Designing a Metaverse Community Experience

🔍 Context In collaboration with a regional ELCA office and a design agency specializing in virtual reality, this project explored how young adults (ages 18–30) seek spiritual connection beyond traditional religious spaces. We used a human-centered design sprint process to understand this demographic’s values, needs, and pain points around community and spirituality—and to co-create a virtual reality (VR) prototype of a faith-inspired, interest-based digital environment. The initiative combined discovery research, ideation, and iterative VR prototyping to test how new expressions of spiritual community might emerge in the metaverse.