Spatial Storytelling Studio

A room the size
of your neighborhood.
A signal the size
of the world.

Longwave builds immersive 360° spaces out of what a community actually lives — its voices, its places, its memory. From a phone in your hand to a planetarium ceiling. From a street corner in the Delta to a mercado in Puebla to a gathering in Berlin. Carried live.

Est. 2026 Pawtucket · RI Open signal
Live · 360°
01 / 05
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What Longwave is

A longwave signal bends around the earth. It carries past horizon lines. It reaches people other frequencies can't.

We make spaces that hold the stories communities are already living. We carry the voices. We build the tools that let communities carry their own.

01

A studio, not a platform.

Singular, hand-crafted 360° environments — real people, real places, real time. Each one a document, not a simulation. Each one something a classroom, a museum, or a community center can actually open.

02

A toolkit, not a product.

360 Studio lets multiple facilitators shape a spatial story together in real time. Voice. Video. Journals. Spatial audio. Made for community groups, not developers.

03

From pocket to dome.

The same space opens on a fifth-grader's phone and projects across a sixty-foot planetarium ceiling. Same signal, different reach. That's the whole point of a longwave.

Four spaces.
Built with the communities inside them.

Each environment is an original capture — real place, real voices, real lived experience. Threaded together by Asili, our interpretive intelligence layer, so a story in the Delta can speak to a story in Puebla, and a question asked in Berlin in 2006 can meet a response in 2026.

Orlando · FL
Parramore
16 stories · 3 spaces
Clarksdale · MS
The Crossroads
Sounds of knowledge
Puebla · México
El Mercado Vive
The market speaks
Berlin · 2006 / 2026
Table of Free Voices
112 voices · 48 countries
Under the hood · Who it's for · Who built it

Three ways to go deeper.

The toolkit that carries it. The people it's built for. The collaborators who built it. Pick your door.

A note from inside the work

The spatial web is being built right now — mostly without us.

Apple, Meta, and Google are scanning every street and every room to build their version of spatial reality. Communities are the backdrop. Their neighborhoods become someone else's infrastructure.

Longwave is a counter-claim. A 360° capture made by or with a community is not a scan — it's a document. It carries the evidentiary weight of a photograph. It says: this was real, these people stood here, this is what it looked like from the inside.

When neighborhoods get redeveloped, displaced, or erased — these spaces remain.

— Civic Designers · Longwave
For dome operators, planetariums, and museums

A content channel for civic wonder.

The planetariums and traveling domes in your community library, children's school, or science center have almost no content that isn't astronomy. Longwave brings culturally-rooted, community-authored fulldome experiences — a neighborhood in the Delta, a mercado in Puebla, a global gathering of voices on the future of democracy. Facilitated. Curriculum-aligned. Ready to book.

We partner with planetariums from Rhode Island to Colorado. We submit to Dome Fest West. We license to school systems. We'll bring our own projection rig if you bring the dome.

1,800+
US planetariums to reach
4
Deployed environments
Sept 9
2026
Global launch milestone
SIGNAL · LIVE THE ROOM
Open signal

Let's hold the space
together.

A teacher. A planetarium director. A community organizer. A museum. A funder. Curious. We want the conversation — wherever you are on the map.

Paths in 04
01 Planetariums & museums Book a dome screening 02 Teachers & schools Walk a 360° environment