where mindfulness meets creativity.
where mindfulness meets creativity.
Scenic Design Futures is a research, strategy, and design firm building dynamic insight for next generation leaders in layered landscapes of environment, technology, and human potential. Leading by listening, we build collective intelligence through systems thinking, interdisciplinary research, and reimagining shared futures. Our portfolio also includes FreshAIR Lab and OFFLINE by Design.
We love working with growth-minded teams, communities, and organizations to cultivate seeds of possibility. Our dynamic approach is tailored to every partner, every season, and every setting, building grounded clarity and shared purpose through roundtable workshops, transformational experiences, and generative exchange.
We find that the most impactful ideas tend to emerge in environments that reinvigorate our sense of possibility. We design our engagements around deep listening, mindful attention, and open dialogue. When we come together around tables that enable collective flow states, the ideas begin to crystallize, and our momentum grows on- and off-line.
Get in touch to learn more about our futures practice and advisory: adaptive leadership, creative evolution, and ecodiplomacy for regenerative futures. Let's get curious and courageous about the horizons ahead.
Here's to people + planet breathing together.
—Cecelia Schoening, Founder + Design Futurist
Poster Presentation Award
FreshAIR Framework for Creative Wayfinding,
Collective Intelligence, and Mindful Innovation - offering a new methodology bridging arts + science
Aesthetics 2025 | Switzerland
Sponsored by ETH Zürich Social Brain Sciences Lab in partnership with Congressi Franscini and Monte Verità
City of Austin ADA Grant Recipient
Immersive-Inclusive Experience for the Deaf / HoH community, using analog cymatics design to visualize music in real time
SXSW 2025 | Austin, Texas
Sponsored by City of Austin, hosted by Kanvas X Vogue in partnership with AmpSpot and KMFA Classical Radio
6th Annual Art Show with AST
Hosted a public Sunday Salon and Jazz Lounge featuring an open art gallery, creative exchange, and live music for an intergenerational audience
Austin Studio Tour | Austin, Texas
Sponsored by Almost Real Things, in partnership with East End Ballroom, Shades of Blue, and Mistine Floral