DESIGN CONSULTANCY
Our design consultancy service helps organisations to understand, imagine and create sustainable and equitable futures. Through our playful, workshop-based studio approach, we make speculative design an accessible tool to address significant challenges and to help achieve strategic coals.
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WHAT WE OFFER
REFRAMING COMPLEX CHALLENGES
Our transdisciplinary, research-driven practice will give you deep insights and new perspectives on the complex challenges your organisation faces.
ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
We developed a framework that helps you to engage with complexity in diverse, holistic ways that emphasise the more than human world, helping you to achieve equitable and sustainable outcomes.
DESIGN-LED EXPLORATION
We use design to bring concepts to life through artefacts and prototypes, building a bridge between speculative ideas and real-world outcomes.
PLAYFUL TOOLS AND METHODS
We design creative playsets and games for rich idea generation, collaborative exploration and engagement with complex ideas.
SPECULATIVE AND FUTURES THINKING
We help you to explore multiple futures, by challenging your assumptions and allowing you to ask how things could be different.
STORYTELLING AND WORLDBUILDING
We use collaborative storytelling as a way to co-create and test richly-detailed alternative futures, exploring possible impacts through narrative techniques.
FACILITATE COLLABORATION
Our workshop-led approach provides space for groups and teams to build capacities, explore complex ideas, and imagine and create future scenarios together.
PARTICIPATORY ENGAGEMENT
We help you to share your visions and ideas persuasively to decision makers and the public through creative outputs, experiences, and events.
OUR SERVICES
Our studio practice centres on creative workshops that help you to collaboratively create visions of sustainable and equitable futures, and explore them through imaginative design challenges. Our workshops can be standalone events, and also form the starting point for consultancy recommendations, short design sprints or longer-term design projects.
All of our services start with a free consultation call and a lightning report highlighting key organisation challenges and our recommendations.
FREE REPORT
Starting from a short call or meeting, we provide a one page lightning consultation report, identifying key organisational challenges and proposing what we can offer to help.
DESIGN SPRINT
A short design project to address a well-defined organisational question, producing experimental design prototypes, and short engagement outcomes.
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
Our playful workshops help you to collaborate to share ideas and imagine better futures through gameplay, storytelling and design. Ideal for creative inspiration, team building and idea generation.
DESIGN PROJECT
A longer design project to engage with more complex challenges, leading to design objects, bespoke tools, games and card decks, new services, and engagement events.
GAMES AND PLAYSETS
We can create bespoke games, playsets, and card decks for colllaborative storytelling, productive play and design futures.
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COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS
CONSULTATIONS
We can conduct deep contextual research to better understand the challenges you face, producing a detailed report and a series of recommendations.
STRATEGIC SUPPORT
Longer term strategic support, cultural and educational programme design, research partnerships and designer residencies