Concept Sprint
- Best fit
- Early questions, stuck ideas, or opportunities without a clear shape.
- What moves forward
- A defined human outcome, opportunity frame, concept direction, and next-step brief.
Fojut Ventures / A venture studio for human connection
Designing environments where people become more connected, curious, and playful.
We help cities, developers, parks, schools, and community organizations create public spaces, events, and participatory experiences that bring people together.
CONNECTED · CURIOUS · PLAYFUL · CONNECTED · CURIOUS · PLAYFUL ·
A venture studio for human connection.
Fojut Ventures partners with cities, schools, businesses, institutions, founders, and communities through concept strategy, experience design, prototyping, and venture creation.
Experience Design
- Best fit
- Events, programs, activations, public spaces, and participatory experiences.
- What moves forward
- An experience architecture, participation moments, audience journey, and activation plan.
Prototype & Pilot
- Best fit
- Promising ideas that need to be tested with real people.
- What moves forward
- A testable pilot, learning agenda, participant feedback, and a stronger next iteration.
Venture Partnership
- Best fit
- Ambitious ideas that need an active builder, not only an adviser.
- What moves forward
- Longer-term strategy, creation, testing, and growth support shaped around the venture.
In the studio / 02Four experiments.
Four experiments.
One human question.
What would help people play, and therefore connect? Each venture explores a different answer through place, learning, belonging, or adventure.
Concept visualization01Social Furniture
Public furniture designed to begin something: a conversation, a game, a moment worth remembering.
Explore the collection ↗
Concept visualization02The Understory School
A future-facing school designed around the whole child: mind, body, character, relationships, courage, creativity, purpose, and wonder.
Enter the school ↗
03Play Date
A family community built around free monthly socials and optional paid adventures. Kids meet kids. Parents meet parents.
Meet the community ↗
04Quadyssey
The adventure starts where the road ends. Mountain Bike. Trail Run. Rock Climb. Kayak.
Follow the adventure ↗Three ways to begin
What are you trying to make possible?
01
Transform a Place
Public spaces and Social Furniture that give people a reason to stay, interact, and return.
Show us the place ↗02Design an Experience
Events, festivals, and activations built around participation, not passive attendance.
Design an experience ↗03Build a New Idea
New ventures, programs, and learning models shaped around a meaningful human outcome.
Bring us the idea ↗A place to start / Parks, plazas, campuses + downtowns
Have a place people pass through but rarely choose to stay?
Send Jeremy a location, photo, or map link. We'll look at what may be keeping the space from inviting connection, and whether a Planning + Site Fit study is the right next step.
Planning + Site Fit · $7,500-$15,000
Concept visualizationFrom overlooked spaceto social invitation.
Experiential event design / Participation by designEvents people don't just attend.
Events people don't just attend.
They enter, shape, and remember.
Fojut Ventures designs festivals, public events, branded activations, and original participation formats that turn an audience into part of the experience.
- Concept + creative strategy
- Audience journey
- Participation architecture
- Pilot + production direction
What if we designed for what makes us human?
Human Infrastructure is the intentional design of environments that strengthen relationships, spark curiosity, invite play, and leave people better than they found them.
Connected
Create the conditions where relationships, collaboration, and belonging can emerge.
Curious
Encourage exploration, questioning, experimentation, and discovery.
Playful
Invite movement, creativity, joy, and unexpected interaction.
An interactive thought experiment
Use the Human Outcome Lens.
Most environments are working exactly as designed. Look at what they were designed to optimize.
School
→
Compliance
An operational outcome. Necessary, but incomplete.
Office
→
Efficiency
An operational outcome. Necessary, but incomplete.
Coffee shop
→
Turnover
An operational outcome. Necessary, but incomplete.
Park
→
Maintenance
An operational outcome. Necessary, but incomplete.
Furniture
→
Durability
An operational outcome. Necessary, but incomplete.
City
→
Movement
An operational outcome. Necessary, but incomplete.
Technology
→
Attention
An operational outcome. Necessary, but incomplete.
The environment stays the same.
The intention changes everything.
Lonely
Infrastructure.
How Play Can Rebuild the Spaces Between Us. A story-driven, interactive keynote for audiences shaping cities, workplaces, schools, public spaces, and communities.
Fifteen years of designing invitations for people to participate.
Fojut Ventures carries that experience forward through Social Furniture, experiential design, venture creation, education, family connection, adventure, and play.
Where the practice began ↗Let's Build
Something.
If you're building a school, public space, experience, venture, organization, neighborhood initiative, product, or something that doesn't fit neatly into a category, we'd like to hear about it.
Start a conversation ↗