The founderCristobal Catalan
Founder · PhD, University of YorkI came to mental health through film. Fifteen years of documentary and creative direction — the BBC, English National Ballet, the London 2012 Olympics — taught me how a story earns someone's attention. A PhD at the University of York taught me what happens when you point that craft at anxiety, and how to test whether it works rather than assume it does.
Liminal Senses is where those two trainings meet: arts-institution craft, academic rigour, and consumer products that have actually shipped. Very few people work at that intersection. It is the whole reason the studio exists.
DoctorateHealth sciences and Interactive Technologies, University of York — Developing a design framework for open-world, story-led games for anxiety
AlsoMA with Distinction: Anthropology and Global Media (SOAS)
PublishedProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · The Lancet Psychiatry (2019, 2021)
ShippedCount Sheep ASMR Relax · BoxHead — iOS and Android
Available forConsulting · Research collaboration · Speaking · Studio partnerships

