Selected Projects

When organizations face complex transformations, understanding what change really means requires more than reports and presentations. We create experiential prototypes that engage all human abilities - helping people sense and make sense of possible futures. Through interactive tools, immersive experiences, and carefully designed workshops, we make abstract transformation tangible and actionable.

Here are some examples of how we help organizations show, rather than tell, their way forward:

FAIR: Exploring Future Air Travel

Electric aviation could transform regional travel in Northern Scandinavia. We created two complementary prototypes that helped stakeholders experience different aspects of this possible future, revealing both challenges and opportunities.

Workshop: Value-Driven Infrastructure Design

When faced with future maintenance challenges for critical infrastructure, how do we move beyond technical constraints to consider what really matters? We created an interactive workshop environment that helped stakeholders explore radical alternatives by focusing on core values. Rather than getting stuck in limitations, our designed setting and process helped participants move constructively beyond their comfort zones

Mobility Label: Making Mobility Behavior Actionable

When searching for a new home, energy labels help us understand a building's sustainability performance. But mobility is fundamentally different - it's personal, situated, and relative to each person's unique patterns and preferences. This project developed a prototype that combines individual mobility needs with location-specific possibilities, helping people understand how different places could enable their desired way of living and moving.

Bottle of Trust: Materializing Trust

How do you give form to something as intangible as trust? The Bottle of Trust is a gift designed to multiply trust through meaningful exchange. Prompting a reflection on what trust really is for you. Through delicate glasswork and an interactive ritual, receivers are invited to give trust as they pass the bottle on, creating a chain of trust.

  • Trust is a peculiar thing - the more you give it away, the more you receive. Research has shown that Umeå, Sweden has some of the highest trust levels in the world. How could we turn this intangible quality into something that could be shared and multiplied?

  • We created a gift that is both symbolic and experiential - emboding the peculiar nature of trust. The Bottle of Trust combines delicate glasswork with an interactive ritual - inviting receivers to share a secret desire through carefully folded origami paper, then pass the bottle on to someone they trust. Each exchange multiplies trust through a chain of meaningful interactions.

  • The first Bottle of Trust was presented to Parisa Liljestrand, Swedish Minister of Culture, on behalf of Umeå's cultural ecosystem. The project expanded beyond its original context, leading to an interactive installation at Venice Glass Week 2023 at Franco Schiavon Gallery, where the concept was reimagined as a collective experience.

  • Designed in collaboration with Ambra Trotto and Maria-Claudia Coppola for the City of Umeå.

    Venice Glass Week installation by Ambra Trotto and Vetraie Rubella Murano Glass Arts.

    Glass bottles by Vetraie Rubella Murano Glass Arts (Venice) and Eva Juneblad (Umeå)

Materialising Trust

The Bottle of Trust turns an intangible quality into a meaningful exchange between people. Born from Umeå's uniquely high trust levels, this delicate glass vessel carries secrets and creates connections, celebrating how trust grows when we share it. From its origins as a cultural gift to its re-imagining as an interactive installation at Venice Glass Week, the project explores how we can make abstract social bonds tangible.

Exploring Future Air Travel

Electric aviation could transform regional travel in Northern Scandinavia. We created two complementary prototypes that helped stakeholders experience different aspects of this possible future, revealing both challenges and opportunities.

Experience the prototype at fair-volta.ri.se or listen to the soundscape here:

  • Northern Scandinavia is exploring electric aviation as a sustainable transport solution. But stakeholders needed to understand what this transformation would really mean beyond technical implementation - from changing business models, policies and regulations to providing engaging new passenger experiences.

  • We created two complementary prototypes to explore different dimensions of this future:

    • Volta: An interactive booking interface that revealed systemic implications by letting people try to book flights with an imaginary electric airline operating without fixed schedules

    • Soundscape: An immersive audio journey from Lycksele to Vaasa in 2040 that helped people emotionally connect with how electric aviation could transform the travel experience

  • 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, while Soundscape helped stakeholders envision new possibilities for enhancing the travel experience.

  • Developed at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in collaboration with:

    • Kvarken Council EGCT

    • Thyrens

    • BioFuel Region

    • Region Västerbotten

    Sound Design: Andreas Estensen

    Part of the EU Interreg Botnia-Atlantica program

  • Moving to a new home fundamentally shapes mobility behavior, but people struggle to understand what different locations mean for their personal mobility. Unlike energy performance which can be measured absolutely, mobility potential is deeply individual - depending on where you need to go, how you prefer to travel, and what options matter most to you.

  • We developed an interactive tool that bridges personal mobility preferences with location-specific possibilities:

    • First gathering individual perspectives: desired travel patterns, important destinations, and mobility preferences

    • Then mapping these against the actual mobility options different locations provide

    • Creating clear visualizations that help people evaluate locations based on their specific situation

    • Testing and refining with recently moved residents, real estate agents, and developers

  • The prototype sparked new conversations about how to make mobility more explicit in housing choices. It demonstrated how digital tools can help people understand complex systems tangibly, leading to more informed decisions. The tool is now being launched for wider testing and used to spark societal debate about the possibilities of a mobility label for residences.

  • A collaboration between:

    • LEF Mobiliteit

    • BPD Development

    • Municipality of Katwijk

    • Municipality of Alphen a/d Rijn

    • Van Der Ziel Real Estate

    • Hely

     Technical development:

    • Context Undefined

    • Studio Bahnhof

    • TravelTime

    Supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie

Making Mobility Behavior Actionable 

When searching for a new home, energy labels help us understand a building's sustainability performance. But mobility is fundamentally different - it's personal, situated, and relative to each person's unique patterns and preferences. This project developed a prototype that combines individual mobility needs with location-specific possibilities, helping people understand how different places could enable their desired way of living and moving.

Experience the prototype at www.mobiliteitslabel.nl

  • The Dutch agency for infrastructure and water management (Rijkswaterstaat) actively explores future challenges. Standard approaches to discussing these challenges often get stuck in technical and financial constraints. We needed to find a way to help stakeholders explore more radical alternatives while staying constructive.

  • We designed an interactive workshop environment featuring:

    • A custom tabletop interface where drawn ideas come alive through projected animations

    • Value-based perspectives (e.g., nature inclusivity, public health) to reframe challenges

    • A structured process for building on each other's ideas

    • Carefully designed materials to keep discussions grounded yet exploratory

  • The workshop demonstrated how careful design of both physical tools and process can help organizations tackle difficult conversations about the future. The interactive tabletop and value-based approach helped transform what could have been a technical discussion about maintenance into a constructive exploration of new possibilities. This approach is now being considered for other challenging infrastructure dialogues.

  • Developed for Rijkswaterstaat in collaboration with:

    • DesignDrone Consultancy

    • Eindhoven University of Technology

    • Context Undefined

    • Tessa van Maanen

Value-Driven Infrastructure Design

When faced with future maintenance challenges for critical infrastructure, how do we move beyond technical constraints to consider what really matters? We designed and facilitated an interactive workshop where stakeholders could collaboratively explore radical alternatives through the lens of different values. Using a custom-designed interactive tabletop and carefully structured process, we helped participants move constructively beyond their comfort zones