THE PSYCHEDELICS DESIGN SANDBOX
home for experiments
inspiration
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
position
the sandbox
We are an active community responding to the multifaceted nature of today’s global challenges. The Sandbox unfolds as highly collaborative, provocative, experiential, and imaginative research-and-design journeys. Our questions often challenge dominant assumptions in cultural and economic systems—engaging complexity rather than reducing it.
Through partnerships with institutions, studios, designers, and artists, we explore how psychedelics can reconfigure creativity and design. Together, we prototype insights, develop speculative practices, and create living probes that test what becomes possible when imagination, material systems, and more-than-human intelligence converge.
The Sandbox is where the mystical, curiosity and play meet applied imagination. The knowledge generated here inspires the ongoing evolution of Psychedelics Design—sparking new myths, regenerative protocols, and cultural futures in motion.
we are currently asking
“Can we help move the field from rote application towards a richer, more transformative practice?”
Psychedelics Design: Towards a New School of Practice
We continue to draft a psychedelic design philosophy rooted in psychedelic practice—mindful, intentional, and expansive approaches to creativity. From this foundation, we are articulate guiding principles for how design meets complexity and deepens connection.
These guiding principles are living narratives—probes to be tested, adapted, and reimagined across different contexts. As our work unfolds, we will continue to refine and reframe them through practice, reflection, and dialogue. We invite critique and collaboration to evolve this shared inquiry.
Beyond Linear Thinking
→ Towards Expanded Consciousness
From fixed, rational problem-solving to fluid states of perception that embrace ambiguity, multiplicity, and emergence.
Beyond Pure Rationality
→ Towards Intuitive Creativity
From privileging logic alone to integrating subconscious insight, intuition, and embodied knowing in the creative process.
Beyond Isolation
→ Towards Interconnectedness
From designing in silos to recognizing entanglement with ecological, cultural,
and more-than-human systems.
Beyond Static Outputs
→ Towards Transformation & Growth
From design as fixed deliverables to design as living processes that catalyze adaptation, healing, and evolution.
psychedelics & creative process research study
From February 2024 to February 2026, we’re running the world’s first global design research study on psychedelics and creativity. We want to know: how do psychedelic experiences actually shape the way we bring ideas to life?
It’s 14 quick questions. Independent. Anonymous. Five minutes of your time. In return, you’ll be contributing to a one-of-a-kind dataset that will be shared openly with the creative community worldwide.
Help us map the future of design under the influence — and see what the collective imagination looks like when the data drops.
14 questions
Anonymous
5 minutes
We collaborate with a global collective of interdisciplinary creatives and organisations—design studios, agencies, institutions, and brands—on a project basis, bringing diverse perspectives, research, and lived experience to each challenge and expanding how we imagine design, culture, and regenerative futures.