Gathering 05 · Selected Works

Design a Place You Wish Existed

September 10, 2026 · Gallery House, Menlo Park

What is a place you wish existed in the real world? At AIC #5, participants explored that question through art, conversation, and AI image-making. Here are four of the places they created.

The Outputs

Four imagined places

A hall of discovery, a garden at dusk, a woven refuge, and a coast filled with light. Each image gives a different atmosphere a visible form. Select an image to view it in full.

People carrying books walk through glowing, multicolored doorways in a vast hall lined with shelves and celestial diagrams. — Selected work 01 Glowing doorways open onto different fields of knowledge. Books, celestial diagrams, and a seemingly endless hall turn learning into a place to wander.

A garden at dusk with chairs, flowers, wind chimes, string lights, a small waterfall, and a person playing guitar. — Selected work 02 Chairs gather around a pond beneath strings of warm lights. Flowers, wind chimes, and a guitar player fill a garden that leaves room for both company and quiet.

A seated figure floats inside a blue woven refuge, surrounded by pages and scenes of music, gardening, and making. — Selected work 03 A woven blue enclosure holds a still figure amid floating pages and scenes of everyday life. Its layers bring retreat, memory, and familiar pleasures into the same space.

A figure in white stands beneath flowering trees overlooking a sunlit sea and rocky coastline. — Selected work 04 Flowering branches frame a sunlit sea. A path and a solitary figure give the expansive landscape a human scale, with space to pause and look outward.

From the Evening

Imagining, making, and sharing

The evening moved from looking at art together to imagining places of our own. Sharing the images opened a conversation about what those places might make possible in everyday life.

Participants sharing ideas in a circle at Gallery House during AIC #5.

A participant sharing an AI-created image on her phone.

Participants chatting together during the fifth AIC gathering.

Four imagined places

Imagining, making, and sharing

What a Place Makes Possible