Lumina Interfaces: A Blueprint for Global Innovation

A Roadmap for Global Leadership, Diplomacy, and Collaboration at Scale

What happens when we spend time asking what questions to ask?

Here is a journey into our inaugural book launch of Lumina Interfaces:

1. Why This, Why Now?

On November 28, 2025, an intimate gathering of people from around the world convened to celebrate the start of a global book launch at IdeaSquare, CERN. The sentiment was one of excitement, wonder, and awe. To be in a location where scientists and artists from around the world collaborate was magical, like a science playground, each corner a discovery, a meeting of minds and hearts, similar to the pages of the book.

2. The Future of Humanity

Lumina Interfaces is not just a book, it is a 1200-page tome by 120+ authors from 6 continents spanning disciplines from art, space, technology, science, and culture. It is a blueprint for innovation and includes articles, excerpts, and thought leadership about brain computer interfaces, the future of work, and the future of humanity.

3. IdeaSquare, CERN Global Launch of Lumina Interfaces

Holo Art is delighted to have started our global book launch tour at IdeaSquare, the Innovation space at CERN. We were honoured to have notable leaders join us from various countries including Sweden, UK, Portugal, Italy, Canada, and the USA, among others. Attendees included board advisors, CEOs, executives, artists, engineers, physicists, musicians, actors, producers, interns, curators, cultural strategists, and economists.

4. Trusted Expertise

The impetus for this compendium of global perspectives is the current poly crisis that we all face: from fragmentation, to stagnation, to a need for us to learn and unlearn, to think differently, and to expand our capacity for consciousness beyond our individual domains. It follows what has been the legacy of Swiss leadership: a model for what has made CERN possible, a model for multinational collaboration. The content spans decades of experience, bringing together a kaleidoscopic view of modern thought. Contributions in the book are from Chief scientists, inventors, investors, pioneers, and patrons. They include globally trusted leaders from AWS, NVIDIA, NASA, ESA, IEEE, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Qualcomm, MILA, along with children and indigenous elders.

5. Renaissance Ethos of Human Ideals

Here, we are resurrecting the renaissance ethos of human ideals and the pillars that cultivate our capacity for imagination, curiosity, and creativity. Art needs science, and science needs art. This was a symbolic marriage of art and science, a symphony of harmony beyond time, an unforgettable experience for all that inspired transformation, sparked ingenuity, and explored with humility, vulnerability, and open heartedness, the question of what it means to be human, the question of ‘why are we here’ and, the profound ripples that emanate to bring us all together, as a species, moving toward even deeper questions and insights, sharing the journey of inquiry with like minded individuals working together as one. We became birds and flew as a flock, together, toward photonic light and a piercing vision of ‘what could be’.

6. A Licence to Dream

We were hosted by the incredibly high performing team at IdeaSquare, CERN with Dr. Pablo Garcia Tello sharing what has made the innovation space at CERN possible: the exploration of the question of ‘What ifs’. It was befitting to speak of civilization scale change at a place where the worldwide web was born, streets named Einstein, Bohr, Pauli. CERN, an emblem of global collaboration is where the LHC resides, and where scientists around the world worked together to discover the Higgs Boson, or ‘God particle’.

The environment, with the backdrop of the CERN Globe and Large Hadron Collider, was like a scientific playground, a paradise, and many people called it ‘Heaven’ given the kindness, empathy, compassion, and high efficiency of the premises, the logical layout of everything, from the strategically place sculptures to the beauty of the garbage bins, and the open hearted passion with which strangers collided, like particles, exchanging energies and ideas about plasma, dark matter, and muons. The team at IdeaSquare is comparable to none, extremely committed to advancing innovation and doing so with humour, grace, and a spirit of joy. Under the fearless leadership of Dr. Garcia Tello, the space was substantial, industrial, and inviting. With a light lab on the premises, a double decker bus from the UK, and plenty of incredible nooks and crannies, we found ourselves in the midst of a building where history had been made, where scientific discoveries had changed humankind, and where, young people from around the world were welcomed to explore without reigns, to have a license to dream.

7. What ifs…

The keynote from Joseph Fowler, Head of Arts and Culture, World Economic Forum brought the intimate gathering to tears, tapping into the toroidal heart energy of articulating so eloquently what our host had introduced, without pre-planning. His speech echoed Dr. Pablo Garcia Tello’s sentiment synchronously by also purporting, with the same syntax and linguistics that the questions we need to ask now are ‘What if…’ Joseph Fowler referenced Da Vinci, the future of humanity, and the need for looking to future and past generations for insights and wisdom. He spoke of form and function, of design, of art and culture as the only way forward.

Head of Arts & Culture, Joseph Fowler

8. Panel of Innovation

The panelists included a powerhouse of innovation depth. Nardo Manaloto, Fund Manager of Qubits Ventures, the first American Quantum Fund. We were privileged to have in our midst, Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld, a global leader in legal, banking, Fintech, and FemTech. The third panelist was Tom Donaldson, Senior Vice President, LEGO, Innovation, an iconic starting point for having children of all ages explore play by working with our hands. The questions we explored revolved around humility, interfaces, innovation, and personal anecdotes about how art and science are not only intertwined but fundamentally entangled.

9. Circle of Deep Dialogues

We then formed a circle and the intimate gathering shared insights about what ‘interfaces’ meant. Listening to an actor speak of our eyes as our scientific instrument, of an artist speaking of water, of a scientists speaking of scientific paradigm shifts, we communed together with an overture of collective narratives, the co-authoring of ‘let us learn’, ‘let us unlearn’, ‘let us listen’, ‘let us explore’.

10. Building and Rebuilding Together

We had our incredible intern from Portugal who is studying for his MA degree, play the night before, constructing a LEGO unicorn that then, at the invitation of Holo Art, the group was welcomed to be ‘deconstruct’ it, everyone taking a piece, an ode to art history, to Derrida, to Merleau Monty, to Picasso, Miro, and others, so that we could each carry with us a material momento of our time together. The black and white textbook, akin to a blackboard marked with white pencil crayon enabled us to share messages with each other and co-author a poem to leave as a living artefact.

We also played with invisible light, invisible ink markers where participants wrote on each other’s hands messages to be revealed under blue light.. a smile on everyone’s faces as we remembered what it meant to be a wondrous child. At this point, Holo Art gifted a meaningful sculpture to IdeaSquare, CERN: a collapsed solid cube by Holo Artists, Julian Voss-Andreae, former quantum physicist who worked in the lab – and co-authored articles about the wave particle collapse with Zeilienger. It was pure serendipity to share a collapsed, hollow ‘Platonic Solid’ with ‘IdeaSQUARE’ from Holo Art, based on the holographic principle. We ended the circle with a one-word checkout with words shared such as ‘Fulfilled’, ‘Inspired’, and ‘Connected’.

11. CERN Tour: Birthplace of the World Wide Web and Higgs Boson Discovery

At this juncture, we were to have a tour of the Science Gateway at CERN. As an improvised surprise, Dr. Pablo Garcia Tello graciously invited us to an intimate tour of the CERN facilities where we were mesmerized, delighted, and continually awed by the ingenuity at CERN. Participants kept repeating ‘Wow’, ‘So so cool’, and ‘Amazing’. Our tour guide was comedic, profound, and we watched as Einstein’s equations were inscribed as ‘writings on the wall’.

The humour at CERN is incredible, each walkway, pathway, a fascinating journey into the history of modern science, technology and art. We saw data centers that house global data and enable cancer treatments, international communications, historical narratives, all with art based interventions that boggle the mind and jog the soul to envision ‘what could be’. A walk to remember for life.’

12. Circle of Deep Dialogues

Our dinner was impeccable with the service of Omar and the catering team at CERN led by Eddy. We had Michelin starred head chefs in attendance. They were impressed. What was even more impressive was after the champagne toast, we heard from Lars G Frojd, Manel Gouveia, and Maria Linares Friere. Evo Heyning who spoke of her time in a monastery, and that we were sitting at the fire, all sharing the same light.

Dinner at the Glassbox

13. Higgs Boson, The Company We Keep, and Inner Peace

We had a scientific talk by Steve Goldfarb about the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and an impromptu request for a CERN PhD student, Kamaljeet Singh to share a message of peace. Tom Donaldson shared anecdotes of LEGO and Nardo Manaloto spoke of the Qubits Ventures Holo Art collaboration for a Moonshot Venture Studio for civilization scale change. Physicist Kamaljeet Singh studying plasma asked to share an impactful quote about inner peace.

We ended the evening with consensus: it is the quality and integrity of the questions we ask, and, the people with whom we choose to share our journeys on this planet with.

Quote shared by Physicist Kamaljeet Singh at Dinner

14. Eternal Gratitude

It is with heartfelt gratitude that the Holo Art team extends infinite appreciation to Pablo and team for their gracious hospitality, putting up with our unbearable requests.

We hope this rendition enabled you to join us in time and space with what was a most memorable start to the global launch of Lumina Interfaces.

Next up, Spain.