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 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.
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The project develops prototypes that visualize possible futures; provoke reactions, engage and inspire innovation and change.
THE SCENARIO
(short version)
THEME: Ecosystems guide decision-making
We manage to stay within planetary boundaries, with major changes in the forest value chain.
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VISION:
Sweden becomes the first biointelligent nation, where a deep understanding of the intelligent design of ecosystems shapes decision-making across the value chain. Biointelligence refers to the integration of biological knowledge as inspiration in societal development and economic systems. It’s about understanding how ecosystems function intelligently.
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IMPACT ON SOCIETY:
The turning point toward becoming a biointelligent nation came after Sweden experienced severe consequences of climate change, including several years of uncontrollable wildfires, heatwaves, and floods. These events disrupted routines within the forest value chain, exposed unaccounted-for economic risks, and had profound societal impacts.
A major shift in public norms followed the conclusion of two landmark legal cases: one brought by the Sámi people seeking to defend the rights of nature, and another by young people who sued the state for inadequate climate policy and disregard for biodiversity. These cases set legal precedents and forced a new perspective on the value of biointelligence.
Can people with deep understanding of natural systems help us prevent future crises? Biointelligence has become a sought-after skill, leading to the hiring of Indigenous knowledge holders, bio-data analysts, and ecologists in innovation departments, investment firms, universities, and political institutions.
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? ​
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Download the Exhibition Folder
for interest and requests to show the exhibition, contact emelie@mad.group
ABOUT MAD
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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 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- UGANDA: Transsectorial Development inspired and informed by a Youth Innovation Village, Sanitation, Water and Energy entrepreneurs
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- KENYA: Staying with Maasai warriors, studying their current societal developmental trade-offs and successes
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- NORDIC FORESIGHT: Leading the initation of collaboration between Futures Sweden and Futures Finland to form a joint initiative with Iceland, Denmark and Norway
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- SIHI SWEDEN: Founding the a Social Innovation Hub in Health in Sweden in parallell with supporting their Global Secreteriat. Supported by TDR and WHO
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MAD SUPPORTED PROJECTS
- GATHER: Conflict Transformation program bringing actors from Palestine, Israel, India and Pakistan together.
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- SHE ENTREPRENEURS: Femal Leadership program based in the MENA Region
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- IMPACT REVIEW BOARD: Bosnia based Eastern Europ Review to invest in impact Entrepreneurs
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- ENPACT: Designing and facilitating Trustbuilding Multistakeholder Labs in Iraq
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