An interdisciplinary ancient future discovery.
People can watch a story-based experience…
Would you rather participate?
Enter and transform.
Let the intention, the environment, and the resources dictate the medium: participatory art installation, community tea circle, musical theatre performance, collaborative experiment, so many possibilities.
The medium evolves in service to the meaning. Using tech, story, and presence to bring people into a deeper relationship — with themselves, with each other, and with the living world.
We build Portals into participatory stories.
Worlds that you complete.
A Living Culture.
Storyteller. Experience designer. Community bridge-builder.
Krishnan Unnikrishnan's journey to remix oral storytelling traditions through modern technology has thrust him onto an uncharted path of interdisciplinary forms and emerging media, including XR, live roleplaying, collaborative ritual-making, and generative AI art.
At Harvard, he was in the lab studying Biochemistry and Modern Technology by day and then singing and dancing on the Hasty Pudding Theatrical stage by night. He was later awarded the Indicorps Fellowship to serve children from underprivileged areas by writing and directing a musical in Mumbai, India.
Each practice begins with meaning, then finds its medium.
Each carries a project example.
Meaning before medium. I begin with the world the work needs to open: the question, the feeling, the relationship, and the possibility. I do not start by asking what medium we should use. I start by asking what kind of world people need to enter together.
Entry into participation. The threshold matters. A prompt, a cup of chai, a phone booth, a role, a shared action — these are not just design elements. They are portals that invite people to move from watching into participating.
Culture through repeated shared action. Ritual is how meaning becomes behavior, and behavior becomes culture. I shape rituals through rhythm, gesture, sequence, offerings, return, and shared attention, so people do not just understand something conceptually — they live it together.
Somatic legibility, presence, felt understanding. The body often understands before the mind explains. I work with movement, breath, touch, sound, pacing, and spatial relationship so participation can be felt, not only described.
Cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and relational translation. I help different worlds meet without flattening what matters — artistic and technical, spiritual and secular, local and cross-cultural, institutional and communal. Bridging is not simplification. It is finding a form that can hold more than one truth at once.
Feedback, participation, iteration, adaptation. I build forms that can listen — to the room, the participants, the body, and the moment — and then shift in response. This is how participation becomes real, and how the work stays living instead of fixed.
Systems thinking, continuity, pattern language. I do not only shape the event. I help shape the roles, rhythms, relationships, tools, and conditions around it so the work can continue, adapt, and seed future forms. This is how a project becomes more than a moment.
Knowledge transfer, values-alignment, experiential truth. I return to teaching, mentoring, and transmission so the work does not stay locked inside one project or one moment. When a practice can be shared, adapted, and carried by others, it begins to live as culture.
Some begin as performances. Some as rituals. Some become installations, films, labs, or collaborative experiments. Together, they show how story, embodiment, technology, and community create the conditions for humans to thrive.
A time-bound experimental lab where artists, technologists, facilitators, and community builders prototype participatory systems together. Here, process matters as much as product, and the conditions for shared creation are tested in real time.
Join the CollaboratoriumAn immersive ritual and ecological experience emerging through the Collaboratorium. It brings together embodiment, atmosphere, ecology, and collective participation in a peace-oriented frame.
Inquire →A participatory installation where AI becomes a mirror for the social field. People bring hopes, fears, and values into the work, and story reflects them back in a shared public form.
Inquire →Arranged by doorway
A community arts and musical project in Mumbai that grew into a living ecosystem of children, teachers, artists, volunteers, and audiences.
An international short film that let Bollywood and Hollywood sensibilities meet inside one story of longing, illusion, and world-crossing.
An embodied experimental environment using movement, sound, light, and responsive space to explore relationship through play.
A speculative story world that asks what happens when the human relationship with nature becomes increasingly filtered, staged, or lost.
A participatory tea ritual where prompts, symbols, and offerings turn a temporary gathering into shared reflection and belonging.
A custom-built phone booth inside an AI conference where private reflection opened into a collective story field about hopes and fears for the future.
A teaching and mentorship role where these methods become visible, shareable, and alive in practice.
I am interested in the ways modern systems flatten life — pulling us out of the body, thinning relationship, and giving us more information without deeper transformation.
My response is not rejection. It is restoration.
I work with story, ritual, embodiment, and technology as ways of bringing people back into right relationship — with themselves, with each other, and with the living world.
A good story does more than entertain. It helps people feel, reflect, shift perspective, and remember what matters.
Ritual is one of the ways culture is made. Through repeated shared action, values become lived rather than merely discussed.
Technology is never just a tool. It changes pace, attention, memory, and the way people meet. The question is not only what it can do, but what kind of life it trains.
Sometimes the body understands before the mind explains. Breath, movement, sound, touch, and space are part of the meaning.
Experiences explore the alignment and authenticity between head, heart, and hand. Social experiences uncover collective coherence. Lived practice restores depth, care, and shared meaning through participation.
Some people arrive with a project. Some with a question. Some want to build, support, host, or help shape what is emerging. A sentence or two is enough. If something in this work resonates, tell me what feels alive for you.
A living cultural system grows through the quality of its invitations. Thank you for sending a clear signal.