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The Summit 2026 || CIFS & Danish Industry

Rot before regeneration

Keynote: Rot before Regeneration

This talk brings fungal intelligence to design and strategy; starting with decomposition. Instead of asking "what should we create next?", it asks: what needs to rot first? Amid 2026's collapse narratives, the provocation reframes rupture as raw material: new value unlocked by breaking things down, futures built regeneratively from the parts. Recently decomposed on stage: the systems of death (Future Days, Copenhagen) and the infrastructures of imagination (UAL).

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Copenhagen // March 2026

being a decomposer mushroom

In Foresight x AI x Fungi, we explore how human foresight, artificial and fungal intelligences are powerful combined forces for organisational readiness through times of flux.

Our talk Fungi as your Futurist: How to think like fungi, shares nature’s intelligence for transforming how we think, work and design for regenerative futures.

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Image description: Jess Jorgensen, presenting on stage at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies & Danish Industry “The Summit in March 2026.

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Our talk Myco Futures explores five ways in which fungi innovation is creating viable, regenerative options for how we heal, build resilience, live, eat and die. And, addressing the UN SDGs.

Meet Jess

Jess Jorgensen is the Foundress of Sporesight, shaping regenerative futures by tuning into nature's intelligence. As an ex-Global Insight Lead and Agency Director, her 20 year transdisciplinary practice bridges foresight strategy, design research and a 5+ year ethnographic tour exploring fungal futures. She is an educator, speaker, mycophile, imagination architect, mycomaterial experimenter and Board Vice Chair for refugee-led Hodari Foundation.

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Jess presenting in Copenhagen
Jess presenting at London College of Communication
Jess presenting in East Sussex

Talks & interviews (selection)

UPCOMING: RCA Design Futures Symposium 2026: Untangling Tomorrows: reserve a spot

UPCOMING: Psychedelic Design Awards Judge + Speaker - Nov 2026: enter here

UPCOMING: World Mushroom Forum - Growing the Decomposition Economy: tickets here

JUST GONE: Future Days 2026 in Copenhagen official side event: Growing the Decomposition Economy

JUST GONE: Better Questions with Firetail - July 2026

Psychedelics Design - Thinking like Fungi - July 2026

Sleight of Brand - How it was named: Sporesight  - July 2026

EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk: Fungi as your Futurist - Oct 2025

UAL London College of Communication: MA Design for Art Direction - May 2026

UAL London College of Communication: MA Design Management - May 2026

Decomposition Day - UK May 2026

Good Innovation “Think Like Fungi” - UK Jan 2026

South London Mushroom Club: Fungi as your Futurist - Oct 2025

L*Osmonauta - Decompose to Recompose - 2026 edition

Spore Journeys podcast - Compost the Status Quo - Oct 2025

Culture Connectors podcast - A Love Letter to Mushrooms - Apr 2025

Futures Friends London - 3 Fungi Futures - July 2025

BAMM Raw - Innovation short film - 2025

BUNS - Embedding fungal intelligence in business ITALIAN / ENGLISH

The Independent Consultants Group: Mushrooms have a branding issue, with Kim Townend - May 2024

The Mix London: Mushrooms have a branding issue, with Kim Townend - 2024

Research Live - Off the beaten path: Leaving the agency world - Mar 2024

Research Live - A spore for success: My life researching mushrooms - Jun 2024

The Bento Club podcast - How mushrooms can inspire better insights in global research - Jan 2024