Where your imagination is the blueprint
What we do.
INTO THE FUTURE is dedicated to nurturing curiosity, creativity, and imagination.
Our Brooklyn storefront is a lab for play and innovation with three agreements: Be safe, be kind, expand your mind. Young people have the opportunity for free, imaginative play and building before being introduced to design challenges. Through our FutureTime curriculum, children examine different core topics-from historical origins, to present day applications and possible futures. Then they build their own physical models of what they imagine.
Young people create amazing things when we give them the freedom to build whatever they see, and approach problems with empathy, creativity, and critical thinking. We’re inspiring them to envision and shape a better world.
OUR MISSION
To learn from the past, play in the present, and build the future.
OUR VALUES
Joyful Exploration
Expansive Thinking
Holistic Well-Being
Thoughtful Choices
Abundant Creation
OUR VISION
A world filled with curiosity, creativity and imagination
Why we do it.
Imagination plays a crucial role in the cognitive, emotional, and social development of children. In the long term, a lack of imaginative thinking can result in adults who are less capable of regulating their emotions, adapting to new challenges, thinking outside the box, or solving complex problems—skills that are vital for navigating change. And, perhaps most importantly, by fostering creativity we can encourage young learners to engage in ways of thinking and understanding that they enjoy.
Structural barriers to the development of this imagination muscle have mutated throughout history and across cultures. Today, those barriers often take the form of rigid educational systems and excessive passive screen use–both of which limit the open-ended, social play that nurtures imagination.
Through our Play-Learn-Build approach, Into the Future transforms any learning environment into a space of avid creation.
Play: Unstructured play gives children the freedom to explore materials and ideas in a joyful, resource-rich space, sparking curiosity and creativity.
Learn: Our FutureTime lessons nurture expansive thinking, with a healthy dose of silliness sprinkled throughout.
Build: Children enter the flow state of creation, where experimentation and passion drive their creativity and our young learners bring their ideas to life through hands-on building.
Through this blend of freedom, abundance, and enthusiastic exploration, Into the Future turns any space into a place where imagination can truly take root and grow–along the way showing young learners how to build the future with their minds, hands, and hearts.
What we believe.
We are storytellers of the future
People can create compelling images of the future that shape the decisions we make today — for a better tomorrow.
At Into the Future we believe in the power of free play, emotional regulation, and self-directed learning. We foster a “build culture” and encourage young people to explore and experiment in the name of innovation.
