Invigorate your career.
Labs are inspirational bursts into the tools of innovation and industry knowledge that allow participants to understand complex systems better, no matter if it’s the global economy or a neighborhood pop-up shop.
Shift Labs are intended to enhance skills and learn how to apply those skills for personal growth. By partnering with futurists, artificial intelligence scientists, social innovation entrepreneurs, and advanced manufacturing experts we will develop and facilitate workshops to involve, inform, and inspire change.
Dare to design your future.
Looking for inspiring ways to explore new skills and prepare yourself for an adaptable and exciting future?
SHiFT Labs are focused, facilitated workshops. Using the design process, strategic foresight, and immersive approaches to help you accelerate your ability to challenge the status quo.

How it works:
Learn new methods
Each day, the events, workshops, and discussions will focus on the collaborative creative process. Topics like community, reflection, craft, and grit are explored through community challenges.
Inspiration for Innovation
Instead of relying on algorithms to build our online group of friends, learn to talk with others and connect on a personal level. This investment in human relationships will provide an actionable personal and professional network.
Explore with friends
Break free from the monotony and set off on an adventure with a fun mixture of personalities and viewpoints. Use this time to experience the world, push yourself, and build memories.
Lead and follow
Being a good leader means knowing when to follow. Learn to embrace others’ knowledge and unique skills so you can create better team dynamics.
Custom Engagements
Let’s design an engagement that addresses the needs of your organization. It’s our desire to partner with you to create the future and “teach you how to fish,” not act as outsiders that hoard our knowledge. We are experts at developing foresight capacity; building breakthrough strategy; solving long-standing problems; transforming organizations; seizing opportunities, and more!
Check out other previous events:

Disruptive Collaboration
SHiFT / LAB
Working with the MBA program from Otterbein University, Aether presented a 2-day LAB – Disruptive Collaboration: a primer on lean research and strategy. The intent was to help the MBA students understand the value design has across the organization and provide them with tools for disruptive collaboration. Starting with Aether’s Pre-search™ tool, participants examined how… Read More…

Kingsport STREAM Lab
SHiFT / LAB
During this particular lab, the participants were asked to envision a better world for both themselves and their community by exploring the world’s land, sea, and air ecosystems. By erasing their own biases and scanning the environment, they slowing began to uncover the issues at hand. They used the time to develop concepts for short-term… Read More…

Aether/Hatch Sketch Lab: Costa Rica
SHiFT / LAB
Partner: Hatch/Sketching Lab Date & Location: October 26-28, 2017 / La Libertad Park, San Jose, Costa Rica Participants: Around 20 multidisciplinary group of college students in various design fields / professional designers: industrial, graphic, architecture/ educators/government workers / social workers __ ages ranged from early 20s-60s Overview: Partnering with Hatch/Sketching Lab in San Jose Costa… Read More…