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Brian Frandsen

Professor of design theory and design history of The Royal Danish Academy.

  • Events

    Pop-Up Exhibition: Fashion Dreaming

    Pop-Up Exhibition: Fashion Dreaming

    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----
  • Events

    DesignMATTERS: Designing for Planet A

    DesignMATTERS: Designing for Planet A

    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----
  • Cases

    Reimagining Mobility Infrastructure: Clever’s holistic approach to e-mobility

    Reimagining Mobility Infrastructure: Clever’s holistic approach to e-mobility

    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----
  • Art projects

    Create to Regenerate

    Create to Regenerate

    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----
  • Tools

    DesignWISE – How Can We Create to Regenerate?

    DesignWISE – How Can We Create to Regenerate?

    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----
  • Events, Viewpoints

    Keynote presentation slides: About Planetary Dreaming

    Keynote presentation slides: About Planetary Dreaming

    Keynote presentation: About Planetary Dreaming. Introduction by Ida Engholm and Jakob Ion Wille. Explore slideshow and presentation notes.

    By Ida Engholm----Published On: April 17th, 2024----Categories: Events, Viewpoints----Tags: Collaboration, Engagement, Future Design, Human culture, Innovation, Planetary Boundaries, Social Movements, Sustainability, System thinking, Transforming Humanity----
  • Tools

    Speculative Everything: Create a Circle of Planetary Dreamers

    Speculative Everything: Create a Circle of Planetary Dreamers

    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----
  • Viewpoints

    Planetary Boundaries

    Planetary Boundaries

    Turning boundaries into opportunities

    By Ida Engholm----Published On: January 19th, 2024----Categories: Viewpoints----Tags: New Economy, Planetary Boundaries, Sustainability----
  • Viewpoints

    The Anthropocene

    The Anthropocene

    For better or worse, humans are capable of shaping our future

    By Ida Engholm----Published On: March 19th, 2024----Categories: Viewpoints----Tags: Human culture, Sustainability, Theory of change, Transforming Humanity----
  • Viewpoints

    Immune systems at work

    Immune systems at work

    In systems thinking, the metaphors are necessarily flipped, so what we perceive as the system's immune response, designed to protect us from dangerous viruses, is what prevents innovation. Our resilience is the problem.

    By Ida Engholm----Published On: March 19th, 2024----Categories: Viewpoints----Tags: Engagement, Organizational change, System thinking, Theory of change----
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Planetary Dreaming: Designing the Future is a collaborative initiative uniting designers, architects, artists, and professionals from development and innovation-oriented sectors around shared climate goals and solutions. Founded at the Royal Danish Academy, Planetary Dreaming is bringing together institutions and stakeholders in design, architecture, and art, and will over the coming time expand to include more private and public actors. The initiative aims to promote a global exchange of tools and resources, communicate knowledge on climate action and sustainability solutions, and activate climate awareness through the narrative power of design, art, and storytelling.

Take a look around and access resources, knowledge, and collaborative engagement opportunities.

Read more about Planetary Dreaming

Planetary Dreaming: Designing the Future is a collaborative initiative uniting designers, architects, artists, and professionals from development and innovation-oriented sectors around shared climate goals and solutions. Founded at the Royal Danish Academy, Planetary Dreaming is bringing together institutions and stakeholders in design, architecture, and art, and will over the coming time expand to include more private and public actors. The initiative aims to promote a global exchange of tools and resources, communicate knowledge on climate action and sustainability solutions, and activate climate awareness through the narrative power of design, art, and storytelling.

Take a look around and access resources, knowledge, and collaborative engagement opportunities.

Read more about Planetary Dreaming

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