Xlab returns to New York City in 2026—bringing its legacy of bold exploration, creative risk-taking, and future-facing design back to the place where it all began.
This year’s event explores a question many designers are quietly asking: how do we continue making things that matter when everything is a lot? As technology accelerates, attention fragments, and the future feels increasingly uncertain, Xlab creates space for experimentation, reflection, and honest conversation about what it means to create meaningful experiences today.
Bringing together designers, technologists, artists, strategists, and storytellers, the program blends inspiring talks, participatory workshops, and unique New York experiences that challenge assumptions, spark new ideas, and reconnect us with the human side of creative practice.
Part symposium, part laboratory, and part creative recharge, Xlab is an invitation to explore what’s next together.
[Tickets are costed. Register to attend.]