Non profit and NGOs
Exploring new ways to exist and add value during a total restructuring of the humanitarian sector, the extreme funding instability and the rising of anti-rights movements.
Companies
Businesses committed to being regenerative and connecting with local communities.
Education
Universities and schools on the journey of making their curriculum, projects and relations more equitable, decolonial and reparative.
Professionals
Designers, researchers, innovators and anyone interested in unlearn harmful practices and learn reciprocity, radical imagination, and right collaboration with indigenous and traditional communities
We research, coordinate and facilitate re-imaginations and transformation of your organization to face the challenges of today, inspired by ancestral practices
The global challenges of today do not need incremental change, but complete re-imagination.
Is it the sector that needs reframing? The business model? The theory of change?
We believe that re‑imagination and transformation come from plural knowledge systems learning from one another. A resilient and equitable response for these uncertain times.
“The modern and the Indigenous need to work together.” Princess Abumbi Prudence (Bafut People, Cameroon)
We sometimes describe re‑imagination as remembering how to be good ancestors, because no one creates lasting change alone, and reciprocity sustains real relationships. We choose to support Indigenous Peoples because they have offered regenerative practices rooted in balance and relationality for millennia.
With their guidance, we help you reframe challenges and design new narratives, models, and strategies.
There is a realm of possibilities
Instead of being paralyzed by complex challenges we want to expand the realm of possibilities of more collaboration, learning and unlearning and ethical innovation, by offering:
What
Workshops or small experiences that make the participants question the established ideas of business, development, progress and get another perspective from relational, regenerative principles.
Why
The current crisis is a direct result of the repetitive, extractive systems we have been taught.
Example
A workshop with 3 different indigenous leaders telling about practices of justice and law within their community and a collective discussion to compare them with the western, global model.
What
We translate the imagined futures into powerful new narratives to facilitate change. The ideas become concrete design outputs that expand the new narratives.
Why
Humans are moved by stories they identify with. To co-create a new futures, we must share our aspirations.
A booklet with a new narrative for your sector, supported by artistic and informative images.
What
The narratives become full experiences, exhibitions, websites, books in a way that make the reciprocal future tangible and immersive.Outcomes
Why
We must feel and envision possibilities of change to be believed and realized.
Redesign culture, operations and governance in reciprocity with people and planet.
Even when moved by good intentions, many organisations' cultures, operational structures and governances are still echoing paradigms of over-extraction of people and resources.
Guided by indigenous knowledge systems we examine together the organisational structures and co-design interventions and changes to align intention with impact.
A genuinely accountable governance bodies
While building Design Reparations, we regularly sought the advice of our Indigenous and traditional partners. This process inspired us to imagine how other organizations could benefit from similar structures, moving beyond performative advisory boards toward genuinely accountable governance bodies that include Indigenous and traditional voices from the start.
What
Cultural and learning programs for organizations, in collaboration with indigenous leaders.
Why
Learning the interconnections with communities and eco-systems and unlearning exploitative ways of working.
Example
A learning journey of 3 months for your department to explore how to decolonize their practices, hosting several indigenous voices.
A cultural program introducing content, examples and different perspective into the social weave of the organization
What
Transformation programs in collaboration with indigenous wisdom and leaders.
Why
Designing regenerative transformations in the organization and facilitating relational change with humans and more-than-human.
Example
A sustainability department co-designing reporting models that include bio-diversity, in collaboration with indigenous researchers.
An organization that wants to formally include the voice of nature into their operations.
What
Accountability and governance bodies, in collaboration with indigenous leaders.Why
Governing with structures and processes that create accountability towards communities and ecosystems.Example
An advisory board of indigenous leaders who is meeting twice a year to give feedback.
An supervisory board composed by indigenous leaders who is meeting once a quarter, with veto and decision powers.