What we do

We help decision-makers shape good futures, by thinking more like nature and fungi. Through advocacy, imagination and consultancy, we inspire regenerative innovation and systems design, with nature as a stakeholder.

Why we do it

Old paradigms are no longer serving us. As we face polycrisis and ecocide, we need transformative ways of being. Our futures are uncertain, and we have the power to shape them.

Who we do it with

Anyone who agrees that you can’t do business on a dead planet. Sustainability leaders. Innovation leaders. Brave brands. B-Corps. Nonprofits. Progressive corporates. Visionary founders. Collaborative agencies. Decision-makers with the agency to shape good futures.

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Meet the founder, Jess

For two decades I’ve worked in strategic insights - agencies and client side, helping organisations to consciously consider people, cultures and our futures. But my commitment to nature (and mushrooms) 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.

I’ve learned how, with foresight, nature and fungi’s principles can empower us to design regenerative futures together.

Yours in spores.

Our partners

Sporesight works with a network of partners that support us on a project basis. This global collective of multidisciplinary minds bring diverse range of perspective and lived experience to each challenge.

Based on the challenge, we hand pick the best people to solve problems, the fungal way. Interested in being part of our network? If you or your org are interested in partnering, let us know.

  • Sporesight partner photo of Alce Jasmine Crippa

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo of Conner Eastwood

    CONNER EASTWOOD

    FUTURES IMAGINING

    Conner is the Founded 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.

  • Sporesight partner photo of Janvier Hafasha

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Elizabeth Hofvenschiöld

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Grace Palmer

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Oli Genn-Bash

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Renee Davis

    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.

  • Sporesight partner profile photo Samantha Koches

    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 on our newsletter, Spore-drops.

Image description: A grainy orange-hued close-up photograph of small, delicate mushrooms growing in moss.

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.

Image description: A close-up photograph of several turkey-tail mushrooms, growing alongside each other. Each mushroom is shaped like a fan, with concentric rings of colour, from oranges to blues to browns and yellows.

  • Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez; Lets Become Fungal

    “There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements […] carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors.”

  • HIgh snobiety

    “Mushrooms may not just be the produce, but the organism of our time, one with the capacity to change not only how we eat, but how we think and live. Mushrooms offer a model of a healthier way of being — in our personal lives, in our relationships with others, and our relationship with the planet.”

  • Doug Bierand, In Search of Mycotopia

    “Part of the growing appeal of fungi is that they represent means, examples, and ways of thinking through which we might subvert an unsustainable status quo.”

Why symbiotic futures?

Our mission is to close the human-nature disconnect, inspiring regenerative futures for everyone.

HUMAN-NATURE

You don’t need another story of polycrises, chaos or collapse. We are facing transformation on a planetary scale. Our relentless drive for economic growth creates a chunky existential crisis: how do we balance human progress with nature's needs? The sustainability crisis stems from a human-nature disconnect. The perceived human right to dominate, disregard and ‘resource’ nature is rooted in forgetting that we are nature. Let’s remember that we are entangled, inseparable from nature. By integrating nature-centric thinking in how we relate to each other and Mother Earth, we can shift from destruction to harmony, extraction to regeneration.

REGENERATIVE FUTURES

Regenerative design thinking focuses on humans and nature working together. It imagines a world where humans, natural systems and our more-than-human neighbours coexist and coevolve in harmony, leading to long-term benefits for both people and the planet. Regeneration is a holistic approach to reshaping systems, innovation, infrastructure, business, policy, products and services. It goes beyond harm reduction, to actively heal the environment. From seeing people and nature as resources to be 'used', to a practice of relational care, becoming good ancestors for future generations.

FUNGI PRINCIPLES: IMAGINATION & EMERGENCE

We’ve developed a set of Fungi Principles to imagine regenerative futures. They invite us to be more like a mushroom, inspiring public imagination and collective action. They pose radical new ways to design regenerative, ecosystem-centric systems and innovation. They can be ‘applied’ strategically, or purely enjoyed. We’re holding space for both. We share more questions than answers and invite you to learn with us.

 

We believe in

  • Extraction to Regeneration → By closing the human-nature disconnect, we can shift to relational care between humans, more-than-humans and Mother Earth.

  • Reaction to Creation → 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.

  • Human-centric to Ecosystem-centric → By integrating nature-centric intelligence into design and research, we can inspire regenerative practice.

  • Access over exclusivity → We promote futures thinking and fungi for all — nobody ‘owns’ the natural world — no gatekeepers, only inclusive accessibility.

  • For the funga! → We move past “what can mushrooms do for us”, into also, “what can we do for the mushrooms?”

  • Ancestral intelligence over colonial extraction → We think in generations, not quarters — long-term stewardship over short-term gains.