“It felt like moving through hyperspace: time was compressed, the decisions came naturally and we ended up with results none of us had seen coming.”
In 2014, I attended my first IDEO workshop and nothing I'd done before had produced this experience.
Since then, I’ve been collecting structures all over the world, and Hyperraum is the vehicle introduce my atlas of collected formats to you.
The work behind the work
This method comes from formal training across the field's strongest sources — Emergent Facilitation Mastery and Workshopper Master at AJ&Smart, the full Jake Knapp sprint stack, and Design Thinking at IDEO.
Facilitator, designer, engineer. Three disciplines, one operator. This is the combination which lives in for what Hyperraum does and how it does it.
Methods
Trained in Design Thinking (IDEO, IXDF Copenhagen), Sprint methods (Jake Knapp), and certified Workshopper Master (AJ&Smart). These are the fundamental tools that shape the work. The formats Hyperraum runs are built on these industry heavyweights.
How Hyperraum works
Solo operator. Named collaborators are brought in when a project's scale, subject matter or format genuinely requires it. That means clients work with Arne directly, not with a junior assigned from a roster.
Background
Arne worked as a designer and engineer at market-leading firms in furniture and industrial product, and has an
Design teaches you to work with context — the people in the room, the politics, the half-finished thinking — and shape it into something with relevance. It adds taste, visual thinking, and a refusal to accept compromises as inevitable.
Engineering (B.Eng Mechanical Engineering)
Engineering teaches you that clarity is something you can build. Constraints aren't obstacles, but the guidelines for what success looks like. A facilitated session also is a system: inputs, structure, outputs. Most facilitation problems are structural problems wearing emotional clothes.
The Room
Years of running events, from congresses to clubs, taught the third skill: reading a room. Holding the attention of 200 people at 2am is obviously a different discipline from running a strategy workshop — but the underlying craft is the same.