff supporting them. In Phase II we will world build the future of these settings and in Phase III prototype these environments in three hospitals testing which areas of health/recovery that these interventions can best affect, the health outcomes and the economic benefits from these interventions.

Reinventing primary healthcare starting with youth mental health

The Integrated Youth behavioral health into Primary Care Initiative is a new project in the Health Future Lab’s portfolio, focusing on improving youth mental health in San Mateo County. The proposition: to develop an integrated system—co-designed with youth—that places an integrated behavioral health primary care team at its center and surrounds it with sports-led and arts-led community programs - designed through world building. These community-based activities will serve as both early detection points for emerging behavioral health needs and pathways for healing and connection. Designed specifically for youth on Medi-Cal (Medicaid), the system will be deployed in San Mateo County.

preventing farmer suicide through the feminization of agriculture in India

beaming worked with Vishwakarma University in Pune, India to address the feminization of climate-smart agriculture in zone of Maharashtra where farmer suicides were wiping our almost 40% of male farmers in certain villages. The challenge was to Understand and appreciate the culture, beliefs, and behaviors of the local community, co-create a platform for innovations to thrive, assess the rural infrastructure, capability, and community dynamics to honor and empower the women while catalyzing capital and business process /commercialization of lead options. Much work is left to be done.

Fast and trustworthy narrative intelligence

- capturing the wisdom of lived experience at scale leveraging AI

Mark is future architect for Amoofy, a platform for capturing lived experience through the human voice at scale integrating ethnographic research and AI. Each participant responds periodically to short, guided prompts via voice—reflecting on progress, challenges, and moments of transformation, or whatever insights community or business leaders seek. 

Amoofy’s platform transcribes, analyzes, and synthesizes these recordings in real time, surfacing patterns in emotion, trust, and learning across hundreds of stories. 

The result: a living knowledge base and archive to improve people’s lives. In Mexico we helped capture over 2,000 stories from farmers like these.

Creating a local supply chain of critical materials in the midwest

Working with the Vice Chancellor of Research, beaming is helping generate financial resources for the project as it awaits news from the NSF as a finalist for $160 million in funding. This is a project that will reshape the way comprehensive systems change can happen with local community as a co-designer leveraging world building to imagine workforce development, university research and development, while ensuring the region and country has local sources of critical materials for an electric future.