What we do
We help regenerative-curious organisations to imagine and design futures, by tuning in to nature’s intelligence. We pose pioneering ways of de-composing to re-compose sustainability, innovation and design initiatives.
Why we do it
Old paradigms are no longer serving us. As the world faces narratives of ‘metacrises’ and ‘collapse’, we believe in shifting towards stories of possibility. Embracing decay, we intentionally rot things which aren’t serving good futures, freeing up nutrients for regenerative growth.
Who we do it with
For the future designers, systems thinkers, imagination architects and mycophilic world builders. And for the regen-curious leaders: you came to this role believing change was possible from the inside. It is. This is precisely the moment for a decomposition intervention.
In 2026, sustainability and innovation leaders aren't just grappling with the brief - the role itself feels increasingly fragile. We've been there. We hear you.
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Meet the founder, Jess
For two decades I’ve worked in strategic insight and foresight - consultancy and client side, helping organisations to consciously consider people, cultures and our futures. But my commitment to nature (and Funga) were calling for more.
Our world is facing pivotal uncertainties yet we’re plagued by ‘business as usual’. So I set off on a world mushroom research tour to understand how fungi are impacting our futures.
Five years on and 100+ interviews later, I’ve learned how life-centric thinking can empower us to design regenerative futures together, for people, business, our Earthly home and nonhuman kin.
Yours in spores,
Our partners
Sporesight works with a phenomenal core group of partners who support us on a project basis. This global collective of multidisciplinary minds bring diverse perspectives and lived experience to the work. Based on the challenge, we hand pick the best people to solve problems, the fungal way.
Additionally, we’ve nurtured a network of 300+ global leaders working at the intersection of mycology, regeneration, and futures thinking. If you or your organisation are interested in partnering or connecting with our collective, let us know: hello@sporesight.co
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ALICE JASMINE CRIPPA
EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Alice, of Bogiaisso APS & Differ Studio, is an experience designer specialising in embodied, participative innovation, solving problems by building prototypes and exploring scenarios with both bodies and minds.
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CONNER EASTWOOD
FUTURES IMAGINING
Conner is the Founder and Creative Director of StudioCone, an experimental design studio helping create conscious and equitable futures, through radical imagination and immersive interventions at the intersect of society, technology and ecology.
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JANVIER HAFASHA
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE / RESILIENCE
Janvier is the Executive Director of HODARI Foundation, a refugee-led nonprofit. Drawing from lived experience in displaced life, he builds refugee resilience via regenerative mushroom farming + permaculture.
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ELIZABETH HOFVENSCHIÖLD
AI & ETHICS
Elizabeth teaches business & AI ethics, futures thinking + strategy at ESB - where tomorrow’s ideas take root. She researches responsible AI with a co-creative twist, shaping ethical tech future narratives. She’s a forest explorer & fungi philosopher.
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GRACE PALMER
SCIENTIFIC WRITING + FUTURES
Grace is a Biotech graduate, science and adrenaline enthusiast happiest in water, forests, doing DIY, writing or researching. Governed by the mantra mostly happy, mostly healthy, mostly going in the right direction.
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OLI GENN-BASH
FUNGI CONSULTANT
Oli, founder at The Fungi Consultant, is a mycology educator and consultant exploring the intersection of functional mushrooms, systems thinking, and wellbeing—bridging science, tradition, and fungal wisdom to support personal and planetary health.
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RENEE DAVIS
MYCOLOGY | ENGINEER
Renee is a mycologist-engineer. Formerly R&D Director at Fungi Perfecti, she’s a doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, active in the fungal biotech startup ecosystem and passionate about applying fungi to regenerative systems, innovation, and design.
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SAMANTHA KOCHES
REGENERATIVE BUSINESS
Samantha is the Founder and Executive Director of nonprofit Nourish All, building livelihoods + food security with vulnerable communities. Formerly, she consulted in strategy for Feeding America + Bain & Company, + regenerative land management for Systemiq.
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SULAIMAN R. KHAN
ANTI-ABLEISM
Sulaiman, is a Global Majority spicy Disabled AF oracle. As the Founder of ThisAbility® Limited, his life goal is designing radical ecosystems of curiosity (and care), Access Intimacy for collective liberation, and acts of daily Revolutionary LOVE®.
Why fungi?
Fungi are fun. They offer a model for better ways of being - in our personal lives, in business and our relationship with the planet. Metaphorically, they’re a source of wisdom and mind-expansion helping us reimagine and shape our worlds. Tangibly, fungi offer sustainable alternatives in food, materials, packaging and construction. Learn more by following our writing, Spore-drops.
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Image description: A grainy, light blue-hued photograph of a woman’s hand holding the upside-down cap of a mushroom, displaying how its gills spread from the centre of the stem.
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RESEARCH UNDERPINNING OUR WORK
Since 2021 , Sporesight founder Jess Jorgensen has been on a global research tour: 5+ years. 100+ interviews and counting with pioneers in fungi and life-centric thinking, exploring the impact of fungi on human futures.
Why regenerative futures?
Our mission is to close the human-nature disconnect, inspiring regenerative futures for everyone. You don't need another story of collapse and ecocide. Our growth obsession creates a chunky existential crisis: how do we balance human progress with nature's needs? By shifting towards life-centric design thinking, we recognise that we're entangled and inseparable from the web of life. Imagine! We can shift from extraction to regeneration.
Rot + Regeneration
Sporesight’s Rot + Regeneration framework sits at the heart of our work. Inspired by nature’s intelligence, it shares new ways to imagine and design regenerative futures. For a how-to guide on applying these principles in your world, check out our playbook Fungi as your Futurist.
FAQs
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A regenerative design studio that thinks like fungi. We help you rot the dead stuff and grow what's next. Strategy, foresight, innovation minus the corporate cosplay.
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Three things. Decomposition Day: a one-day immersion at your org or (better) in the field. Speaking, inspiration or learning session at your org or event. Decomposition Strategy: the full Sporesight strategic consultancy, from foresight through to regenerative design.
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Because fungi have run the planet's regeneration economy for 400+ million years. We're borrowing the best R&D in evolutionary history.
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Our work is grounded in a multi-year research tour interviewing 100+ fungi pioneers across five continents, and 20+ years experience leading global insight initiaitves. We bring receipts, not crystals.
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We experiment with myco-materials to bring our work to life and inspire people with the magic of mycelium.
Substrates are sourced from agricultural byproducts and food waste streams, locally where possible. No synthetic binders, additives, or virgin materials. Moulds are DIY, sourced from dumpster diving.
People are encouraged to take home and compost their materials, to further educate on cyclical value.
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Nope. That's our job. You bring the broken system, we bring the mycelial thinking. Curiosity and an open mind are the only prerequisites.
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Just like fungi, acquiring Sporesight comes in various shapes and sizes. We scope to your ambition and budget, and offer sliding scale prices to Big Corp > Academic Institutions > Nonprofits > SMEs and start-ups.
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You don't brief us; you decompose with us. Book a Decomposition Day, out in the woods or inside your org. Learn to rot first and the rebuilding comes after. If that feels too much, just book a call to talk first.
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Not just yet; perhaps in future! Sporesight pops up around Europe, North America, Southern Africa when the conditions are right. We are based between London and Cape Town.
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You tell me.
WE ARE A PROUDLY SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Sporesight is growing for good, not greed. We're a social enterprise - profits go back into the work, supporting regenerative initiatives.
We believe in
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Extraction to Regeneration → By closing the human-nature disconnect, we can shift to relational care between humans, more-than-humans and Mother Earth.
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Reacting to Creating Futures → By assessing how we relate to our futures, we can choose our role in them, shifting from merely reacting to change, to actively creating it.
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Human-centric to Ecosystem-centric → By integrating nature-centric intelligence into design and research, we can inspire regenerative practice.
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Access over exclusivity → We promote futures thinking and fungi for all — nobody ‘owns’ the natural world — no gatekeepers, only inclusive accessibility.
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For the funga! → We move past “what can mushrooms do for us”, into also, “what can we do for the mushrooms?”
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Ancestral intelligence over colonial extraction → We think in generations, not quarters — long-term stewardship over short-term gains.
WORKING WITH US
Employment
Due to the nature of Sporesight as a Social Enterprise project, we do not offer employment. We’ll try to respond to all email requests depending on capacity, so don’t worry if you don’t hear from us for some time.