Selected Projects
When organisations face complex transformations, understanding what change really means requires more than reports and presentations.
We create experiential prototypes that let people feel possible futures rather than just analyze them.
Through designed objects, interactive tools, and immersive experiences, we bridge the gap between knowing and doing.
Here are some examples:
Materialising Trust
How do you give form to something as intangible as trust?
Exploring Future Air Travel
What would it feel like to fly electric across Northern Scandinavia in 2040?
Water in Good Hands
How do you make water present in decisions that shape its future?
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The construction industry knows water management matters, but this knowledge does not translate into different decisions often enough. Professionals know what needs to change, yet existing practices persist. We needed to bridge the gap between knowing and doing. Not through more information, but by changing the quality of attention in moments where decisions are actually made.
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We created a pen that makes water tangibly present in daily professional practice. Each pen contains a glass chamber filled with water that creates caustic light patterns. Shimmering reflections that dance across the page only when the pen moves. The bodies are crafted from 750-year-old oak originally used in a medieval water well, connecting present decisions to deep time.
But the pen is only half the design. The other half is a ritual of exchange: Water Carriers receive their pen through a personal invitation: "Is water in good hands with you?". They can pass it on to someone they believe is ready for this responsibility. Each pen travels through professional networks, creating chains of commitment that grow organically through trusted relationships.
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Launched at Dutch Design Week 2025, the first Water Carriers stepped forward to receive their pens. The community has since grown to fourteen, with pens traveling through construction firms, water technology companies, municipalities, and consultancies across the Netherlands. Water Carriers share their experiences organically. By bringing pens to meetings, by sparking conversations with colleagues curious about the light patterns or by sharing on social media.
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For the Waterambassade and Dutch Design Foundation in Co/Lab "The Entire Ocean in a Drop".
Supported by Waterschap De Dommel, Gemeente Eindhoven, Provincie Noord-Brabant, and Rijkswaterstaat.
Penmaking: Eddy Nijssen. Glasswork: Hans de Marie. Graphic design: Studio Bahnhof.
Water in Good Hands
How do you make water present in decisions that shape its future? "In Good Hands" places water literally in the hands of construction professionals through pens containing water in glass chambers that create shimmering light patterns as they write. More than objects, these pens are tools for a growing community of "Water Carriers" committed to giving water an active role in urban development.
Meet the Water Carriers at waterambassade.nl/waterdragers
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Trust is often talked about but not always acted on. We say we trust, but what does that actually look like? Umeå, Sweden has some of the highest measured trust levels in the world. However, even there trust risks becoming an abstract value rather than a lived practice. We needed to make the act of trusting experienceable.
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We created a gift designed to multiply trust through meaningful exchange. The Bottle of Trust is a delicate glass vessel accompanied by a ritual: receivers write a secret desire on paper, fold it carefully, place it inside the bottle, and pass it on to someone they trust. Each exchange requires a small act of vulnerability and demonstrates that trust is built through action, not declaration.
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Created for the City of Umeå, the Bottle of Trust has since traveled to unexpected places. The city has gifted bottles to Sweden’s Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand (2023), Nobel Prize laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier (2025) and President of Komatsu Forest Hiroyuki Umeda (2025). Each bottle carries the same invitation: to make trust visible through the act of giving it away.
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Designed in collaboration with Ambra Trotto and Maria-Claudia Coppola for the City of Umeå.
Glass bottles by Vetraie Rubella Murano Glass Arts (Venice) and Eva Juneblad (Umeå).
Materialising Trust
How do you give form to something as intangible as trust? The Bottle of Trust makes the act of trusting tangible. A delicate glass vessel that invites you to share a secret and pass it on to someone you trust. Born from Umeå's uniquely high trust levels, the project reveals that trust isn't passive or abstract: it's something you do, and it grows when you give it away.
Exploring Future Air Travel
What would it feel like to fly electric across Northern Scandinavia in 2040? We created two experiential prototypes that let stakeholders sense this possible future rather than just analyze it: an interactive booking interface that surfaced hidden system complexities, and an immersive soundscape that brought the journey to life.
Experience the prototype at fair-volta.ri.se or listen to the soundscape here:
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Northern Scandinavia is exploring electric aviation as a sustainable transport solution. But policy discussions often stay abstract, focused on technical specifications, regulations, and business models. Stakeholders needed to feel what this transformation would actually mean: for passengers, for communities, for the rhythm of regional life.
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We created two complementary prototypes that engage different ways of knowing.
Volta is an interactive booking interface for an imaginary electric airline. Instead of optimizing for fixed schedules, the airline rewards flexibility and minimizes flight movements, even when fossil-free. By trying to book flights under these different values, users discover for themselves how deeply our current expectations are shaped by existing systems.
Soundscape is an immersive audio journey from Lycksele to Vaasa in 2040. Electric flight is quieter, so we asked: what if we designed the experience? The soundscape includes a sonification of the landscape below, letting passengers hear the journey rather than just endure it.
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The prototypes sparked concrete discussions about necessary changes in business models, regulations, and infrastructure. Volta revealed how existing systems have evolved interdependencies that make transformation challenging. The Soundscape helped stakeholders envision new possibilities for the travel experience itself, moving the conversation from technical feasibility to human desirability.
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Developed at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in collaboration with Kvarken Council EGCT, Thyrens, BioFuel Region, and Region Västerbotten.
Sound Design: Andreas Estensen.
Part of the EU Interreg Botnia-Atlantica program.
