Futures mundane is a strategic partner and a lab for futures, policy, sustainability and technology. We work with governments and international organisations - and anyone with a societal mission.

We work with collectives and groups to amplify our work. As part of Falay Transition Design collective, we are bridging the gap in creativity for sustainability transformations. This includes work with collective imagination, futures prototypes and embodied methods.

We work together with

Futures

Futures do not just happen to us but we can have agency in creating them. Our attitudes, values, hopes and assumptions share the futures. Our actions and decisions today make futures happen. There are many futures, because futures happen unevenly.

Our approach to futures includes:

  • collective imagination and storytelling

  • experiental futures and future prototypes

  • futures bias and metanarratives

  • multispecies and non-human stakeholders

  • powers of ten and lenses

Our approach

Policy

Public policy processes and policy impact can benefit from design approaches and deep participation. Policy design is a framework and expertise that help policy makers design policies and policy delivery with evidence, participation, experimentation and creativity.

Our approach to policy design:

  • lived experience, qualitative research, ethnography, participation

  • mission-led, portfolio based

  • anticipatory governance and futures

  • innovation for policy process

  • capability building

Sustainability transitions

Sustainable and just futures are not just a technological challenge, but a social, economical and governance challenge. Transitions are systems level transformation from current dominant systems to emerging ones.

Our approach to sustainability transitions:

  • systems thinking and complexity science

  • multi-level model of system innovation

  • 3 horizons

  • multispecies and non-human stakeholders

  • decolonisation and plurality

  • everyday life and cities

Technology

New technologies and digital transformation are shaping our organisations and societies. Yet, there is a gap between the hype and real impact. We are interested in technology innovation and data policy that have a social mission.

Our approach to technology:

  • data ecosystems

  • digital futures visions

  • experimentation

  • ethics in data and AI

  • intersection between enteprise architecture and service design

Strategic design

Strategic design works with complex systems. This can mean using design for organisational strategy, public policy or a phenonema level issue or a wicked problem.

Our approach to strategic design:

  • public systemic design

  • systems oriented design

  • strategy process

  • policy design

  • legal design

  • organisational design