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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.

“What Do You See?”

Film fellowship · ages 10 to 18

“What If?” Challenge

Design contest · ages 6 to 18

Friday Night Creative Lights

Four nights to one stage

SideQuest Saturdays

Wynwood · all ages

I Wonder… Workshops

Nine studios · adults

Next

How to Hear Stillness

Orchestral sound bath · January 2027

Underline Moves

Salsa, bachata, tango · free, sold out

Next

The Garden of Us

Overtown · December 12

Next

Creative Careers

High school · in development

Next

Creative Edge

Executives and teams · booking

Our studio partners

I Wonder studio partners

Nine studios host the I Wonder workshops.

Where we have popped up

Biscayne BayMiami GardensNorth Miami BeachNorth MiamiWynwoodEdgewaterMiami BeachDowntownBrickellCoconut GrovePinecrest

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.

Nine Days of Wonder · the public programme for May 2027
The schedule for Thursday 13 May My week, three sessions and what they cost A class opened, showing ages and price
1

Open any class

Nine days, every room, filtered by who is coming.

2

See the price, add it

Ages, room, partner and cost, then Add to my week.

3

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.

Rendering of the Founders wall in the permanent building

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.

Randy and Jane Walker

Former CEO, IBM Asia Pacific

Operating leadership at global scale, now around our table.

Kamie Lightburn

New York

No ties to Miami. She joined for the mission, which makes this nationally relevant.

Heidi Boncher

Returning Founder, Boca Raton

An original Boca donor coming back to renew. The founding base is re-forming.

Gina Landinez and Tom Nguyen

A top executive and a leading cardiovascular surgeon

Prominent Miami families are beginning to join.

Richard and Rachel Ostrovsky

Boca Raton, with Miami ties

A major capital donor to The Hangar, now choosing to get involved here.

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

The Center

The community

Kids, families and adults, across ten neighborhoods, every program built on the same thirteen creative inputs. The Prototype gives us 188 sessions in nine days with repeat visitors.

Carnegie Mellon

The university

CMU is doing for higher education what we are doing for the city. Run the two together and you can ask whether the effect holds across both.

Measured the same way, at the same time, rather than in isolation

What makes it credible

Under both halves, holding them up

Griffin Catalyst

Moves first, and funds the thing being measured.

The National Science Foundation

Brings the design, the rigour and the reviewers. Everything we report today is self-reported. This is how that changes.

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.

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