Experiments & Inquiries
Studio Imaginal reflects our diverse interests and ongoing engagement with different forms of sense making, contexts and practices. It has been driven by a lifelong inquiry around how to create conditions where wellbeing and vitality are the consequences; recognising that relational, trans-contextual, trans-national and intercultural perspectives will enable us to ask better questions and care for the vitality of the planet, each other, and ourselves.
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It reflects an intention to expand the spectrum of possibilities for ourselves and others. To continue to look at things from different angles, a broader perspective, and the larger patterns. It also reflects an intention to understand how our many contexts of life overlap and lead to a better understanding of interdependency, and a new expanded way to live our ecologies, and shape a regenerative future.
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Re-imagining Sustainability Consulting
As part of a Master’s in Design Innovation, Loughborough University with the research aim of exploring the question of how might design futures expand the conceptual tools of sustainability consultants to support the transition to a more sustainable and equitable future; nuanced by the sub-question of how a decolonised or indigenised lens on design futures could better support the transition to a more sustainable and equitable future?
In Summer 2023, we led a series of workshops with sustainability consultants working in a leading global consultancy.
For the consulting industry to support businesses to change there is a need to fundamentally re-imagine their purpose. This includes a radical ‘reframing of the problem and context in large, multi-level, spatio-temporal contexts’ (Irwin, 2019, p.163), as well as redefining of the role of sustainability consultants in which they become facilitators, connectors, and ‘weavers’ (Wahl, 2018) to leverage the knowledge already within the system.
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New Stories, New Possibilities
A contribution to the book ‘The Call of Self: Psychosynthesis Life Coaching edited by Dorothy Firman, Ed.D., which takes readers on a journey to the depths and heights of a transpersonal oriented life coaching methodology.
The chapter focused on aesthetic engagement and connectivity, how to embody new stories, and exploring the question of what story we want for ourselves and our collective futures?
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Beyond Customer-Centricity: Designing Services as Living, Breathing Ecosystems
Our newest workshop series, Beyond Customer-Centricity: Designing Services as Living, Breathing Ecosystems, is an invitation to step beyond transactional service models and into the art of relational design. Rooted in the meta-relational paradigm, this offering explores services as evolving fields of care, reciprocity, and planetary stewardship.
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Instead of optimising for efficiency, we ask: How might services become adaptive, attuned, and regenerative—woven into the rhythms of the world rather than imposed upon it? This is not a best-practice toolkit but a practice in unlearning, sensing, and co-stewarding the unknown. If you’re ready to compost outdated logics and design with the whole-shebang of life in mind, let’s explore together.