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Hi! I am Sylvan

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man ... will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art...

Marshall McLuhan

I am a strong generalist at the frontier of spatial intelligence, combining creative storytelling, product thinking, technical practice, and the production discipline to ship.

By day, I'm an Immersive Experience Producer at No Ghost, an Emmy award-winning studio in London, leading the delivery of interactive games and immersive experiences from concept to launch. I work with partners including Meta, Google, PwC, and BFI, and creative studios such as Magnopus. By night, I'm a prolific builder: prototyping mixed reality interactions, smart glasses apps, and spatial AI tools and workflows. I'm a six-time hackathon winner, including MIT Reality Hack and the Snap Spectacles Community Challenge, and my demos have drawn over 100K views across LinkedIn, X and Instagram. In between, I write on my Substack, a humanistic take on emerging technologies. I'm co-founding Physical I/O, London's first community for spatial intelligence and physical AI.

The future I'm working toward is a spatial layer that deepens and diversifies the physical world: intelligence that makes the world more legible and malleable, while enriching human agency and imagination. I want to take part in that process, respectfully crafting my own facet of the terrestrial artifact, and letting the work shape me in return.

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Sylvan Shen standing in an autumn garden