Annabelle Schneider is a Swiss-born, New York-based experience designer and artist known for creating transformative spaces that blend physical and virtual realms, fostering emotional connection, presence, and well-being.

She holds graduate degrees in Strategic Design Management from HSLU Luzern and Interior Design from Parsons New York, where she also teaches design studios.

Annabelle Schneider redefines spatial design through immersive environments that integrate technology with tactile materials, sound, scent, light, and movement. Her cocooning exhibition BEING in Bed (2023–2024), blending virtual reality with reactive physical fabrics, was featured at SWAB Contemporary Art Fair in Barcelona and Alcova during Art Basel Miami.

Her tactile bubbles and clouds in soft motion, composed of air, fabrics, light, and a hint of hope through choreographed layers of sound and scent, debuted with the title BREATHE WITH ME at NYCxDESIGN (2024–ongoing). The project resonated globally and evolved in form and experience in relation to context and collaborators.  This experiential space for slowing down and grounded reflection has been presented in Barcelona, Tashkent, Dubai, during Art Basel in Switzerland, and for three months on Mount Pilatus.

Most recently, Annabelle Schneider further expanded the concept of the breathing installation in collaboration with Snøhetta for USM. RENAISSANCE OF THE REAL debuted at Milan Design Week (2026).

Her interactive installations invite participants into immersive environments shaped by soft forms, tactile materials, ethereal light, sound, and scent. Through bold spatial gestures, her work creates spaces that feel both grounding and speculative: environments that foster safety, play, reflection, and emotional connection. Blurring the line between reality and utopia, these experiences aim to shift perception, encourage presence, and momentarily transport visitors into alternative ways of feeling, relating, and imagining collective futures.

With a background spanning branding, installations, and design management, Schneider’s collaborative approach has led to experiential interiors, stages, and spatial concepts for brands and institutions including Vitra, LAUFEN, Snarkitecture, Off-White, Ron Zacapa, Vanderbilt University, Die Mobiliar, and LUZI.

Her studio explores how immersive design can deepen the relationship between people, space, and story across both physical and digital realms.

Collaborating with partners ranging from global brands to healing institutions, Annabelle Schneider creates inclusive, multi-sensory environments that explore how design can foster emotional resonance, human connection, and new ways of imagining collective well-being at both intimate and large scales.

Her work ultimately asks how spatial art and design can help us find calm in a world of constant unpredictability, reconnect with our bodies and senses, and create moments of reflection, imagination, and hope within rapidly evolving realities.

TALKS + HONORS

Annabelle Schneider regularly shares her expertise on design, art, and well-being through teaching, guest lectures, and public or corporate speaking engagements and workshops. She has been invited as a speaker, panelist, and mentor at leading design institutions, international festivals and companies.