Culture is not simply knowledge of art or etiquette.
It is a living system of conscious choices that shapes every aspect of life.
It is a living system of conscious choices that shapes every aspect of life.
A film about the laboratory's living process
Laboratory Programme Format
The main creative process of the International Laboratory for the Leaders of the Future unfolds online over six weeks.
Only 60 places are available — preserving depth, intimacy, and individual attention for each participant.
- Live sessions with programme authors and international mentors
- Small-group collaboration (up to 10 participants)
- Individual sessions and project reviews with curators
- Therapeutic and integrative support
- Immersive creative sessions and practices
- Personal guidance and strategy sessions
- Networking with visionary leaders from around the world
A week-long in-person gathering in nature — a deep dive into the creative field of MATERIUM. Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
1/12/2025 - 8/02/2026
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24-30/01/2026
Online Immersion
Offline Residency
- “My creative side opened even further — and the project took off.”
- “Here, creativity follows a clear methodology. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
- “A focused, profound system — no fluff. My worldview expanded; everything clicked.”
Визионер. Креатор.
Автор и создатель лаборатории MATERIUM
Автор и создатель лаборатории MATERIUM
Marisabel
MARINA GLUKHOVA
About the Founder
@marisabela
- Creator of the acclaimed “Cultural Code” programme at Skolkovo Business School (2021–2024).
- Founder of Companionka, an international creative community for women (2022–2024).
- Creator of "Podarochek", an educational program in creative producing, 2025
- Creator of "The Visionary's Cultural Code", an international educational program in Bali, 2023–2025
- Founder of ABC Lab — The Laboratory of Meaning and Culture (2013–2025).
Manifesto
This isn't just an educational gathering—it's my way of telling the world: I believe in people who create from depth, not from fear.
We're living at a point of choice.
We can keep adapting.
Or we can step to the frontlines. Of culture. Of business. Of humanity.
Ten years from now, I want to see a different generation around me: people who think at the scale of nations and act from their true form, from belief, from clarity.
I need to bring them together. Activate them.
Give them each other.
So that through this program, we launch not just projects, but new foundations, ecosystems, institutions.
— Marisabel
The Co-Creators
Producer, Curator & Creative Entrepreneur
Anya Layfield is a producer and curator whose work unfolds at the intersection of art, technology, and human consciousness. Living between London and working globally she brings together creative leaders and designs environments where new ways of seeing and being can emerge.
The founder of BEYOND Festival — an immersive exploration of creativity and human potential — Anya has also shaped international co-working and creative hubs in cities like London, Mumbai, and Cape Town, developing communities that bridge business, culture, and consciousness.
Her practice weaves aesthetics and meaning into visionary systems that help people and places awaken their creative intelligence and act from coherence and intention.
Anya Layfield
about co-creator
Curator, producer, and strategist for creative cultural projects. Speaker, facilitator, connector.
Has worked with international institutions and artists, launching art residencies, collaborations, and platforms. A bridge between entrepreneurial thinking and artistic vision. Expert in weaving webs of connections — between meanings, people, and territories.
Lives in multiple worlds simultaneously: culture, business, and global collaborations. Knows how art can become a passport to new ways of thinking, living, and acting.
Yulia Belousova
about co-creator
Creator, curator, researcher, and strategist working at the intersection of fashion, culture, branding, art, and urban environments.
Former Creative Director of Tsvetnoy department store, TSUM shopping center, Esentai Mall, and Glyph agency.
Expert in the international creative industry with over 16 years of experience.
Specializes in branding, strategic marketing, and developing cross-cultural concepts for global projects.
Expert in the international creative industry with over 16 years of experience.
Specializes in branding, strategic marketing, and developing cross-cultural concepts for global projects.
Georgy Shorgin
about co-creator
45
International mentors and experts
6
Weeks of immersive learning
12
Participating countries (including the USA, UK, Mexico, Russia, and across Europe)
300
Hours of creative design and development
MATERIUM in Numbers
Focus of the International Laboratory 2025–2026 — Unity
We’ll be exploring one of the most urgent questions facing global society, entrepreneurs, and nations today: the fragmentation of the world.
Laboratory mentors
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Mezcal Amarás
Santiago Suarez is the man who transformed a love for Mexican craft into a global brand. An engineer by training and an entrepreneur at heart, he leads Mezcal Amarás and Inmobiliaria Suarco, blending tradition, sustainability, and creativity. His mission: to bring the authentic taste of Mexico to the world.
Santiago Suarez
about mentor
Psychologist, philosopher, and Partner at Pransky & Associates (USA). Since 1976, alongside her husband George Pransky, Linda has pioneered a revolutionary approach to psychology based on the Three Principles—an approach that has transformed millions of lives and become foundational to modern mindfulness.
Linda teaches people to see the nature of their own thinking—how thoughts create our experience of reality moment by moment, and how understanding this frees us from anxiety, stress, and mental noise. An encounter with her offers access to profound insight: where feelings come from, where insights arise, and how to create from a place of inner wisdom rather than fear. Her approach helps people achieve real, lasting transformation—often surprisingly quickly. Program participants will gain the philosophical foundation for everything they create going forward.
Linda Pransky
About mentor
Managing Director of Broadwick Soho—the iconic boutique hotel in the heart of London's Soho, opened in 2023. His background is primarily in fashion, with 20 years working with luxury brands. Together with hotel founder Noel Hayden, Joe created a space that draws inspiration from the spirit of Soho—a place where edge, glamour, and wild energy collide. His philosophy: hospitality as performance, where every detail matters and creates an emotional experience.
Joe wants to redefine what a modern hotel can be—offering a space rooted in London culture while delivering an unparalleled level of authentic hospitality. From meeting him, participants will learn how to transform space into feeling, how to build a brand through atmosphere and detail, how to create not just a service, but a cultural experience. His story demonstrates how sensibility, aesthetics, and attention to detail become competitive advantages in any business.
Joe Ringestad
about mentor
BAFTA-nominated Swedish film producer, fundraiser, and entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Umedia (2004-2019), now Executive Chairman of the production-finance group Align, which he founded and led as CEO (2019-2024). He has raised and deployed over €650M in media financing. Producer of more than 500 films and series, including The Artist (5 Oscars), Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Mandy, and the HBO series My Brilliant Friend. His films have received 11 Oscar nominations (5 wins), 77 César Award nominations (22 wins), and have been selected for the official Cannes Film Festival program 25 times.
Adrian built companies that grew from three people to international groups with 200+ employees and $100M+ in revenue. He's living proof that creativity and capital can be united. From meeting him, participants will learn how to find financing for ambitious projects, how to scale creative ideas, how to build bridges between art and commerce, how to transform inspiration into economic power. His experience is invaluable for anyone wanting to realize projects on a global scale.
Adrian Politowski
about mentor
Italian-Canadian artist and director known for his 3D video collages and pioneering use of digital technology in video art. He has worked with NASA, Marina Abramović, and Kanye West. He created the visual "intermezzos" for Abramović's opera "7 Deaths of Maria Callas" and the music video for Kanye West's track "Power." His works are held in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim, and SFMOMA, and have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
Marco explores the influence of pop culture through the lens of Guy Debord's "spectacle"—how images turn human experience into commodity through oversaturation. His work examines transition, the relentless acceleration of our culture, and the emotional connection and disconnection created by technology. From meeting Marco, participants will learn how technology becomes poetry, how visual language operates on a philosophical level, how to create work at the intersection of art and innovation. He expands the boundaries of imagination and reveals the future of visual culture.
Marco Brambilla
about mentor
Founder of Sekta—an online healthy lifestyle school that started as a blog in 2011 and grew into a company generating 8 million rubles per month by 2014, with over 100,000 students across the EMEA region. Founder of Vahue Events. AI expert—creator of artificial intelligence intensives and the course "Do I Want a Child?" Mother of three, musician (indie band member since 2003), surfer. Lives in Bali, runs her business globally.
Olga exemplifies a new type of entrepreneurship where business, creativity, family, and life aren't separated but integrated. From meeting her, participants will learn how to build a global business from anywhere in the world without sacrificing freedom or authenticity, how to use AI in creating educational products, how to remain a creator in every role—from mother to company founder. Her story shows that you can be a successful entrepreneur while living a full, rich life.
OLga markes
about mentor
Psychologist, author, AI psychologist. Creator of original neuromeditations and a community exploring the intersection of technology and human consciousness.
Dmitry works with inner states through modern technology, demonstrating how AI can become a tool for engaging with the subconscious, emotional regulation, and unlocking creative potential. From meeting him, participants will gain access to practices for working with their own state, learn how to use neurotechnology for personal transformation, and how to manage their inner world for maximum productivity and creativity. He shows a future where technology serves human development.
Dmitry Kostukov
about mentor
Former Worldwide Deputy Chairman of Phillips—one of the world's leading auction houses. Curator, writer, contemporary art expert. Graduated from Moscow State University with a master's degree in journalism in 2008. Founder of Malevich.io—a platform connecting art, technology, and investment. Poet. Has represented clients at major auctions, setting sales records for works by contemporary artists.
Svetlana bridges knowledge from the worlds of finance and the art market, revealing how growth potential operates in the art world. From meeting her, participants will learn how to think at the level of collecting meaning, how art becomes both an asset and a currency of influence, how to use the art market for positioning, how poetry and business can coexist in the same space. She opens up the world of cultural capital and shows that leadership is possible not only in business, but in the cultural sphere as well.
svetlana marich
about mentor
Artist and Co-Founder of Studio DRIFT (Amsterdam) alongside Lonneke Gordijn. The studio creates kinetic installations and sculptures at the intersection of nature and technology. Their work has been exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Palazzo Strozzi, Central Park (New York), Centre Pompidou, The Shed NYC, Stedelijk Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Venice Biennale. Creator of the Franchise Freedom project—a light installation featuring 300 drones that explores the concept of freedom through collective movement.
Studio DRIFT's philosophy: to reveal nature's hidden properties through technology, reestablishing humanity's connection with the Earth. Their projects create balance between information overload and human sensitivity—a dialogue between nature and technology, knowledge and intuition. From meeting Ralph, participants will learn how to create work that transforms spaces and evokes profound emotional responses, how technology can become a language for conversing with nature, how to pose fundamental questions about life through their projects.
Ralph Nauta
about mentor
Coaches, Therapists and Curators
CHOSEN BY TIME,
CALLED BY THE FUTURE
VOICES of TRANSFORMATION
Founder of Soul Nails and Monami Professional brands
Nelli GranD
Founder of a fitness tracker and beauty gadget manufacturing company IMPULSE
Mikhail Kopty
Creator and Founder of The Game project, Moscow
Darya Menshikova
Founder of VISUVA automotive company, Krasnoyarsk
Petr Ivanov
Actor and theater producer, Moscow
Ivan Zhidkov
Founder of a virtual assistant platform for marketers, Moscow
Yulia Volikova
CREATIVE PROCESS
FROM 2022 to 2025
FROM 2022 to 2025
Indonesia, Georgia, UAE, Turkey, Russia
Indonesia, Georgia, UAE, Turkey, Russia
Mindset
Skills
THE RESULTS
Environment
State
- Strategic vision for 10+ years ahead
- The ability to create trends rather than follow them
- A transformation of consciousness that manifests beauty in tangible form
- Generating inspiration on demand
- Mastering the plasticity of reality
- Creating products that change the rules
- Working fluidly with AI and emerging technologies
- Freedom from external opinions
- Action driven by joy
- Emotional balance and resilience anywhere in the world
- Serendipity — the ability to make deep discoveries through chance and insight
- Access to global networks and closed circles worldwide
WHEN CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANDS, THE BODY REALIGNS. BEAUTY, HEALTH and PRESENCE BECOMES ITS QUIET PROOF.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS IRREVERSABLE.
Plans
For creators, producers, and artists ready to step beyond the familiar and build a project born from their authenticity.
What’s included:
- 2 weeks of pre-training + 6 weeks of live practice (3 times a week)
- International speakers, curators, therapists, and coaches
- Live sessions with Marisabel and mentors
- Access to the community of future leaders
- Group chat, collaborations, and team practices
- Team support and supervision
10 spots left
This format is about impulse, action, and creative manifestation of something new.
CREATOR
For entrepreneurs, leaders, and partners who want to rebuild their strategy, create and realize their Big Idea, go beyond templates, and feel the power of an international space.
What’s included:
- Everything from the CREATOR plan
- 2 weeks of pre-training + 6 weeks of live practice with international speakers
- Live sessions with Marisabel, therapists, and curators
- Group interactions and networking
- Access to the community of future leaders
- Team support and supervision
3000 Euro
This format is about expanding horizons and stepping into a new dimension of thinking and business.
ENTREPRENEUR
For founders, investors, and leaders of social and cultural systems ready for deep restructuring, inner transformation, and conscious leadership.
What’s included:
- Everything from the ENTREPRENEUR plan
- 2 weeks of pre-training + 6 weeks of live practice with international speakers
- Therapeutic and coaching groups in small format
- Individual session with Marisabel
- Personal consultation with Marisabel
- Psychotherapy and coaching for a small group
- Participation in the international offline laboratory
6000 Euro
This format is about inner evolution, depth, and creating the culture of the future.
VISIONARY
MATERIUM Grant
*Selection is competitive
2 full scholarships for young creators* working at the intersection of business, culture, and the future. We're looking for those who feel the pulse of the times and want to create projects that transform the landscape.
for creators under 35
To apply for the grant, describe your project and motivation in your admission application.
Ideal candidate:
- Under 35 years old
- Works in creative fields, media, arts, technology, or education
- Ready to propose an idea that can be developed within MATERIUM
- Has the ambition to realize a project of international scale
“For those who seek something more.” (English)
“Extraordinary — how your way of thinking shapes fulfilment in work and in life.” (English)
“Beyond Cappadocia begins a re-imagination of traditional thought.”(Turkey)
“A different world: beyond Cappadocia.” (Turkey)
“A moment of reflection — on what our culture, and the projects that change the world, are truly missing.” (Russian)
“Art for art’s sake — who stands behind the new dialogue between art and its audience?” (Russian)
“Art in the former Auchan building and digital installations — a festival reboot in Zaraysk.” (Russian)
“Inside Love Ball by Natalia Vodianova.” (Russian)
“Guests of the contemporary art festival ‘Between the Past and the Future’ in Zaraysk.” (Russian)
“Traveling through Russia: how the project ‘Avant-gardists of Vladivostok’ turned a city of seven winds into a city of strength.” (Russian)
“Russia’s first cultural-educational program for entrepreneurs launches in Moscow.” (Russian)
“A gift of art to the city — the Moscow art experiment.” (Russian)
“Skolkovo launches an educational course for entrepreneurs with a focus on culture.” (Russian)
“Narine Arakelian on the meaning behind her performance at the Venice Biennale.” (Russian)
“For those who seek something more.” (English)
“Extraordinary — how your way of thinking shapes fulfilment in work and in life.” (English)
“Beyond Cappadocia begins a re-imagination of traditional thought.”(Turkey)
“A different world: beyond Cappadocia.” (Turkey)
“A moment of reflection — on what our culture, and the projects that change the world, are truly missing.” (Russian)
“Art for art’s sake — who stands behind the new dialogue between art and its audience?” (Russian)
“Art in the former Auchan building and digital installations — a festival reboot in Zaraysk.” (Russian)
“Inside Love Ball by Natalia Vodianova.” (Russian)
“Guests of the contemporary art festival ‘Between the Past and the Future’ in Zaraysk.” (Russian)
“Traveling through Russia: how the project ‘Avant-gardists of Vladivostok’ turned a city of seven winds into a city of strength.” (Russian)
“Russia’s first cultural-educational program for entrepreneurs launches in Moscow.” (Russian)
“A gift of art to the city — the Moscow art experiment.” (Russian)
“Skolkovo launches an educational course for entrepreneurs with a focus on culture.” (Russian)
“Narine Arakelian on the meaning behind her performance at the Venice Biennale.” (Russian)
MATERIUM Team
Egor Zhuykov
Creative partner, agent for Marisabel
Andrey Lyashchenko
Communications and development lead
Yuna Ilyina
Materium community leader, Materium ambassador
Evgenia Martynovich
Methodologist
Rostislav Likhachev
Content creative producer, guest manager
Olga Selenya
Designer
Maria Fedyaeva
Materium communicator, Voice and communication writer
Victoria Matyashova
Creative producer of offline laboratories
Dmitry Klyuchevsky
Art director, designer
Natalia Kundera
Methodologist, founder of WES methodology agency
MATERIUM is an incubator for the leaders of the future
This is where projects are born that endure for decades.
This is where thinking is shaped that's ahead of its time.
If you feel your time has come—act.
This is where those who create culture—not consume it—come together.
Spots are always limited
FAQ
Materium is a 6-week journey for founders, creators, and visionaries — a living space for transformation and authentic leadership.
It’s where you rediscover who you are becoming, what you’re here to create, and how your vision can serve something larger than yourself.
It’s where you rediscover who you are becoming, what you’re here to create, and how your vision can serve something larger than yourself.
The Laboratory is not a course — it’s a living experiment.
Together with your group, you’ll explore, reflect, observe, and create.
It’s a space of direct experience rather than theory — alive, unfiltered, human.
Each person walks their own path, yet you move within a field of support that amplifies your growth.
Together with your group, you’ll explore, reflect, observe, and create.
It’s a space of direct experience rather than theory — alive, unfiltered, human.
Each person walks their own path, yet you move within a field of support that amplifies your growth.
Admission is a conversation — not an interview.
It helps both sides feel whether we’re a match for this kind of journey.
We don’t choose the “best”; we gather those ready for depth, honesty, and creative transformation.
It’s how we create a group that speaks the same language and holds the same level of awareness.
You’ll also have a chance to ask questions and sense whether this experience calls you.
It helps both sides feel whether we’re a match for this kind of journey.
We don’t choose the “best”; we gather those ready for depth, honesty, and creative transformation.
It’s how we create a group that speaks the same language and holds the same level of awareness.
You’ll also have a chance to ask questions and sense whether this experience calls you.
We welcome only 60 participants.
The group is intentionally intimate — to preserve the quality of attention, guidance, and deep personal work with each person.
The group is intentionally intimate — to preserve the quality of attention, guidance, and deep personal work with each person.
Yes — but we encourage presence.
Nothing replaces the energy of being together: the conversations between sessions, the subtle chemistry of real connection.
Zoom connects us, but the in-person gatherings spark the kind of alchemy where real change begins.
Nothing replaces the energy of being together: the conversations between sessions, the subtle chemistry of real connection.
Zoom connects us, but the in-person gatherings spark the kind of alchemy where real change begins.
You’ll be supported by the Materium team — mentors, facilitators, and creators who have walked this path themselves.
They hold the space for your process with care, insight, and creative precision.
They hold the space for your process with care, insight, and creative precision.
For any questions or technical issues, write to support: support@materium.ru — we’re always here and happy to help.
Materium is a 6-week journey for founders, creators, and visionaries — a living space for transformation and authentic leadership.
It’s where you rediscover who you are becoming, what you’re here to create, and how your vision can serve something larger than yourself.
It’s where you rediscover who you are becoming, what you’re here to create, and how your vision can serve something larger than yourself.
The Laboratory is not a course — it’s a living experiment.
Together with your group, you’ll explore, reflect, observe, and create.
It’s a space of direct experience rather than theory — alive, unfiltered, human.
Each person walks their own path, yet you move within a field of support that amplifies your growth.
Together with your group, you’ll explore, reflect, observe, and create.
It’s a space of direct experience rather than theory — alive, unfiltered, human.
Each person walks their own path, yet you move within a field of support that amplifies your growth.
Admission is a conversation — not an interview.
It helps both sides feel whether we’re a match for this kind of journey.
We don’t choose the “best”; we gather those ready for depth, honesty, and creative transformation.
It’s how we create a group that speaks the same language and holds the same level of awareness.
You’ll also have a chance to ask questions and sense whether this experience calls you.
It helps both sides feel whether we’re a match for this kind of journey.
We don’t choose the “best”; we gather those ready for depth, honesty, and creative transformation.
It’s how we create a group that speaks the same language and holds the same level of awareness.
You’ll also have a chance to ask questions and sense whether this experience calls you.
We welcome only 60 participants.
The group is intentionally intimate — to preserve the quality of attention, guidance, and deep personal work with each person.
The group is intentionally intimate — to preserve the quality of attention, guidance, and deep personal work with each person.
Yes — but we encourage presence.
Nothing replaces the energy of being together: the conversations between sessions, the subtle chemistry of real connection.
Zoom connects us, but the in-person gatherings spark the kind of alchemy where real change begins.
Nothing replaces the energy of being together: the conversations between sessions, the subtle chemistry of real connection.
Zoom connects us, but the in-person gatherings spark the kind of alchemy where real change begins.
You’ll be supported by the Materium team — mentors, facilitators, and creators who have walked this path themselves.
They hold the space for your process with care, insight, and creative precision.
They hold the space for your process with care, insight, and creative precision.
For any questions or technical issues, write to support: support@materium.ru — we’re always here and happy to help.
Organization Information
Sole Proprietor Tatyana Nikolaevna Sharonova
Legal address:
Moscow, 11th Parkovaya St., 34, bldg. 11
Moscow, 11th Parkovaya St., 34, bldg. 11
TIN 380507633610
PSRNSP 315505000002563
PSRNSP 315505000002563