planetary
dreaming
Designing the future
planetary
dreaming
Designing the future
We are facing an unprecedented number of crises. These are complex, mutually reinforcing, and accelerating.
However, crises can also be transformed into opportunities.
This is the mission of Planetary Dreaming
Planetary Dreaming is a research-based platform offering methods, tools and perspectives for exploring how design, architecture, art and storytelling can expand our capacity to imagine – and shape – alternative planetary futures.
Explore tools and methods
Use design to make circular choices intuitive and desirable. The Circular Behavior Toolkit helps integrate behavioral insights for a regenerative future.
By Mia Steentoft----Published On: March 9th, 2025----Categories: Tools----Tags: Behavior, Circular Economy, Collaboration, Education, Experimentation, Future Design, Innovation, Prototyping, Sustainability, System thinking----
Enhance creativity and mental balance with art- and nature-based methods that foster deep reflection, new insights, and a holistic approach to transformation.
By Annegrete Mølhave----Published On: March 9th, 2025----Categories: Tools----Tags: Art, Earth Wisdom, Human culture, mindwork, Social Movements, Transforming Humanity----
Rethink fashion’s future with a speculative design toolkit. Use future stories, critical questions, and strategy tools to explore what the future of fashion could look like.
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: September 1st, 2024----Categories: Tools----Tags: Education, Future Design, Human culture, Social Movements, Story telling, Sustainability, technology, Transforming Humanity----
DesignWISE is a research-based tool rooted in design thinking and systemic leadership. It is an invitation to reflect on the interrelations between consciousness and matter, the internal and external aspects of all forms of design
By Ida Engholm----Published On: May 14th, 2024----Categories: Tools----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Human culture, Innovation, mindwork, Organizational change, Sustainability, System thinking, Theory of change, Transforming Humanity----
A Guide to Facilitating Imagination-Driven Workshops for Envisioning Alternative Futures through Collective Dreaming: Exploring the Concept of Planetary Dreaming.
By Ida Engholm----Published On: April 22nd, 2024----Categories: Tools----Tags: Collaboration, Future Design, Human culture, Innovation, mindwork, Prototyping, Social Movements, Transforming Humanity----
Crating new worlds lies at the core of storytelling and envisioning future scenarios. Begin your journey of crafting inspiring universes with this tool.
By Jakob Ion Wille----Published On: April 10th, 2024----Categories: Tools----Tags: Collaboration, Future Design, Prototyping, Transforming Humanity----
Video demonstrating an innovative teaching format, based on earth wisdom traditions that can enhance our ability to work together, create together and make change together.
By Morten Meldgaard----Published On: April 5th, 2024----Categories: Tools----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Education, Engagement, Innovation, Theory of change, Transforming Humanity----
Use the Three Horizons Model to Strategically Navigate Systemic Change: Balancing Immediate Actions with Long-Term Sustainability Goals
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: April 12th, 2024----Categories: Tools----Tags: Future Design, Innovation, Organizational change, System thinking, Theory of change----
Other resources
At Roskilde Festival 2025, students built a temporary train station: collective design, circular principles, and community in action.
By Morten Meldgaard----Published On: September 18th, 2025----Categories: Cases----Tags: Collaboration, Education, Human culture, Innovation, Story telling, Sustainability----
Experience future generations reacting on present day designers redesigning the foundations of design to include all life on Earth.
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: April 25th, 2025----Categories: Events----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Future Design, Innovation, Story telling, Sustainability, System thinking, Transforming Humanity----
An exhibition exploring fashion’s future through imagined designers, collective visions, and AI-crafted narratives that rethink responsibility in fashion.
By Ida Engholm----Published On: March 18th, 2025----Categories: Events----Tags: Art, Engagement, Future Design, Human culture, Innovation, Planetary Boundaries, Story telling, Sustainability, technology----
A global workshop exploring how design and indigenous wisdom can help us navigate uncertainty and foster meaningful, future-shaping conversations.
By Ida Engholm----Published On: March 18th, 2025----Categories: Events----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, mindwork, Social Movements, Sustainability----
Rethinking city walls as thriving ecosystems—Atelier for Byers Rum envisions urban boundaries that foster nature, community, and sustainability by 2050.
By Atelier for Byers Rum----Published On: March 13th, 2025----Categories: Cases----Tags: Collaboration, Engagement, Future Design, Human culture, Story telling, Transforming Humanity----
A single day can spark transformation. Fashion Dreaming reimagines fashion as a shared habitat, bridging imagination and action through storytelling and ritual.
By Maia Frid----Published On: March 9th, 2025----Categories: Viewpoints----Tags: Collaboration, Engagement, Future Design, Human culture, Story telling, Sustainability, technology, Transforming Humanity----
Embrace the fear and uncertainty of the polycrisis by building agency and resilience through creative workshops that connect with eco-emotions.
By Sara D'Angelo----Published On: February 12th, 2025----Categories: Events----Tags: Collaboration, Future Design, Social Movements, Story telling, Sustainability, Transforming Humanity, Trust----
Dreaming Waterspace is a playful, associative journey exploring water and the spaces above, within, and below it, experienced as a dynamic phenomenon.
By Anders Hermund----Published On: February 6th, 2025----Categories: Art projects----Tags: Art, Earth Wisdom, Engagement, Experimentation, Human culture, Social Movements, Sustainability, Transforming Humanity----
Discover how DesignWISE fosters sustainable design by bridging Eastern and Western wisdom, breaking down hierarchies, and enabling collective innovation.
By Mai Sakamoto----Published On: November 17th, 2024----Categories: Viewpoints----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Future Design, Organizational change, Transforming Humanity, Trust----
Rootnet of Dreams is a workshop format designed to inspire and sustain conversations about the future, fostering reflection and engagement to envision positive change for both ourselves and the planet.
By Frida Brock Jeppesen----Published On: August 30th, 2024----Categories: Art projects----Tags: Art, Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Engagement, Human culture, Social Movements, Transforming Humanity----
Fashion professionals envision the substantial strides they've made as they look back from the future, having fundamentally transformed the industry.
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: August 4th, 2024----Categories: Events----Tags: Education, Future Design, Human culture, Social Movements, Story telling, Sustainability, technology, Transforming Humanity----
At Clever, the largest provider of charge points and e-mobility operator in the Nordic region, design, architecture, and biodiversity conservation are employed to facilitate societal change through sustainable mobility solutions.
By Ida Engholm----Published On: June 9th, 2024----Categories: Cases----Tags: Case, Collaboration, Innovation, Organizational change, Sustainability, technology----
