In 2021 Altimeter met with leadership from the United Nations DPPA Innovation Cell. Our shared interest in creative approaches for positive global impacts inspired deep conversations about the current state of the world.
At the time, we were living amid the COVID-19 pandemic and discussed the transition that would occur when people from countless occupations began to return to the office following a year of remote work. Our initial interest in designing a set of “dialogue tools” to ease the transition from on-screen to in-person gatherings eventually developed into deeper questions about the potential for objects to translate meaning and facilitate crucial conversations.
