Explore, Evoke, Evolve
The Guardian Boardroom – a transdisciplinary future prototype brings together Swedish and international actors – presenting an exploratory exhibition on biointelligent futures and new ways of making decisions. Explore, Evoke, Evolve takes you on a journey from today’s linear value chains to circular and regenerative systems.
THE PROJECT: THE GUARDIAN BOARDROOM
reimagines the forestry/bio industry, shifting from an extractive shareholder-driven value chain towards a regenerative stakeholder-led value system. This immersive project explores how current and emerging actors can adapt, thrive, and build resilience in a world shaped by climate change, geopolitical instability, and evolving ecosystem-based governance models.
The project develops prototypes that visualize possible futures; provoke reactions, engage and inspire innovation and change.
THE SCENARIO
THEME: Ekosystemen styr beslutsfattandet
Vi lyckas hålla oss inom de planetära gränserna, stora förändringar inom skogsvärdekedjan
VISION: Sverige blir den första biointelligenta nationen, där en djup förståelse för ekosystemens intelligenta utformning präglar beslutsfattande i värdekedjan. Biointelligens avser integrationen av biologisk kunskap som inspiration i samhällsbyggande och ekonomiska system. Det är förståelsen om ekosystemens intelligenta samverkan mellan organismer, svampnätverk under jorden och näring i det cirkulära kretsloppet.
IMPACT ON SOCIETY: Vändpunkten till att gå mot den biointelligenta nationen, kom efter att Sverige fått känna av stora konsekvenser av klimatförändringarna med flera år av okontrollerbara bränder, värmeböljor och översvämningar. Det rubbade rutiner inom skogsvärdekedjan, tydliggjorde ekonomiska risker som inte tagits höjd för och konsekvenser för samhället. En stark normförändring kom efter att två rättsprocesser gick i mål: samebefolkningen som vill försvara naturens rättigheter och unga som stämt staten för bristande klimatpolitik och hänsyn till biologisk mångfald. Fallen blev prejudicerande och tvingade fram en ny syn på kompetens inom biointelligens. Kan människor med djup förståelse för naturens system hjälpa oss att förebygga kriser? Kompetensen biointelligens blir eftertraktad, där urbefolkning, biodataanalytiker och ekologer anställs på innovationsavdelningar, investeringsbolag, universitet och inom politiken.
Touch the futures
by inviting year 2035 to the present, we can immerse ourselves in it; see it, feel it, smell it, touch it. And from that place make more informed, empathatic and strategic desicions today.
what decisions would you make if you would feel the experience of those most impacted by the decisions?
Welcome Guardian
As a Guardian of ecosystems, this is your standard decision making kit, year 2035
using futures
“[Strategic foresight] is a structured and systematic way of using ideas about the future to anticipate possible opportunities and challenges and better prepare for change.” /OECD
 The Decolonize the Future Acts |  Mycelium Decision Making |  BioCoin |
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 Necklace |  Describe your image |  Describe your image |
extractive >> regenerative
🌲 From a Single Tree: How Much Becomes Waste or By-Product?
Overview (global average from sawmilling, pulping, and logging):
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Rough Cut:
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~ 50–65% of the original tree mass becomes primary product (lumber, pulp, veneer).
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~ 35–50% becomes by-product (bark, sawdust, chips, black liquor, slash, mill sludge).
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Breakdown:
MaterialApprox. Share of Total Tree (%)
Bark10–15%
Sawdust10–20%
Chips (offcuts)5–10%
Black Liquor (liquid by-product)20–30% (from pulping)
Logging Residues (branches, tops)10–15%
Sludge/Other~5%
🧮 Quick Summary:
✅ Approximately 35–50% of a harvested tree is waste or by-product.
In Future Production
What would you create year 2030?
🛠️ Combining Waste Streams: Toward Scalable, Regenerative Techniques
Can waste streams be combined into scalable bio-based recipes?
✅ Absolutely — and wood-based 3D printing is one of the most promising.
Potential Combined Feedstock:
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Sawdust + fine bark powders ➔ for the bulk fiber base.
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Black liquor lignin extracts ➔ as binder, hardener, or additive.
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Wood chips (micro-milled) ➔ for texturing or strengthening filler.
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Mill sludge (processed) ➔ added as biomass fiber for composite blends.
🧪 Key technologies:
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Binder Jetting (bio-binders + wood flour)
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Material Extrusion (wood pulp pastes + lignin adhesives)
THE SCENARIO
THEME: Ekosystemen styr beslutsfattandet
Vi lyckas hålla oss inom de planetära gränserna, stora förändringar inom skogsvärdekedjan
VISION: Sverige blir den första biointelligenta nationen, där en djup förståelse för ekosystemens intelligenta utformning präglar beslutsfattande i värdekedjan. Biointelligens avser integrationen av biologisk kunskap som inspiration i samhällsbyggande och ekonomiska system. Det är förståelsen om ekosystemens intelligenta samverkan mellan organismer, svampnätverk under jorden och näring i det cirkulära kretsloppet.
IMPACT ON SOCIETY: Vändpunkten till att gå mot den biointelligenta nationen, kom efter att Sverige fått känna av stora konsekvenser av klimatförändringarna med flera år av okontrollerbara bränder, värmeböljor och översvämningar. Det rubbade rutiner inom skogsvärdekedjan, tydliggjorde ekonomiska risker som inte tagits höjd för och konsekvenser för samhället. En stark normförändring kom efter att två rättsprocesser gick i mål: samebefolkningen som vill försvara naturens rättigheter och unga som stämt staten för bristande klimatpolitik och hänsyn till biologisk mångfald. Fallen blev prejudicerande och tvingade fram en ny syn på kompetens inom biointelligens. Kan människor med djup förståelse för naturens system hjälpa oss att förebygga kriser? Kompetensen biointelligens blir eftertraktad, där urbefolkning, biodataanalytiker och ekologer anställs på innovationsavdelningar, investeringsbolag, universitet och inom politiken.
The Journey
the project & process
The Journey:
the project & process
2 layered process - in future production
Layer 2: Slow Immersion in Blended Reality
When: 1–2 weeks (late April)
Where: Decentralized physical sites + virtual Boardroom
What: Reference group members, as "Guardians," receive a curated Boardroom Kit with speculative artifacts—bio-based tools, empathy wearables, BioCoins, and more. Through nature immersion and a virtual decision-making simulation (set in 2034), they explore ecosystemic governance and slow thinking strategies to counteract fake news, lobbyism, and polarization.
Exhibition
When: 1–2 weeks (late April)
Where: Decentralized physical sites + virtual Boardroom
What: Reference group members, as "Guardians," receive a curated Boardroom Kit with speculative artifacts—bio-based tools, empathy wearables, BioCoins, and more. Through nature immersion and a virtual decision-making simulation (set in 2034), they explore ecosystemic governance and slow thinking strategies to counteract fake news, lobbyism, and polarization.
Layer 1: Slow Immersion in Blended Reality
When: 1–2 weeks (late April)
Where: Decentralized physical sites + virtual Boardroom
What: Reference group members, as "Guardians," receive a curated Boardroom Kit with speculative artifacts—bio-based tools, empathy wearables, BioCoins, and more. Through nature immersion and a virtual decision-making simulation (set in 2034), they explore ecosystemic governance and slow thinking strategies to counteract fake news, lobbyism, and polarization.
The Reference Group
this project engages industry leaders, indigenous representatives, biomaterial innovators, architects, investors, AI advisors, human rights experts, researchers, decisionmakers, land stewards and multi-species perspectives in a foresight-driven immersive boardroom experience, where decision-making is guided by ecosystem intelligence, AI, regenerative business models and societal resilience. Because optimizing for regeneration and resilience- rather than short term gains and fragile monocultures - simply makes most sense from financial, social, environmental, technical and geopolitcial perspectives
unlocking societal transformation
by Exploring in Extreme Environments - Pockets of the Future present today - we Test and Build Pioneering solutions for extra(ordinary) Everyday Life.
“The future exists first in imagination, then in will, then in reality.”
/Barbara Marx Hubbard
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OPENING CONCEPT COLLECTION:
PRINT, GROW & RADICALLY RECYCLED!
limited edition curated collection by Art, Design & Madness with pioneering industry leaders, emerging artists and trailblazing scientists
imagine printing everything you need from within your home. Your lamp providing food security, recharged through photosynthesis. Your cushions being grown of the most beautiful algae. By yourself or a friend. Your chairs, boxes and tables being symbiotic parts of a shapeshifting puzzle that enables your home to evolve as you do.
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Excited to Re-imagine, Re-design and Rebuild: ReGenerate together!
Over Half a Decade of work in Extreme Environments, engaging +30 nationalities across Continents to drive Societal Transofrmation; Combining Technologichal, Economical and Social innovation beyond the ability to sustain >>
the MAD
journeys that brought us here
MAD INITIATED PROJECTS:
- EARTH CITIZENS: Climate Refugge Camp Installations, Decentralized Democracy App, & Cli-Fi Film production. Exploring how financial and democratic incentives can be realigned with the underlying BioLogical Wellfare.
- PAID TO POOP: Exploring regenerative Water, Sanitation & Energy models. Seeking to shift the financial and operational burden, often placed on the most vulnerable sectors of society, preventing effective scaling - to an income generating source and engine for development.
- UTOPIA: Developing Video Game based interactive Human Rights tools, equipping agents of change in Ukraine. Showing how our individual everyday reactions and actions shape norms, narratives and overall societal development.
- ARCTIC FUTURES: Foresight Residency exploring pathways to democratize arctic futures
MAD DEVELOPED CONCEPTS
- SEEDS TO SPHERES: Framework for exploring how we can thrive within Planetary bounderies across Urban, Peri-urban and Rural contexts, co-created with 10 researchers, 3 regions, and a transsectorial pan European consortium.
- BRAVE Futures: Unpacking the need to be brave to shape more resilient futures through Blended Reality Approaches and Vehicles Equipping Futures; unlocking a value system from collecting Signals, co-creating Speculative Augmented and Virtual worlds to enabling Future tested design responses and be ready to order by neighbourhoods across Europe.
- DARK SIDE OF THE GREEN TRANSITION: Showing the dark side of the current narrative of the Green transition, risking indigenous culture and biodiversity extinction. Building Active and Informed Hope to drive next generation regenerative solutions.
MAD EXPEDITIONS:
- MALAYSIA: Business Model Innovation Sessions with the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Center
- UGANDA: Transsectorial Development inspired and informed by a Youth Innovation Village, Sanitation, Water and Energy entrepreneurs
- KENYA: Staying with Maasai warriors, studying their current societal developmental trade-offs and successes
- EQUADOR: Exploring pioneering models for creating safe spaces for refugee youth through edutainment, working with local leaders, the ministry of education and visiting pioneering inidgenous projects in the amazon
- ARCTIC: Meeting Indigenous representatives, industry actors, public and civic actors to explore alternative future scenarios
MAD STRATEGIC ADVISING
- ECIU IMPACT FRAMEWORKS: European Consortium of Innovative Universities: Exploring what an Impact Framework that does not only Capture, but Communicate and Create compounding Impact can look like.
- COMMUNITY BUILDING: Bringing together learners, teachers, and researchers work with cities, communities, and businesses to solve real-life challenges – and foster change across 14 universities
- IM DEVELOPMENT PARTNER: Exploring & Advising the Strategic Transformation across it's organisation, incl Nepal, India, El Salvador, Guatemala, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Moldova & Ukraine
MAD CO-FOUNDED PROJECTS
- FUTURES SWEDEN: Foresight Network across Sweden with 500 transsectorial members, united under the mission to Democratize Futures
- NORDIC FORESIGHT: Leading the initation of collaboration between Futures Sweden and Futures Finland to form a joint initiative with Iceland, Denmark and Norway
- SIHI SWEDEN: Founding the a Social Innovation Hub in Health in Sweden in parallell with supporting their Global Secreteriat. Supported by TDR and WHO
MAD SUPPORTED PROJECTS
- GATHER: Conflict Transformation program bringing actors from Palestine, Israel, India and Pakistan together.
- SHE ENTREPRENEURS: Femal Leadership program based in the MENA Region
- IMPACT REVIEW BOARD: Bosnia based Eastern Europ Review to invest in impact Entrepreneurs
- ENPACT: Designing and facilitating Trustbuilding Multistakeholder Labs in Iraq
CHALLENGE DRIVEN
Understanding shared root causes, not siloed symptoms. Seeing patterns, not just problems.
CROWD SOURCED
Transforming underlying forces of change.
Identifying tipping points and pooling resources.
FUTURES LED
Co-Design, Create & Use not just probable or possible - but truly prefferable Futures.
The MAD Method
EMPIRICALLY BUILT, TESTED & DEVELOPED THROUGH +5 YEARS OF EXPEDITIONS
DRAWING ON CUTTING EDGE TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
DEDICATED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
EXPLORING & EXPANDING FUTURES
DEPARTING FROM THE CONE OF PLAUSIBILITY TO STRETCH OUR IMAGINATION & CAPACITY TO USE & DEMOCRATIZE FUTURES
MAD unveiling Future Risks and Opportunities by expanding our horizon of futures from probable to possible - to detect the truly preferable and equip us to bring them into existance
