Futures mundane is a lab for experiential futures and policy design with a mission to drive sustainability transformations. We work with governments, NGOs and international organisations - who share our societal mission.

We work with collectives and groups to amplify our work, such as Falay Transition Design collective during 2024-2025.

We work together with

Futures

Futures do not just happen to us but we can have agency in creating them. Our attitudes, values, hopes and assumptions shape the futures. Our actions and decisions today make futures happen. There are many futures, because futures happen unevenly.

Our approach to futures includes:

  • collective imagination and storytelling

  • experiential futures and future prototypes

  • futures bias and metanarratives

  • multispecies and non-human stakeholders

  • powers of ten and lenses

Our methods

Policy

Public policy processes and policy impact can benefit from design approaches and deep participation. Policy design is a framework and expertise that help policy makers design policies and policy delivery with evidence, participation, experimentation and creativity.

Our approach to policy design:

  • transforming the policy process

  • interdisciplinary evidence-based decision-making

  • collective imagination of hopeful futures

  • introducing a multispecies, more-than-human approach

  • participatory governance and lived experience

Sustainability transitions

Sustainable and just futures are not just a technological challenge, but a social, economical and governance challenge. Transitions are systems level transformations from current dominant systems to emerging ones.

Our approach to sustainability transitions:

  • systems thinking and complexity science

  • multi-level model of system innovation, 3 horizons and Berkana two loops

  • multispecies and more-than-human

  • decolonisation and plurality

  • everyday life and cities