We are change-makers for a better future.
We are a collective of transitions designers, systems thinkers, sustainability experts and researchers using system-aware creative practice to catalyse regenerative futures.
Falay (/falaj/)
“Users of each falay were a community, the falay bound the community - they were the same.”
Falay means running water, accumulated underground through rainfall over millennia. Considered by locals of Ru-us al-Jibal as sacred, a driving force in the creation of landscapes and social practices.
A collective of changemakers.
As a distributed, multidisciplinary collective of design and sustainability experts, we're standing for better, more collaborative and relational working practices.
Building the futures the world needs.
We guide organisations towards transformational change, by harnessing the power of creative practice, futures and systems thinking and sustainability knowledge.
Challenging business-as-usual.
To create desirable futures for people and the planet, we must urgently transform business-as-usual mindsets to regenerative working models.
upcoming Event – 4.-5.5.2024
Rest & Resilience Retreat
Are you a passionate sustainability advocate feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders? Do you long for a space to recharge, reconnect, and refocus for positive change?
Escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and embark on the Rest & Resilience Retreat, hosted by experienced facilitators Zeynep Falay von Flittner and Anni Rissanen. The retreat is a 2-day experience where we provide a blend of deep introspection and joyful connection, designed specifically for your needs as a sustainability actor.
New shoots
Imagining future sustainable good life
We are partnering with the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra in a new unique project exploring imaginaries for sustainable life in the future.
In the project, we will find and create positive images of what a sustainable and good life might look like in the future. We will develop tools together with the people of Finland to imagine a life that supports the mutual well-being of humans and the rest of nature.
tools & learning
Transition Design toolbox
Plant the seed of sustainability in your organization with our open-source transition design tools.
From Future and Impact Canvases to Playful tools and strategic methodologies, our free tools are built to apply diverse theories of change into practice and will help you to collaborate, imagine and facilitate your organization’s sustainability journey.
Our clients
Our project library
Our service offering
Organisational transformation
Transition Design Sprints
Transitions workshops and training
Tools and toolboxes
Horizon scanning, ecosystem mapping and reporting
These services support organisations through a Transition Design process, by combining futures and systems thinking with creative approaches and sustainability knowledge.
Why?
Build agency and organisational resilience
Gain systemic understanding
Unlock barriers to change
Enable co-creation with stakeholders
Identify pathways towards sustainable models and practices
Inner
transformation
Retreats
Nature immersion workshops
Embodied resilience building workshops
These services support inner transformation for individuals and groups, by complementing traditional rational, efficiency and productivity led mindsets (“left-brain”) with creative, intuitive and embodied (“right-brain”) approaches.
Why?
Unlock creativity and innovation
Build personal resilience as change-makers
Build connectedness across generations, species, each other and self
Eco-social
transformation
Socio-technical intervention exploration and design
Collective imagination and futures literacy training
Visioning workshops and visualisation
These services focus on explorative, experimental and research-led approaches to foster high-level environmental and socio-technical change within your community, organisation or industry.
Why?
Create shared direction and motivation
Unlock creativity and innovation
Identify tangible interventions to be implemented today
Explore potential for impact beyond just organisational
Find out more
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In conversation with: Helsinki Climate Unit’s Susa Eräranta
In the first of a three-part series about making the future visible, we share an inspiring conversation we had with Susa Eräranta about the fascinating work she's been doing at the Helsingin kaupunki – Helsingfors stad – City of Helsinki Climate Unit around imagining a post-carbon future for Helsinki 🔮
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Sitra Heräämö: Design as a tool for social change
Tune up to Zeynep Falay von Flittner’s presentation about collaboration, a plurality of voices, and a systemic approach - and how design/designers can play a part in bringing these all together in Sitra’s Heräämö event.
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Foraging as collective learning
Through foraging, we can foster an environment of curiosity and reciprocity, helping us to find new ways of working and learning together.
Read about our collective foraging experience, led by Andrea and Sara, and how we are exploring this regenerative practice as part of our offering to businesses.
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"A heart-body-mind experience for transformational futures"
In mid-April we shared a transformative three days with an inspirational group of people at our first Embodied Transition Design retreat in Southern Finland. Read a blog post about the retreat written by Savannah Vize.