CASE STUDIES
TEAM RETREAT
Business Challenge: This team of educators and learning assessors are gathering with the intent to bond and to embrace new mindset going into the new year. They always find time to build relationship within the group. And this year promises to challenge their individual and collective resilience in the face of expected changes. This day is expected to kick off a series initiatives and was asked - “Could you empower the team for this change?”
Activities/ Deliverable : pxd labs designed and delivered a customized 1 - day team retreat by activating LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, complemented by purposeful play activities. The team was engaged and crafted a set of guiding principle as a based for their yearlong change initiatives.
CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
The AIPC - the International Association of Convention Centres - is the industry association for professional convention and exhibition centre managers world wide.
In its 2025 annual conference, they brought professionals together for four days of forward-looking dialogue, discovery, and deep connection with the theme “Meet the World. See the Future”.
The conference attracted more than 150 senior delegates from over 30 countries. About 40+ attended a 90-minute interactive workshop and explored the emerging signals reshaping how attendees experience events.
Utilising serious play methods and foresight tools, the participants stepped into their customers' shoes to envision compelling future scenarios, then develop practical strategies they can implement right away.
LEADER'S RETREAT
Business Challenge: The local office of this global development agency identified a need for "team building" activities as part of their Country Office Leaders' Retreat. During our conversation, we've redefined this need into the importance of developing team cohesion, exploring a set of leadership practices, and addressing ongoing program and systemic challenges by the entity.
Activities/ Deliverable : pxd labs designed and delivered a customized 3- day leaders retreat by activating LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods, complemented by innovative team activities based on Liberating Structures, Management 3.0, Gamestorming. One of the delivered items for the Institution is a set of Guiding Principles for the leaders. The team was engaged, playful, and purposeful.
CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
The Dubai Future Forum 2025, dubbed as the world’s largest gathering of Futurists, continues to explore not just what lies ahead, but how we might navigate it with purpose and imagination.
With this year’s theme, and during their widely popular Learning Days, pxd labs, together with Denmark-based strategic foresight agency, ANTICIPATE, co-developed and co-facilitated an experiential workshop titled, “ THE FUTURES WITHIN”, that explored the universal challenge for futurists in introducing foresight in a way that resonates across cultures, roles and level of readiness.
Through four playful, immersive activities using methods like LEGO® Serious Play®, image projection, zine-making, and rapid futures prototyping, participants deepened their futures mindset.
By turning foresight into a personal practice, we facilitated a powerful door-opener for empowering future conversations with clients, communities, and colleagues.
