Making
unimaginable ideas
inevitable.
A narrative R&D studio for frontier science.
To build a better world, we need to build lots of worlds.
We can't use yesterday's thinking to explore a vision for tomorrow. SpacetimeLabs is a narrative R&D studio producing frontier science missions into serial storytelling media — video, animation, games, and podcasts — that attract capital, talent, and new audiences.
Using future-forward research methods, we explore narratives and produce stories that help founders, investors, and the public see around corners, view beyond the horizon, and face challenges before they arrive.
This is the new R&D.
The new R&D.
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What is narrative R&D?
Every frontier technology creates a new reality, but new realities don't explain themselves. They need stories built around them before anyone can see or understand what they mean.
Narrative R&D is the practice of using storytelling, worldbuilding, and science fiction methods to research and develop how breakthrough ideas are understood, funded, and adopted. It's not marketing. It's not branding. It's the work that happens before either of those is possible, making the unimaginable visible and more likely to occur.
Let’s build worlds.
Worlds we’ve built…
Built with pioneers.
”They transformed our breakthrough technology into an investable business.”
Co-founder Team, BLSK Energy
"A veritable guiding light of communication!"
Dr. Paul M. Sutter
Astrophysicist / Host, Author, US Cultural Ambassador
”Highly recommended!”
Dr. Kimberly Arcand
Visualization Lead, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
”Incredibly sharp, perceptive, intuitive, and creative.”
Dr. Sara ElShafie
Global Change Biologist / Science Communicator
"Provided us with opportunity to raise more funding."
Chad Davis
Chief Innovation Officer
Nebraska Public Media (PBS & NPR)
From pitch to
’Best in Travel’ in 8 months.
A mind stretched by an extraordinary experience can never return to its original shape.
We didn't just market space tourism. We built a world, ASTRO.TOURS, where astronomy became an experience that Lonely Planet™ recognized as their 2019 Best in Travel for dark sky tours. The narrative everyone could relate to: We are life in the universe.
From concept to global recognition in 8 months
Bootstrapped $1k into $500k in revenue
Sold out tours in Chile, Iceland, and Costa Rica
Partnership with world-renowned astrophysicist / author Paul M. Sutter
ASTRO.TOURS - We Are Life in the Universe - Brand/ID Promotion 2020