Julia Emiko is a multidisciplinary creative director and image researcher based in São Paulo, originally from Mato Grosso do Sul, a contrast that continues to shape the way she sees fashion, identity, and visual culture. Guided by an instinct for building imagetic universes, her work moves through fashion, narrative, symbolism, and the emotional codes found in both personal connections and urban life.

Estúdio Lâmina is an independent cultural venue in a 1940s building in São Paulo’s historic center. It opened in 2011 as a house-gallery, creative studio and artist residency, and has spent the last decade becoming one of the main houses of the city’s underground.

5 Places in São Paulo for the 5 Senses with Filipa Aurélio

Tatiana is São Paulo in human form, layered, electric, impossible to pin down. Founder of Alma, an experience atelier crafting immersive celebrations and culturally rich experiences for brands and private clients, event producer, former bar and restaurant owner, co-creator of underground party label MBR, experience designer, mother, and children’s book author, she moves effortlessly between chaos and curation. Tatiana turns moments into stories people never forget. Fueled by the ecstatic rhythm of São Paulo and grounded by the silence of discovery, she creates with soul, edge, and a little bit of beautiful disorder. For her IRL list, Tatiana curates spots in São Paulo that give you more than what you came for.

Pista Quente is a DJ duo and nomadic party pushing a vibrant and genre-fluid sound across Brazil's dancefloors.

The founder of LAN Party and content strategist for MUTEK Japan shares his daily Tokyo loop.

Calling all clubs, listening bars, galleries and artist-run spaces

Anyone who's been there knows Miami is a vibe.

Little Havana born and raised, Nicholas G Padilla/ngp is an Interdisciplinary Artist, Producer/DJ, Researcher, Consultant and Technologist. He's a founder of Miami Community Radio (MCR) and Touring Tools. He's released music on Schematic Records, Danny Daze's label Omnidisc and is an RBMA alumni.

Boiler Room, CTM, and the clubs that still feel like the edge of the map - Berlin through Michail Stangl's lens.

From synth shops to sake bars, Craig maps the Berlin that shapes how he sees and makes. For our IRL Map to Berlin, Craig shares seven spots across the city, from the world’s most famous synth shop to a hidden art space on the Spree.

For the IRL Map to Montréal, Kelly Nunes shares five spaces that feed his creative practice — the galleries, studios, and corners of the city that shape how he sees and makes work.

For this IRL Map to Montréal, James shares six spots that keep him grounded in the city — the places he returns to between sessions, sets, and everything in between.

Sarah MacKenzie shares five spaces that anchor her creative life in the city — the places where art, technology, and community converge.

For the IRL Map to Montreal, EKITWANDA shares five spots that ground her in the city. The places she returns to between sets, sessions, and everything in between.

A reflection on the decline of independent cultural spaces, the impact of algorithmic and extractive systems, and the need for new models that support artists, venues, and communities.

Maachew Bentley is a cultural polyglot within the orbits of music and visual arts. In a city that rewards speed, he builds a case for sitting still, with his 7 local picks for NYC.

Dave Krugman is a New York-based photographer, writer, and the founder of ALLSHIPS — a creative community built on the idea that a rising tide raises all ships. Here are 5 spots he keeps coming back to.

Danielle Paterson is a London and New York–based curator, advisor, and researcher working at the intersection of art, technology, business, and social culture. For IRL, she hand-picks 17 spots for a day circuit as a freelancer in Lower Manhattan.

Jiminal is a DJ and founder of FERMI, a party collective from Amsterdam, throwing intimate gatherings in dreamlike places.

LORACLE is a Denver based DJ and producer known for her dynamic, and immersive sets that encompass shadowy depths of moody bass lines and hypnotic grooves.

Meniac is a DJ and co-founder of FERMI. Born from a desire to connect Amsterdam with Asia’s soulful underground, FERMI focuses on small, intimate gatherings where music, design, and people collide naturally. These are the rooms and kitchens that shape Meniac’s Amsterdam.

IRL Art is a collective of artists working at the intersection of physical and digital with a focus on high-impact projects around the globe, headquartered in Denver and Kansas City. They share five spaces in Denver that reflect art, community, and cultural exchange in the city.

Jordan Hubner has helped shape one of Denver’s most intentional listening environments through esp — a space rooted in Japanese kissa culture and hi-fi sound. He shares a few places that represent culture and connection in Denver.

Working across sculpture, video, creative coding, and interactive installation, Chris Coleman moves between physical and digital worlds.

Sunshine Vendetta has spent most of their life building physical experiences, from early underground parties to large-scale productions, and later through music, internet-native projects, and experimental systems across art and culture.