Advancing human creativity
Let curiosity lead the way
Miami · 2026
Why we exist
We are investing extraordinary resources in advancing artificial intelligence. Are we investing as intentionally in advancing humans?
Just when we need more creative, critical and independent thinkers, early evidence suggests overreliance on AI is beginning to erode some of those very capacities.
Our answer
A human-centered institution purpose-built to develop human creativity
Why creativity
It is the human capacity to imagine what does not yet exist, question what does, connect unrelated ideas and turn possibility into action. It is the essential human capacity for how we adapt, innovate and solve problems.
Why an institution
We’ve built institutions to educate us, heal us and advance science. None is purpose-built to develop human creativity across every age and stage of life.
Why now
Advancing humans has to happen in parallel with advancing technology. Employers are demanding it while people are currently craving new ways to connect, contribute and see their own value in this new AI-era.
Why Miami
Young, diverse, international and entrepreneurial. Miami is the ideal proving ground. We start here, prove it here, then build a movement that carries into communities across the nation.
Our mission
The Center exists to help people discover, grow and share their creativity, through spaces, programs and partnerships designed to ignite it.
Miami is where we prove the model and build its first permanent home.
Let curiosity lead the way
Who we serve
Three streams, every stage of life
What we run today
Ten programs running now, in collaboration with other organizations
Wonder Works
Kids and teens
“What Do You See?” Fellowship
Five fellows carry one question from blank page to film premiere.
Ages 10 to 18 · with YoungArts and Apple
“What If?” Challenge
A free contest to redesign something real in their own community.
Ages 6 to 18 · with FDOT District 4
Friday Night Creative Lights
Four Friday nights of rehearsal to one live stage.
Ages 6 to 18 · with YoungArts
Creative Careers
An assembly where students work a real career, not watch one.
High school · in development
Creative Kinship
Every age, together
SideQuest Saturdays
A familiar place treated as something to investigate, then make.
All ages · with Wynwood Walls
Underline Moves
Free dance nights under the stars, where everyone starts as a beginner.
All ages · with The Underline
The Garden of Us
A community designs and plants a garden that stays after we leave.
Intergenerational · with The Green Haven Project
Creative Reset
Adults
I Wonder… Workshops
An evening in a working studio, in a medium you have never touched.
Adults · with partner organizations
How to Hear Stillness
An orchestral sound bath in a garden, then a sunset meal.
Adults · with New World Symphony
Creative Edge
Executive coaching on the creative process, run on a live business problem.
Executives and teams
Built with our program partners
How it gets built
Mobile now. A prototype next. A permanent home in 2033.
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Running now
Mobile
The Mobile Imagination Lab takes the programs to where people already are: schools, parks and neighborhoods across South Florida.
This does not stop when the building opens. It runs every year between now and 2033, and it is how most people will meet us first.
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From 2027
The Prototype
A 20,000 square foot working facility, run as a series of pop-ups. The first opens at The Hangar in Coconut Grove from May 8 to 16, 2027: 188 sessions in nine days.
It tests real demand, pricing and the operating model, and every space planned for the permanent building is tested here first.
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Opens 2033
The Center
A 90,000 square foot permanent home in Miami, designed with Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with a space for every way people create.
Design and due diligence are underway now. Construction takes three years, and the doors open in 2033.
The programs do not wait for the building. By the time it opens, the model will have been tested in public for seven years.
Thank you.
Let curiosity lead the way.
Andrea Virgin · Chair & CEO
avirgin@tcai.org · tcai.org