Advancing human creativity
Let curiosity lead the way
Miami · 2026
Our theory of change
When people discover they are and can be creative, and practice it often enough, long enough and in the right environments, they strengthen capacities that change how they see themselves, how they think and how they engage with their lives.
Creative Inputs
What we design
Creative Practice
What people do
Creative Capacities
What grows
Transfer
Carried into life
Long-term outcomes
Learning, work, wellbeing
Surrounded by the right Creative Environment · physical, social and cultural
The backbone of every program · 13 creative inputs
Open
Curiosity
Knowledge
Possibility thinking
Choose & Try
Agency
Productive uncertainty
Experimentation
Safe creative risk
Refine
Iteration
Critical thinking
Feedback
Collaboration
Integrate & Share
Reflection
Sharing & expression
What we have already built
Ten programs. Ten neighborhoods. No building yet.
Every program runs with a partner who already does that work at a high level. The three marked Next have not happened yet.
Our studio partners
Nine studios host the I Wonder workshops.
Where we have popped up
Ten neighborhoods. From Miami Gardens down to Pinecrest.
Nine partner organizations. Every program delivered before a building exists.
What happens next
Every space, fully pre-programmed for ten days
The Hangar, Coconut Grove, 7 to 16 May 2027. Every room, every hour, 188 sessions, each one priced, scheduled and assigned to a space.
Open any class
Nine days, every room, filtered by who is coming.
See the price, add it
Ages, room, partner and cost, then Add to my week.
The week, and what it costs
A family can build a week and see the cost before the doors open.
This is the operating model, tested in public. Demand, pricing and the mix of free and paid, measured before a dollar goes into construction.
The Founders wall
Forty-three names are already on it. The top plaque is empty.
The wall as it will stand in the permanent building. There is only one Founding Period.
Lead Founding Champion
One plaque, at the top, on its own. It has no name on it yet.
Founding Champions
Andrea Virgin & Greg Woulfe
Elizabeth H. Dudley
Edith & Martin Stein
Kent Jordan
Eight plaques, four filled. About ten more donors sit at this level, waiting for one of two things: someone to lead, or the Prototype to prove how it works.
Founders Circle
39 committed
Peg Anderson
James & Marta Batmasian Family Foundation
Drs. Brian & Beth Bernick
The Boca Raton
Heidi Boncher & Joel S. White
Brookfield Properties
Carlos & Cecilia Chinchilla
Matthew Cimaglia
Kelly Homnick DiMaria & Andrew DiMaria
Andrea & John Doyle
Marleen Forkas
Cindy & Robert Friezo Foundation
Terri & Stephen Geifman
Steven & Gina Giacona
Leslie Goldberg
JM Family Enterprises
Eric & Olga Jorgensen
Drs. Cristina & Donald Keusch
Patricia & Paul Kilgallon
Beverly Aluise Knight
In Memory of William L. Knight
Gina Landinez & Tom Nguyen
George & Jennifer Ligeti
Kamie & Richard Lightburn
Shaw & Laura McCutcheon
Camilo Miguel
Richard & Rachel Ostrovsky
The Perkaus Family
Patricia Frexes Ramudo
Laurel Rom
Dr. Matthew & Katalina Saady
Trish Savides
Roger & Elena Stein
Susan & Mike Taylor
Trisha Vaca
Randy & Jane Walker
Amanda Weiner
The Weiner Family
David & Katie Wohlstadter
Who just joined
Five new Founders, and what each one tells you.
None of them waited for the building. Each joined for a different reason, which is the point.
Global operating leadership, a New Yorker with no local stake, a returning founder, an established Miami family, and a capital donor from the building next door. The base is widening in every direction at once.
The road ahead
Two tracks, moving in parallel, to 2033
The Prototype tests and refines while we design and build, so The Center opens backed by evidence rather than assumptions.
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
Funded and running now
Mobile programming continues every year across South Florida
The Prototype
20,000 sq ft pop-ups
Design plans
Pop-up #1 at The Hangar, then pop-up #2
Pop-ups #3 to #6
Scale programs and operations, prepare for the move
Move in!
The Center
90,000 sq ft permanent home
Site analysis and due diligence
Concept and schematic design
Drawings and permits in hand
Break ground, then three years of construction
Tuning for opening
Grand opening
What we would test, together
What happens to a community that practises creativity on purpose?
Nobody has measured it at the scale of a city. The instrument already exists: thirteen inputs, designed into every program.
One instrument · two halves of the same society
Measured the same way, at the same time, rather than in isolation
One line for NSF, for your review
“With Griffin Catalyst, The Center is building the first city-scale test of whether deliberately designed creative practice changes how people learn, work and innovate, and we would like to run it alongside Carnegie Mellon’s work in higher education, so that a community and a university are measured together.”
The prize
The first community anywhere that can show it became measurably more creative on purpose. A society ripe to innovate, and a model the rest of the country can copy.