planetary
dreaming
Designing the future by engaging design, art, and storytelling to create new pathways towards sustainable societal transformations
planetary
dreaming
Designing the future by engaging design, art, and storytelling to create new pathways towards sustainable societal transformations
We will face an unprecedented number of challenges and crises. These are complex, mutually reinforcing, and accelerating.
However, crises can also be transformed into opportunities.
This is the mission of Planetary Dreaming
We will face an unprecedented number of challenges and crises. These are complex, mutually reinforcing, and accelerating.
However, crises can also be transformed into opportunities.
This is the mission of Planetary Dreaming
We encourage designers, architects, and artists to join the work of sharing visions for new sustainable futures, alongside individuals, companies, and organizations dedicated to contributing and advancing of deeper societal transformation
Planetary dreaming is putting planet before humans, by…
Absolute Sustainability
Embracing awareness of finite resources. Recognizing that the planet is a closed system with limits to growth.
Intergenerational Rights
Decisions with a focus on long-lasting sustainability, the Seven Generation Principle
Interconnection
Enhancing understanding of global interconnectedness and responsibility. Zooming out to a broader perspective focusing on the well-being of the planet.
Beyond Competition
Embracing an approach that transcends conventional competition, focusing instead on collaboration, innovation, and creating new paradigms. Redefining success beyond zero-sum games.
We Are Nature = Integration
Advocating for decisions that recognize our inherent connection to nature, promoting respect and balance in human-nature relationships.
Human BEINGS
Cultivating an understanding that our presence in the world is not merely a means to an end, but a meaningful end in itself. The core of human existence.
Resources for designing the future
Sharing visions is not enough – we need to share knowledge, methods and inspiration in order to design new futures and societies.
Below you will find ressources free for you to use. We encourage you to share your own views, methods and cases with the community.
Projects that explore how to build new worlds—both fictional that contribute to creating experiences of emotional engagement and identification with possible futures, fostering empathy with different futures and thus enabling the translation of visions into present decisions.
Projects that explore how to build new worlds—both fictional that contribute to creating experiences of emotional engagement and identification with possible futures, fostering empathy with different futures and thus enabling the translation of visions into present decisions.
Resources and articles presenting viewpoints and thought models that can inspire conversations and specific methods to to facilitate processes of change.
Resources and articles presenting viewpoints and thought models that can inspire conversations and specific methods to to facilitate processes of change.
Hands on cases of companies and organizations working with a planetary mindset and adopting an intergenerational perspective in their decision-making.
Hands on cases of companies and organizations working with a planetary mindset and adopting an intergenerational perspective in their decision-making.
The IPPC reports from UN paints a clear picture of what is needed of us to do, but how many read the reports? This project is engaging design students to work with creative ways to communicate and convey the serious message and create hope by laying out ways to do something about it.
By Jakob Ion Wille----Published On: May 14th, 2024----Categories: Projects, Universe creation, Ways of worldmaking----Tags: Collaboration, Education, Experimentation, Future Design, Human culture, Planetary Boundaries, Social Movements, Story telling, System thinking----Engaging and inspiring everybody to think and act for the future. What we do and don’t in life, echoes in eternity so the future is our client.
By Christian Faber----Published On: April 26th, 2024----Categories: Point of View, Stories from the future, Universe creation----Tags: Art, Experimentation, Human culture, Story telling, Sustainability, technology, Transforming Humanity----A collaboration between art, architecture and local community gave birth to a breathtaking space to discuss and explore deeper sustainability
By Morten Meldgaard----Published On: April 22nd, 2024----Categories: Art-based projects, Point of View----Tags: Art, Earth Wisdom, Engagement, Experimentation, Human culture, Social Movements, Sustainability, Transforming Humanity----Three playful provocative, interactive commentaries on systemic issues of consumption, capitalism and sustainability
By Jakob Ion Wille----Published On: April 26th, 2024----Categories: Art-based projects, Point of View, Stories from the future----Tags: Art, Collaboration, Engagement, Experimentation, Future Design, Innovation, Prototyping, Social Movements, Story telling, Sustainability, System thinking----Design solutions to our personal- and societal challenges with this methodology based on the medicin wheel of indigenous tradition and design thinking
By Ida Engholm----Published On: May 14th, 2024----Categories: How-to, Projects, Thought models and methods----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Human culture, Innovation, mindwork, Organizational change, Sustainability, System thinking, Theory of change, Transforming Humanity----Ida Engholm and Jakob Ion Wille held the introduction keynote in Copenhagen in 2024. Explore the slideshow and presentation notes here
By Ida Engholm----Published On: April 17th, 2024----Categories: Concepts and theory, How-to, Point of View----Tags: Collaboration, Engagement, Future Design, Human culture, Innovation, Planetary Boundaries, Social Movements, Sustainability, System thinking, Transforming Humanity----On the spring equinox of 2024 the first circle of Planetary Dreamers met to explore what characterizes the human race in a sustainable world
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: April 10th, 2024----Categories: How-to, Point of View, Stories from the future----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Engagement, Human culture, Planetary Boundaries, Social Movements, Sustainability, Transforming Humanity----Use this step-by-step playbook to facilitate the initiation of a new circle of planetary dreamers, through a playful workshop
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: April 22nd, 2024----Categories: How-to, Method, Thought models and methods, Tools----Tags: Collaboration, Future Design, Human culture, Innovation, mindwork, Prototyping, Social Movements, Transforming Humanity----This tool helps you create inspiring universes! World- and universebuilding is the foundation of telling stories of the future and building scenarios.
By Jakob Ion Wille----Published On: April 10th, 2024----Categories: How-to, Tools----Tags: Collaboration, Future Design, Prototyping, Transforming Humanity----Video demonstrating the innovative teaching format, based on earth wisdom traditions that can enhance our ability to work together, create together and make change together.
By Morten Meldgaard----Published On: April 5th, 2024----Categories: How-to, Method, Thought models and methods----Tags: Collaboration, Earth Wisdom, Education, Engagement, Innovation, Theory of change, Transforming Humanity----Perceive the world from a fresh perspective, by seeking an approach to architecture and design disciplines that revolves around planetary well-being and the state of the global environment.
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: May 14th, 2024----Categories: Art-based projects, Events, Ways of worldmaking----Tags: Art, Education, Experimentation, Future Design, Innovation, Planetary Boundaries, Prototyping, Sustainability, technology----Strategically plan for the future with a three-horizon model. Balance short, medium, and long-term goals to ensure relevance and sustainability.
By Brian Frandsen----Published On: April 12th, 2024----Categories: How-to, Tools----Tags: Future Design, Innovation, Organizational change, System thinking, Theory of change----
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I find my self amongst people trying to grasp the most beautiful way to be a bigger we.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I find my self amongst people trying to grasp the most beautiful way to be a bigger we.
I feel like a planetary dreamer, when I allow the vision of a common peaceful humanity guide the dream.
I feel like a planetary dreamer, when I allow the vision of a common peaceful humanity guide the dream.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I am connected to the beings around me - human or not.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I am connected to the beings around me - human or not.
I feel most like a planetary dreamer when I draw on my wealth of life experiences to guide others through transformative journeys of self-discovery and healing, inspiring them to get closer to innovation and action.
I feel most like a planetary dreamer when I draw on my wealth of life experiences to guide others through transformative journeys of self-discovery and healing, inspiring them to get closer to innovation and action.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I facilitate group fields of consciousness that makes us feel connected and touching the not-yet-known.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I facilitate group fields of consciousness that makes us feel connected and touching the not-yet-known.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I act on gratitude
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I act on gratitude
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I take part in creating platforms and communities where people unite to dream, play, learn, connect, experiment and imagine together!
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I take part in creating platforms and communities where people unite to dream, play, learn, connect, experiment and imagine together!
I feel like a planetary dreamer when trying to grasp the vastness of space, the breath in my lungs, and the possible mind of a stone.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when trying to grasp the vastness of space, the breath in my lungs, and the possible mind of a stone.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I can detach from the outcome.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I can detach from the outcome.
I feel like a planetary dreamer, when we create presence through a calm breath – preferably in a circle.
I feel like a planetary dreamer, when we create presence through a calm breath – preferably in a circle.
For me, planetary dreaming is not about the big scope but rather about re-experiencing the world around us—connecting to the poetry of our everyday lives, which we have forgotten because of habitualization.
For me, planetary dreaming is not about the big scope but rather about re-experiencing the world around us—connecting to the poetry of our everyday lives, which we have forgotten because of habitualization.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I close my eyes and contemplate the mimetic properties of cuttlefish and octopuses.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I close my eyes and contemplate the mimetic properties of cuttlefish and octopuses.
To me, planetary dreaming is about becoming and daring what's Planetar(il)y Punk—embodying concepts and desires that celebrate the inherent weirdness of our reality and embrace our ability to imagine and relate.
To me, planetary dreaming is about becoming and daring what's Planetar(il)y Punk—embodying concepts and desires that celebrate the inherent weirdness of our reality and embrace our ability to imagine and relate.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I experience unselfing and make decisions as part of a bigger lifecycle.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I experience unselfing and make decisions as part of a bigger lifecycle.
Jeg føler mig som en planetær drømmer, når jeg forbinder mennesker i samtaler om temaer, der kan flytte en dagsorden / I feel like a planetary dreamer when I connect people in conversations about topics that can shift an agenda
Jeg føler mig som en planetær drømmer, når jeg forbinder mennesker i samtaler om temaer, der kan flytte en dagsorden / I feel like a planetary dreamer when I connect people in conversations about topics that can shift an agenda
I am a planetary dreamer when I’m stopping up and letting others in, when I’m questioning norms and a part of communities where we together are dedicated to giving more than we take.
I am a planetary dreamer when I’m stopping up and letting others in, when I’m questioning norms and a part of communities where we together are dedicated to giving more than we take.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I sit with people under the stars knowing that we are all made of star dust.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I sit with people under the stars knowing that we are all made of star dust.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I close my eyes and lean into the moment's deepest hopes and dreams for our shared thriving future.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I close my eyes and lean into the moment's deepest hopes and dreams for our shared thriving future.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I smell the soil in April, taste strawberries in July, listen to the wind in September and enjoy the beauty of a snowflake in February.
I feel like a planetary dreamer when I smell the soil in April, taste strawberries in July, listen to the wind in September and enjoy the beauty of a snowflake in February.
The world is not made of atoms, is made of stories, as somebody said. Of course dreams, imaginations and stories are not enough if we want to change the world for the better, but it is where it all begins. If you cannot dream, imagine or tell stories about the future, you cannot change it.
The world is not made of atoms, is made of stories, as somebody said. Of course dreams, imaginations and stories are not enough if we want to change the world for the better, but it is where it all begins. If you cannot dream, imagine or tell stories about the future, you cannot change it.
As a typical human being of the 'pink pineapple' tribe, I want to communicate with that shines, glitters and sparkles in the universe for a fun and better planet.
As a typical human being of the 'pink pineapple' tribe, I want to communicate with that shines, glitters and sparkles in the universe for a fun and better planet.
I feel like a planetary dreamer the most when I visit my favourite old oak in the forest where I often take walks, and I get a feeling of being just a tiny part of a bigger whole that stretching both time and space
I feel like a planetary dreamer the most when I visit my favourite old oak in the forest where I often take walks, and I get a feeling of being just a tiny part of a bigger whole that stretching both time and space