Falay Transition Design

Onnittelut Zeynep Falay von Flittnerille, joka palkittiin vuoden suunnannäyttäjänä työstään yritysten ja organisaatioiden kestävyysmurroksen muotoilijana! 🌍✨ Mitä #murrosmuotoilu on ja miten luovan työn avulla voidaan ratkaista monimutkaisia, systeemisiä ongelmia ja rakentaa polkuja kohti toiveikasta tulevaisuutta? Lue lisää Zeynepin ja kollektiivimme inspiroivasta työstä täällä: https://lnkd.in/dXVKTV7F Ornamo Art and Design Finland #ornamoawards #kestävyys #muotoilu #systeeminenmuutos #tulevaisuus #ilmastonmuutos

We are proud to share the news that our Zeynep Falay von Flittner has been named the recipient of the prestigious Ornamo Award 2024 for the Forerunner Prize for being at the forefront of systemic change. Zeynep, the founder of Falay Transition Design, is recognized for her holistic approach to advancing sustainable development goals. According to the jury, Falay von Flittner is an inspiring role model and an empowering force within the design community. She has established herself as a leader in transformational design, achieving significant results in both environmental protection and social well-being as a consultant, educator, and researcher. Under Zeynep’s leadership, the Falay Transition Design collective has been recognized pioneering in integrating design methods into broader societal transformation efforts. Warm congratulations Zeynep 🌟 🇫🇮 Falay Transition Designing perustaja, Zeynep Falay von Flittner, on valittu Ornamo Award ’24 Muotoilun Suunnannäyttäjä -palkinnon saajaksi. Zeynep palkitaan ansioistaan kestävän kehityksen tavoitteiden edistämiseksi kokonaisvaltaisella työotteella. Juryn mukaan Falay von Flittner toimii inspiroivana esimerkkinä ja koko muotoiluyhteisöä yhdistävänä voimauttajana. Falay von Flittner on vakiinnuttanut asemansa murrossuunnittelun edelläkävijänä ja työssään konsulttina, kouluttajana ja tutkijana hän on saavuttanut merkittäviä tuloksia sekä ympäristön suojelun että sosiaalisen hyvinvoinnin edistämisen saralla. Zeynepin johdolla Falay Transition Design -kollektiivin on tunnistettu tekevän uraauurtavaa työtä, tuoden muotoilun keinot osaksi laajempaa yhteiskunnallista muutosta. Lämpimät onnittelut, Zeynep 🌟 Congrats to all of the other 2024 Ornamo Award winners: Measurement technology company Vaisala, and recent Aalto University Master’s graduate in design, Iines Jakovlev, and the honorable mention receiver, startup company Materialisting. A special acknowledgment goes to the distinguished jury panel, including Nokia’s Design director, Jonne Harju; Rester Oy’s Head of Partnerships, Anna-Kaisa Huttunen; glass artist Renata Schirm; Sitra’s Futurist, Otto Tähkäpää; and Venture Capitalist Maria Wasastjerna. The jury was chaired by Katja Soini, Chair of Ornamo and Director of Strategy and Sustainability at AFRY. Ornamo Art and Design Finland, Helsinki Design Week #ornamo  #ornamoaward  #ornamoaward2024

Do you believe design can do more than just solve immediate problems? We do. That’s why we are passionate about Transition Design – an approach that connects design with long-term sustainability impact and provides the right tools to create change. 💡🌿 If this sparks your interest, we are running a 3-hour workshop on September 11th. We’ll dive into Transition Design principles, Systems Thinking, and Futures Thinking, and explore how to practically apply these in your work through our Transition Design Toolbox. Read more and join here: https://lnkd.in/drR5muQZ No worries if this date doesn't suit you, we are arranging the same training also: 🍁 September 25th: https://lnkd.in/dZcqqZ6r 🍁 October 7th: https://lnkd.in/dVtrhm7H

When was the last time you played? Erika Kuittinen and Zeynep Falay von Flittner combined #improvisationaltheater, serious #play, and systems awareness for a team wellbeing day at Riviera, an independent movie theater. 'Every company should do this once in a while,' says Atte Laurila, Riviera's founder. The #sustainable culture we envision can begin today. By nurturing both individual and collective #wellbeing, we can create caring, resilient environments. Read more about our approach: https://lnkd.in/dsHjTeQA

We’ve got a great opportunity coming up if you’re interested in designing for the #future and leading #sustainability in your organization or project. Our next training is on September 11th from 14:00 to 17:00 (EEST), where we’ll dive into our Transition Design Toolbox and show you how to start using it in real-world scenarios. If you’re curious about #TransitionDesign and want to get started, we’d love for you to join us! This training serves individuals and groups, e.g. project teams looking to implement more systemic and futures-oriented perspectives. Book your spot here: https://lnkd.in/drR5muQZ 🌱 We also released new personal coaching sessions with Zeynep Falay von Flittner to find out how to push sustainability in your organization. See all of our upcoming trainings and book for personal coaching here: https://lnkd.in/duHhTty7

Last week I had the pleasure of taking part in the 1st Forest Language Co-creation Workshop by Falay Transition Design.  It made me reflect on how language shapes the way we think about our realities and the need for language that reflects the new challenges we face due to the climate emergency. The workshop took place during the same week that the haze from a fire in the Amazon reached where I live, in Porto Alegre (mind you: over 10,000 km away). The workshop gave me the chance to reflect on what I had been experiencing that week, sharing it with my workshop colleague, Eloise Smith-Foster. Among the words we came up with during the workshop, one stuck with me, translating the feelings I had during that week: sys-real. 📖 Sys-real: The surrealness, grief, shock, and confusion of seeing yourself as not separate. The reality of being part of the bigger system, one that is breaking apart and dying. With design backgrounds (and far from being linguists), the word we came up with could hardly be adopted into an actual language. But it translated a multitude of shared feelings among people experiencing, in different ways, the grief of a dying planet. I'd like to thank Savannah Vize (she/her), Iines Reinikainen, and Zeynep Falay von Flittner for facilitating the workshop and such serendipitous encounters. ✨ -- Na semana passada, participei do 1º Workshop de Cocriação de Linguagem das Florestas, organizado pelo Falay Transition Design. Fique reflexiva sobre como a linguagem molda a maneira como pensamos, e a necessidade de termos uma linguagem que reflita os novos desafios que enfrentamos devido à emergência climática. O workshop aconteceu na mesma semana em que a fumaça de um incêndio na Amazônia chegou onde moro, em Porto Alegre (vale ressaltar: a mais de 10.000 km de distância). O workshop me deu a oportunidade de refletir sobre o que eu vinha experimentando naquela semana, compartilhando isso com minha colega de workshop. Entre as palavras que criamos durante o workshop, uma ficou marcada para mim, traduzindo os sentimentos que tive naquela semana: sys-real. Sys-real: A surrealidade, o luto, o choque e a confusão de se ver como um ser inseparável do todo. A realidade de fazer parte de um sistema maior que está se desmoronando e morrendo. Com formações em design (e longe de sermos linguistas), a palavra que criamos dificilmente poderia ser adotada em uma língua real. Mas ela traduziu uma multidão de sentimentos compartilhados entre nós que estamos experimentando, de maneiras diferentes, um luto do que conhecemos como planeta.

Greetings from our first two forest language co-creation workshops! 🌲 Whether online or in person in Puistokatu 4, we journeyed through forest memories, uncovering shared experiences that had no names in our languages yet. Together, we co-created new words to describe them. These workshops sparked valuable discussions about the crucial role of language in revealing, processing, and transforming the power dynamics of our forest relationships. Thank you to everyone who participated! ℹ In the Niin Metsä Vastaa project, we are investigating how language and collective imagination can influence our societal relationships with forests. We are gathering the words and their meanings to create a dictionary that envisions more reciprocal relationships with the forest, for the future. Check out our latest blog post about the project and our methods for the Collective Imagination Practice Community: https://lnkd.in/gJt38Nk9 💭 We are eager to expand our language creation workshops and develop this new method further. We are seeking funding and partners to help us grow. We are also open to exploring this approach in other natural and social contexts. If this resonates with you and you have ideas on how we could collaborate, please get in touch! Learn more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/dZRwFGKx #naturerelationships #forest #metsä #metsäsuhde #kieli #linguisticrelativity #NiinMetsäVastaa Savannah Vize (she/her) Zeynep Falay von Flittner Iines Reinikainen Andrea Gilly Eloise Smith-Foster

Our wonderful Savannah Vize (she/her) was awarded a commendation for her Master thesis by the DAMY award! We are so proud of you! 🎉🎊

Great opportunity for any change-maker to learn about complexity and systems in a playful way! 🌀 Join Erika Kuittinen and Saaramaria Kuittinen from Ekata Theatre on 28.8. at 12-15 at Pranama studio in Kallio, Helsinki! Read more and join here: https://lnkd.in/drauBz-K ℹ More info: In this playful workshop we look at how we can learn to hold complexities using embodied practices. We also get a felt sense experience of how living systems work and change without being controlled. In the times where we are, we need to cultivate our abilities to be with uncertainty without running towards narrow and insufficient solutions. Together we learn how to be stand grounded while remaining flexible, and to breathe amidst chaos.  The exercises included ensemble and improvisational #theatre, #mindfulness, and other #embodied methods. Saaramaria and Erika Eva Kuittinen are Futures Artists who use their creative abilities to explore and teach future skills. They are also members of Falay Transition Design and coordinators of IDG Helsinki Theatre Hub.

We are thrilled to welcome Anni Leppänen and Eloise Smith-Foster to the Falay collective! ✨ Anni is a strategic designer, public policy expert, and community leader with 15 years of experience working in different government organisations in Finland and the UK, most recently as a design lead at the Strategy Department of Helsingin kaupunki – Helsingfors stad – City of Helsinki. Anni is currently exploring ways to combine futures, organisational transformation, policy and creative practice for sustainability transitions. Eloise is a Futures Facilitator, Equity-centered Service and Strategic Designer, and Climate Justice Activist. For over a decade, she has led research, co-design, and implementation of service innovations and culture shifts for impactful organizations like WCVA | CGGC, Arriva Rail London, Extinction Rebellion, B Lab, and the NHS. Currently, she is deepening her application of a Decolonial lens, Trauma-informed Research, and Design Justice Principles to develop pathways towards right relationships with the peoples and other-than-human entities impacted by her work. Read Anni's and Eloise's full bios and get to know the rest of our collective: https://lnkd.in/dq_CcgiK We are a collective of designers, creative practitioners, systems thinkers, sustainability experts, and researchers, bridging the gap in #creativity for sustainability transformations. We offer consulting services, collaborate with funders, and serve as a consortium partner to make a meaningful impact toward a just and sustainable future. #policydesign #strategicdesign #govdesign #decolonialdesign #transformation #sustainability #climatejustice #futures Zeynep Falay von Flittner Savannah Vize Iines Reinikainen Iina Santamäki Andrea Gilly Sara D'Angelo Erika Kuittinen Saaramaria Kuittinen