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 are a social enterprise

What does social enterprise mean?

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Futures mundane is a social enterprise with a mission to drive sustainability transformations. We only work with the public sector, NGOs and other organisations with a social purpose. We work at two levels - at strategic level, we work with systems change and futures to help build pathways to sustainable and just societies and planet. We also work at grassroots to support local communities and youth wellbeing.

How do we use our profit?

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All of our profit is reinvested in our mission - this means that we use it to fund our grassroots activities that don’t yet have enough funding, we fund our work with communities and networks, and also we develop new approaches and methods to our strategic work.

What are the examples?

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See examples of our work in these two categories:

  1. Finnish Food Strategy 2040 - Systems change - Contract income

  2. Experiential futures - Research and method development - Grant applications, self-funding

  3. Päijänne-linja high school programme - Community youth work - Reduced rates, self-funding

  4. Transition Village Jupperi - Community grassroots - Grant applications, self-funding

  5. Nordic Baltic Design in Government - Community of practice - Self-funding

What are our principles?

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We have principles that guide our decision-making when choosing work assignments, partners and how we work with others.

  1. We work with organisations that have a social purpose.

  2. We seek partners that share our mission to drive sustainability transformations.

  3. We work in the open. This means that we share our work in progress and openly share our outputs and methods. We believe this way of working creates more impact.

  4. We are kind and treat our partners, clients and collaborators with care.

  5. We work in a regenerative way.

  6. We respect rest.

  7. Nature is our guide. We value and actively build stronger nature relations.

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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