Co-founder, NEWaukee
Helped shape a Milwaukee social experiment into an engagement agency and a platform for city-scale experiences.
See the origin story ↗Different ventures.
One body of work.
Jeremy Fojut is a venture builder, experience designer, and community architect exploring how places, products, programs, and organizations can bring more of our humanity to the surface.
Representational imageIdeas designed to outlive the moment.
Jeremy’s work has repeatedly turned a simple invitation into an experience, a platform, or a community that other people could carry forward.
Milwaukee Night Market
Helped launch a recurring downtown experience that now generates more than 200,000 attendee visits annually.
See the evidence ↗New participation formats
Helped launch a founder-led peer community and ART 64, a live painting tournament decided by public vote.
Explore ART 64 ↗For years, the work appeared to span unrelated industries.
01Events
02Technology
03Education
04Entrepreneurship
05Community building
06Public space
07Products
Eventually a pattern became impossible to ignore.
Why do some environments make people connect, explore, participate, and play, while others make those behaviors almost impossible?
Across NEWaukee, Milwaukee Night Market, ART 64, founder communities, technology ventures, education concepts, experiential work, and Social Furniture, the category kept changing. The underlying pursuit did not: create conditions that bring more of our humanity to the surface.
That question became Human Infrastructure.