Brian Waniewski

Executive Director, Harmony Labs

Brian is Executive Director at Harmony Labs, a non-profit media research lab that researches and reshapes society’s relationship to media, using science, behavioral media data, and creativity. Before Harmony Labs, Brian served as Managing Director at Institute of Play. He also served on the core founding teams for Quest to Learn, a New York City public school that leverages game design to make school engaging and culturally relevant for young people; and GlassLab Games, a Silicon Valley development shop transforming digital games, like SimCity, into classroom learning environments with real-time formative assessments built in. Brian was trained as a poet. He has worked as a speechwriter, a management consultant, a professor, cook, and gardener, and built by hand a timber-frame cabin in the woods, where he spent five years reading, writing, and meditating.