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 offers design-driven methods and storytelling processes for transformative change, grounded in systemic leadership and design thinking.
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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----
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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----
How can we make the complex and often overwhelming findings of the IPCC’s latest report connect with people? The Climate Expedition, a project involving students at the Royal Danish Academy, aims to do just that by transforming dense scientific analyses into creative and accessible formats that inspire both understanding and action.
By Jakob Ion Wille----Published On: May 14th, 2024----Categories: Events----Tags: Collaboration, Education, Experimentation, Future Design, Human culture, Planetary Boundaries, Social Movements, Story telling, System thinking----
Engaging and inspiring everybody to think and act for the future. What we do and don’t in life, echoes in eternity so the future is our client.
By Christian Faber----Published On: April 26th, 2024----Categories: Cases----Tags: Art, Experimentation, Human culture, Story telling, Sustainability, technology, Transforming Humanity----
In a world rife with global crises, from political turmoil to humanitarian disasters, there’s a growing realization that traditional approaches may no longer suffice. We have to expand the way we think, beyond the known limitations of our conscious mind.
By Louise Mazanti----Published On: April 2nd, 2024----Categories: Viewpoints----Tags: Human culture, mindwork, Social Movements, Transforming Humanity----
The video installation aims to promote a new design paradigm with a shift in focus from the human scale and human preferences and needs to a life- or planet-centred view
By Ida Engholm----Published On: August 14th, 2024----Categories: Art projects----Tags: Art, Earth Wisdom, Engagement, Experimentation, Human culture, Social Movements, Sustainability, Transforming Humanity----
A collaboration between art, architecture, and the local community gave birth to a breathtaking space to discuss and explore the deeper dimensions of sustainability
By Morten Meldgaard----Published On: April 22nd, 2024----Categories: Art projects----Tags: Art, Earth Wisdom, Engagement, Experimentation, Human culture, Social Movements, Sustainability, Transforming Humanity----
Three playful provocative, interactive commentaries on systemic issues of consumption, capitalism and sustainability
By Jakob Ion Wille----Published On: April 26th, 2024----Categories: Events----Tags: Art, Collaboration, Engagement, Experimentation, Future Design, Innovation, Prototyping, Social Movements, Story telling, Sustainability, System thinking----
