Quest Labs · The Creator

About

The practitioner-researcher behind the praxis.

Makēda Gershenson

Quest Prime · Practitioner-Researcher

Since 2008, Makēda Gershenson has been building playgrounds for the future. As founder of Quest Labs | Mosaics in the Making, she facilitates sandbox sessions and research collaborations that function less like classrooms and more like portals - places where play becomes possibility and constraints are composted.

Her work dances at the intersection of education, workforce evolution, and radical foresight, weaving decolonial scholarship and embodied practice into experiences that move people from what they've inherited to what they're brave enough to create.

Her approach holds tension tenderly and is rigorously playful toward co-crafting infrastructures of care.

Whether facilitating sandbox sessions that crack open new capacities, conducting organizational research that remaps who holds power over tomorrow, or exploring how a single metaphor can unlock what once seemed impossible, Makēda creates the conditions for you to see the stories you've been living inside and then craft a different future together.

Work with Makēda

Three ways to bring
this work to your world

For your school or district
Custom Sandbox Sessions, Sarkar Sandbox facilitation, STEEP Bingo for staff development, futures literacy workshops. Built around what your educators actually need.
For your organization
Organizational futures research, STEEP Bingo for leadership teams, participatory foresight facilitation, custom futures literacy experiences via Mosaics in the Making.
Sponsor a seat
20 sponsored seats available for the Flip the Script Fall 2026 founding cohort. Fund an educator's place in the room. Pay it forward and materially disrupt systems of oppression and harm.

This is what it looks like in practice.

Want to experience the practice before reaching out?

Find a Sandbox Session — open door, no commitment → Educator? Flip the Script starts May 17 →