Our approach

Experiential futures

Often future scenarios remain either too abstract or too technical - staying distant to citizens, who are not able or interested to participate with opinions and ideas. We explore how futures prototyping, collective imagination and experiential futures could make futures more accessible and participatory.

Examples of our work:

  • Room 2050 with Finnish Prime Minister’s Office and Expert Panel on Sustainable Development

  • Futures simulation for National Commission on Sustainable Development

  • Futures afternoon at Museum of Technology

Policy design

We work with governments to develop better policies through participation, futures and systems change.

Examples of our work:

  • Leadership programme supporting Latvia 2050 - national strategy for sustainable development

  • Finnish Food Strategy 2040 implementation and systems change

  • Systems steward coaching for Finnish child protection innovation programme Soila

  • Article for Sitra: Learnings from 8 Finnish government innovation labs.

Systems change

Driving sustainability transformations is about systems change. Working at different levels of the system - from grassroots to strategy levels is needed to drive change and transitions.

Examples of our work:

  • Scaling social innovations for youth wellbeing with Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and Itla

  • Päijänne-linja - a high school programme combining futures skills, nature and sailing.

  • Transition village Jupperi - a climate participation experiment in Espoo.

Lab

Our lab is a platform for experimentation, shared learning and communities.

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  • Our lab develops new recipes for change and experiments on frameworks.

    Currently we are working on recipes around:

    • Experiential futures: futures prototyping and collective imagination

    • Policy design for futures, participation and multispecies.

    • Inner development, embodied practices combined with sustainability and futures education for young people

  • Articles about service design, strategic design and government. Free content.

    Go to Medium

  • Work in progress... Soon, you will be able to subscripe to our paid content on Substack. This will include curation of interesting topics and a selection of in-depth articles.

  • We are facilitating and holding space for communities in practice. Currently, we have two active communities:

    • Nordic Baltic Design in Government community

    • EU policy design community