A story they recognize
The invisible design decisions that make ordinary places feel efficient, and unexpectedly lonely.
The spaces around us are always teaching us how to behave.
Lonely
Infrastructure.
How Play Can Rebuild
the Spaces Between Us
An emotional, interactive keynote about how play can rebuild connection in the places where we live, work, learn, and gather.
Customto your agenda
Liveaudience moments
Flexiblekeynote or workshop
Check your date ↗This chair has never failed.
It has also never introduced two people.
What if loneliness is not only a personal problem, but a design problem?
Through storytelling, research, audience experiments, and real-world projects, Jeremy reveals the invisible social instructions built into our rooms, streets, workplaces, playgrounds, and public spaces.
A 20-second experimentLook at someone near you.
Look at someone near you.
Invent a handshake.
BeforeStrangers in seats→AfterPeople with a story
Play does not distract us from connection. It gives connection somewhere to begin.
What audiences experienceNot a lecture.
Not a lecture.
A room that changes.
An experiment they feel
Live audience moments that make play, participation, and connection visible in the room.
A new lens they can use
Human Infrastructure: a practical way to see what an environment invites people to do, feel, and become.
An invitation they remember
A hopeful challenge to redesign the spaces between us at work, in public, and in everyday life.
Ways to bring Jeremy inChoose the energy
Choose the energy
your room needs.
Conference Keynote
Main-stage formatA story-driven opening, closing, or defining conference talk.
Ask about this format ↗Interactive Keynote
Participatory formatThe signature talk with live audience experiments.
Ask about this format ↗Standalone Workshop
Applied learning formatApply the Human Outcome Lens to a real challenge.
Ask about this format ↗Keynote + Workshop
Deeper engagementA shared keynote followed by practical working time.
Ask about this format ↗Fireside Conversation
Moderated formatA candid conversation about play, connection, and building ideas.
Ask about this format ↗Leadership Session
Private team formatA focused session for leaders shaping culture and experience.
Ask about this format ↗Not sure which format fits? Start with the date and audience. Jeremy will recommend the right shape.
Check availability ↗The talk in 60 secondsA problem.
A problem.
An experiment.
A new possibility.
We built a world that moves people efficiently, but rarely toward one another.
Play changes the rules and turns a room of strangers into participants.
Design the invitation, and connection has somewhere to begin.
Planner-ready details
Everything your event team needs.
Builder and storyteller
Jeremy Fojut is the founder of Fojut Ventures and a venture builder, experience designer, and community architect. His work explores how places, programs, and participatory experiences can make connection, curiosity, and play more likely.
Built around your event
Each engagement is shaped around the audience, agenda, venue, and desired level of participation. Options range from concise main-stage keynotes to extended interactive sessions and facilitated workshops. Technical and staging requirements are coordinated directly with the event team.
Speaking inquiriesCould this be
Could this be
your room?
Share the event date, city, audience, and approximate attendance. That is enough to start. Jeremy will respond directly with fit, availability, and next steps.
Four details. No formal brief required.