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Design ✷ Research ✷ Imagination
for Climate Resilience and Hopeful Futures
by @savannahvize
cofounder @futuresfolk

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🔦 Project Spotlight: Niin Luonto Vastaa / As Nature Answers 🔦

Collective imagination practitioners @iinesrein, @sooon.studio and Zeynep Falay von Flittner have been exploring the potential of intentionally creating new language reflecting the multiplicity of nature relationships and interactions.

Across collaborative workshops and research, they have been exploring how collective imagination and participatory language-making can help articulate and form a shared understanding of what is felt, and yet unnamed: grief, care, kinship and the complexity of experiences which shape our societal entanglement with the natural world.

In their workshop process they looked for shared experiences to describe, and participants consistently found themselves reaching for language that expressed the complexity of emotions felt in connection with the natural world. Joy, wonder, awe and appreciation were contrasted with feelings of shame and disconnect. New terms were developed and defined, each one carrying an intention to name, to confront, or to imagine differently. Some words sought to more accurately describe the present, giving language to emotions and realities often left unspoken.

The participants effectively formed political imaginations of several key issues within the current system, and what a more desired eco-social reality would be like, connected by changes in language as an intervention point.

Read more on this work via the link in our bio 🔗 scroll down to the ‘writings from our community’ section on our LinkTree.

📸 Savannah Vize @sooon.studio

#imagination #collective #language #ecologicalimagination #funding by @sooon.studio

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6 months ago

Futures Folk ry is a nonprofit expert association, founded to advance democratization of regenerative futures. We believe that futures should not be shaped by a few, but imagined and built collectively.
Our work focuses on making scientific knowledge accessible, while expanding and diversifying the very knowledge base that informs decisions about our shared futures. Our philosophy emphasizes creative and participatory approaches.

Our board includes communication, design, and regenerative futures experts Andrea Gilly, Iines Reinikainen and Savannah Vize.

What to expect?
In our first year, we are building for long-term impact. We will focus on collaborating with other associations and organizations to provide education for staff and volunteers, as well as practical support in project work. Alongside this, we are preparing to launch our own initiatives aligned with our key impact areas.

We warmly welcome conversations with collaborators who share our commitment to more inclusive and regenerative futures. Feel free to get in touch with us by email: futuresfolk@proton.me

🐰 Keep up to date with us!
Follow us on Instagram to stay connected with our work, reflections, and insights on democratizing futures. You can also find us on Linkedin, and on Substack, where our upcoming newsletter will dive deeper into our thinking and projects. Links in the bio!
Our website is currently in development, and we look forward to sharing more soon. by @sooon.studio

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✨ A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for The Futures We Create workshops at @emmamuseum last week

Over two sessions, we welcomed 20 participants to explore eco-emotions and imagined hopeful futures together through storytelling, imagination and futures thinking. It was a joy to share space and creativity with each of you 🌱💭

We’re especially grateful to the @espooesbo for selecting our work as part of Future Stories Art Mobs, and to the incredible team at @emmamuseum for so generously hosting us in the beautiful Luova room. Your support, attention to detail, and belief in our work made these workshops possible 🙏

The positive feedback has left us feeling re-inspired to apply for further funding, so that we can hopefully welcome even more people into future workshops ✨

We leave feeling grateful, energised, and hopeful for the futures we can create together. We look forward to sharing the stories collected in the workshops with you soon 🔮

#FuturesWeCreate #FutureStories #KulttuuriEspoo #CommunityArt #HopefulFutures #EcoEmotions #Storytelling taken in EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art by @sooon.studio

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After 5 incredible years in Helsinki, I’ll be moving to #Copenhagen this October 🇫🇮 ➡️ 🇩🇰

Helsinki, my wonderful colleagues and connections, and the Aalto CS community I first moved here for, have shaped me and my practice in countless ways. I will miss Finland immensely, but it's time for a new chapter.

In Copenhagen, I’m especially looking to make new connections and collaborations around:
🌱 Social and collective imagination
🌍 Climate resilience and adaptation
🤝 Community engagement
🔎 Design research

This is both through my independent practice as a designer-researcher, and with @falaydesign, as we’d love to expand our work into the Danish context.

I’ll also be continuing my freelance #visualdesign practice with a focus on eco-social sustainability, working on projects like sustainability reporting, illustration, and climate education resources.

💛 I’d love to start building my network in Copenhagen and Denmark, so if you’re in these spaces, or know someone I should meet, please connect us. I’d be delighted to start booking in some coffee dates from November onwards 🇩🇰

Feel free to tag people in the comments or reach out directly ✨ taken in Copenhagen, Dennmark by @sooon.studio

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a year ago

🌱✨ We’re excited to be a part of this year's Espoo’s Future Stories Art Mobs!

From August to November, 10 artists + collectives are bringing small-scale art events across Espoo — all exploring themes of sustainability and the future. 🌍💭 From caravan plays to forest parties, plastic transformations to motion-responsive installations, the programme is full of creative ways to imagine what lies ahead.

We’ll be hosting The Futures We Create workshops at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art:
📅 Thu 18 Sep | 13:30–17:00
📅 Fri 19 Sep | 15:00–18:30
📅 Sun 21 Sep | 12:30–16:30

Spots are limited, so make sure to register at bit.ly/espoofutures

Our workshops invite participants to explore eco-emotions and collectively imagine hopeful futures through storytelling, imagination and futures thinking. Free, inclusive + open to all 💫

Learn more about the full programme 👉 espoo.fi/en/future-stories
#FutureStories #KulttuuriEspoo #FuturesWeCreate #HopefulFutures #CommunityArt by @sooon.studio

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a year ago

🔮 Upcoming in Espoo: The Futures We Create workshops – Writing hopeful futures

Collective members @diorela @savannahvizedesign and @saradangelo_lab are bringing their artist-led workshop series The Futures We Create to Espoo this September, as part of the City of Espoo’s Tulevaisuustarinoiden taideiskut (Art Strikes of Future Stories) programme!

These 3.5-hour in-person workshops explore eco-emotions and guide participants into hopeful futures—through storytelling, creativity and futures thinking ✨

🗓️ September 18, 19 & 21 (see times at registration link)
📍 @emmamuseum
🎟️ Free & open to all
🌍 Facilitated in English (but any language welcome)

We especially invite those feeling eco-anxiety or longing for new ways to imagine and connect 🌱

🔗 Register at bit.ly/espoofutures
ℹ️ More info about the project at falaydesign.com and over on our medium account

#futureswecreate #collectiveimagination #ecoemotions #hopefulfutures #espoo #artivism #creativeworkshops @espooesbo taken in EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art by @sooon.studio

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🌊 Searching for UCEs through the sea mist 🌊

Yesterday, our first Niin Meri Vastaa workshop took us memory-foraging to the sea, through a meditative journey carried by sea mist.

Together we searched for UCEs (Unidentified Collective Entities): shared sensations, relationships, and moments with the sea that had no name in any of our languages.

Then we gave them names.
New words. New stories.
Language for futures of care, reciprocity, and belonging with the living world.

Next, we'll be holding an in-person version of the workshop with friends and collaborators of Falay in Helsinki.
And then… a Dictionary of New Words for Nature Relationality.

Thanks to all who attended, and gratitude as always to the #CollectiveImaginationPracticeCommunity for funding this exploratory work A blue UFO floats and beams up 3 metallic mackerel, with some seaweed beneath by @sooon.studio

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💡 Huone 2050: Astu sisään tulevaisuuteen ja koe kestävä elämä vuonna 2050!
✨ Room 2050: Step into the future and experience sustainable living in 2050!

🗓 25–26 May
🕛 12:00–19:00
📍 Oodi Library, Kuutio (2nd floor)

After months of co-creation, deep listening, and speculative prototyping, we're thrilled to finally share Huone 2050 with the public next weekend!

Designed with the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development (Kestävyyspaneeli), this immersive installation invites you to explore everyday life in a just, sustainable Finland, all set in the year 2050.

✨ Big thanks to:
@demoshelsinki (vision & research),
MUST project (soundscape),
@artekhelsinki & @artek2ndcycle (furniture),
Kalle Oja (build support),
Suomen IT-vuokraus Oy (tech)

#Huone2050 #Kestävyysmurros #Room2050 #TransitionDesign #SustainableFutures #FalayTransitionDesign #Oodi #SpeculativeDesign #MultispeciesFutures #ElinvoimainenTulevaisuus taken in Oodi Central Library Helsinki by @sooon.studio

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Why we all should become dreamers? 💭 ✨
Imagination is not only fun but also a skill for transformation, a route for understanding the current and shaping new sustainable futures. But like any muscle, it needs practice.

💡 Do you want to cultivate imagination as a skill – for yourself and those around you?
Join us for Imagination for Lunch, an interactive and thought-provoking digital session designed to spark your creative thinking and expand your sense of possibility. Through hands-on exercises, group discussions, and guided exploration, we’ll dive into:

🔹 What imagination is and why it matters
🔹 How it functions as a tool for change
🔹 How we can develop it – individually and collectively

This isn’t just another webinar. It’s an experience – a mix of play 🎭 and depth 🌱, designed for those who believe a better world starts with bold ideas.

Session Details and registration from the link in BIO!
Friday, April 4th
13:00 EET / 12:00 CET / 11:00 GMT
Duration: 1 hr 20 min (including an optional 20-minute discussion at the end).
Location: Online (link shared after registration).
Sliding Scale Tickets: €20-40

If cost is a barrier, email us at collective@falayconsulting.com—we’d love to make this space accessible to you. by @sooon.studio

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2 years ago

🌱Upcoming workshop on play and sustainability! 🤹‍♀️

How can play help us navigate the overwhelming challenges of sustainability? 🌍 The Environmental Citizen’s Playbook workshop invites you to test, experience, and contribute to research on the power of play for environmental action

This is the final workshop contributing to a conference paper based on my master’s thesis - so your insights will directly shape this research! 📝✨

Together, we’ll:
🔹 Imagine and ideate playful interventions for sustainable action 🎨
🔹 Discuss the value of play in tackling distressing environmental issues 💡
🔹 Explore creative, collective approaches to change 🌍

Details:
📅 Thursday, April 10th
⏰ 16-18 EET / 14-16 GMT
📍 Online (Google Meet)

👉 RSVP here: lnkd.in/da-2cwv5 (or via link in bio)
📖 More about the study: linktr.ee/ecoplaybook

Study supported by @kulttuurirahasto, İdil Gaziulusoy, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Ph.D.

#play #playresearch #imagination #sustainability #environmentalaction #onlineworkshop #workshop by @sooon.studio

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2 years ago

Glimpses from Shepherds Between Worlds: A Ceremony for Letting Go.

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Sunday for the workshop-ceremony. Your presence and support during this first session meant a lot 🍄

Thank you, @diorela, @savannahvizedesign, and @estherhgrossman for sharing your journey with us and contributing to “A river of seeds” 🌱

Thank you, Oksasenkatu 11, for being such a generous space, and @oksasenkatu11 ’s team for trusting me with this cycle of performance-ceremonies 🪷

Thank you, @robancolyer and @savannahvizedesign, for documenting this experience ✨

The next ceremony will happen in June; I will keep you posted 🔥

Un abrazo,
Daniela (o la María de Candama)
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“A river of seeds” consists of four performance-ceremonies to take place at Galleria Oksasenkatu 11 throughout 2025. Together, they explore the themes of death and rebirth, beginnings and endings. Understanding ceremonies as gatherings rooted in gratitude, attention, and connection, the cycle offers audiences an intimate yet collective framework to hope, grieve, celebrate, and release. Each session adopts a particular format —circle, workshop, birthday party, funeral— exploring the intersections between ritual and art, performance and ceremony.

“A river of seeds” is curated by Candama, a semi-fictional agency that offers curating, coaching, and poetic consultancy services. Candama is a project by artist and curator Daniela Pascual Esparza, through which she creates a context for her practice while nurturing collaborations with other artists and professionals. by @sooon.studio

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Meet your hosts for Shepherds Between Worlds: A Ceremony for Letting Go.

🍄 Andrea Gilly Márquez is a Helsinki-based regenerative strategist, speculative designer and futurist who helps people reimagine better-hopeful futures. @diorela uses creative methods, collective imagination and systems understanding to facilitate planet-centric processes.

🌿 Esther Hayes Grossman is a Berlin-based values-driven connector, facilitator and futurist. @estherhgrossman uses human-centered design principles, futures thinking, and play to craft intentional experiences, workshops, and programs which support people and the planet.

🌷Savannah Vize is a regenerative designer and researcher. Touching on artistic, academic and activist modes, @savannahvizedesign advocates for playful, imaginative and emotionally supportive practices in reaching regenerative futures and creating impactful eco-social change.

🌾 Daniela Pascual Esparza is a performer, curator, and urbanist. She brings together different contexts to practice hopeful ways of being. @mariadecandama has experience in consulting, creating participatory performances, working with children, and curating site-specific works.

Our workshop-ceremony is full: thank you, we’re excited to share this experience with you! 🫀 taken in Oksasenkatu 11 by @sooon.studio

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