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BE A PART OF THE STUDIO
Join our Socitey of world leading industry actors, emerging artists, and trailblazing researchers to Re-imagine, Re-design and Rebuild: ReGenerate society, one space at a time.
Craving to see how much we can nudge transformation forward by bringing pioneering solutions together under the same roof? We do!
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EXPLORE YOUR ROLE
THE MAD STUDIO OPENING IN BARCELONA!
INNOVATORS
Climate Tech startups, Emerging Artists, Social Entrepreneurs, Ground breaking researchers, Industry leaders. Createing solutions that changes the game
>> Intrigued to prototype and show your solutions surrounded by other pioneers?
CIVIC & PUBLIC ACTORS
Neighbourhoods to metropols Craving to create resilient living environments
>> Intrigued to step into immersive scenarios of regenerative futures with solutions ready to test out today?
ARCHITECTS & PROPERTY DEVELOPERS
Underdogs to established players Looking for the next generation solutions
>> Intrigued to design and equip your buildings to be lighthouse cases beyond the ability to sustain?
Do you and your team sit on solutions that can change the rules of the game? make homes make a difference? then don't be a stranger - reach out!
You might be a biomimicry neard that builds with extraordinary efficiency of materials. A group of hydroponic garden scientist looking to ensure food security through the window of opportunity of a balcony. A policy innovator looking to test out what regenerative regulations would actually look like for your region? Architects or property developers seeking to understand alternative futures to build multigenerational and multipurpose buildings? A climate tech startup that shapes spaces that turns living rooms into neighbourhood co-working spaces. City representatives looking to test and prototype the future of decentralized responses for increased resilience? A biological artists or mycelium reseracher craving to develop nature based solutions? A 3D printing pioneer looking to creatively disrupt what, how and who produces our buildings and homes? You might simply have the next generation solutions for load barring, floors, roofs, the ceilings that sourrounds us and the objects and creations we fill it with?
These are some of the things we are looking for. You tell us what we've missed! We see you as the Pioneers whith whom we create Emerging Fundamental; the building blocks with the power to fundamentally unlock shifts from within the walls of our homes.
MAD
Challenges
Impact & Innovation challenges based on Big Problems, using Bold Futures, raised together with strategic partners ; Bringing researchers and students together with industry, civic and public sector to reimagine thriving within planetary bounderies: tackling systemic challenges through the lense of Everyday life
Design RESPONSES & Future PROTOTYPES
Transdisiplinary teams design suggested responses & develop prototypes.
Transsectorial board supports & reviews
LIMITED Edition & CURATED Collections
Early access crowd-funding campaigns test market interest and fit. The validated designs are added into MADs Catalogue of Futures Responses and produced as Limited Editions and Curated Collections
the bigger picture >>
crafting MAD Spaces in Pockets of the Future:
exploring, testing and building tangible, safe and just ways of thriving within planetary bounderies
building a collective compass for strategic navigation and creation of preferable futures
From Rural to Urban, Rainforest to Mountain range, Drought to Flooding, Public spaces to Personal Homes, Building New to Retrofitting. The opposites, similarities, opportunities, risks, and insights that these strategically chosen and complementary social, environmental, economical, and technical contexts enables - is the exploring in extreme environments, building pioneering solutions for future and present everyday life.
Together with our partners, we identify, delve deep in and create Pockets of the Future - tangible visions and lighthouse cases - to stretch our imagination and capacity to push the horizons and create conditions for thriving within planetary bounderies. Do you sit on a Pocket of the Future and are intrigued to explore how it could be a part of our growing collective compass of destinations and lighthouse cases? >> Don't be a stranger - reach out!
MAD spaces
The future is not a linear or even exponential trajectory of today - instead it is this wild and wondrous place we can use - tangibly work with and leverage - to explore which futures we want and don’t want to bring about by actually stepping into them. Only then can we discover the rich landscape of overlooked opportunities, risks and solutions that we want to intentionally and strategically seize, mitigate or craft.
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
MAD Expeditions
by Exploring and learning from within Pockets of the Future - Extreme Environments present today - we are better equipped to develop pioneering solutions for safe and just transitions towards democratized futures
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
MAD ways
To delve deep in root causes, push the horizon of bold futures, and bring the most diverse of perspectives together
