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Fungi as your Futurist

An invitation to play with 12 design principles for imagining regenerative futures

What IS THIS?

Fungi as your Futurist is a playbook posing new ways to design regenerative futures, inspired by nature’s intelligence. It invites usyou to be more like a mushroom. It aims to inspire imgination and action for shaping good futures, for humans and our more-than-human neighbours.

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.

  • Within a carousel of images, this is a close-up photograph of orange mushrooms growing on a log. The photograph is taken from the underside of the mushrooms, showing gills in straight lines growing from the central stems of each mushroom.

    Playbook + Toolkit

    We’ve designed a set of free tools to put these principles into practice: a playbook, a workshop outline and deck of prompting cards. No strings attached.

    Free Download
  • Within a carousel of images, this is a grainy close-up of the underside of a white mushroom, showing net-like pores.

    Working Session

    2 hr guided working session, seeding spores for imagining integration of fungi principles in your world.

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    Field Trip

    A day outdoors in nature: your in-person immersion into nature-centric thinking, integrating fungi-inspired regenerative principles in your world.

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Speaking

Let’s get fungal! We run talks, workshops and education sessions about looking through a fungi lens.

We talk about

How to become fungal.
How to organise like mycelium.
How fungi are impacting our futures. 
How mushrooms have a branding issue.
Decentralising foresight, just like fungi.
Rot & regeneration: The light & the dark of mushrooms.
Why fungi are the ultimate futurists.
What mushrooms can teach us about futures.
And what they can teach us being good brands / good researchers.

Jess bio

Jess Jorgensen helps decision-makers shape good futures by tuning into fungi and nature’s intelligence. A foresight strategist with two decades in global insights, she’s helped 200+ brands to consciously consider people and our futures. After two years exploring mushroom culture worldwide, she now advises and serves on the HODARI Foundation Board while running Sporesight. UK & ZA based.

SPEAKING

Book us for

  • Our talks are interactive, perspective-shifting and fun(gi). 

    Learning about mushrooms and natural systems is mind-expanding. Learning together about the magic of fungi x futures is radical. 

    Book us to visit your team/agency, for conferences, events or keynotes.

  • We design collaborative education sessions for varying levels of foresight and/or fungi knowledge and interest.

    Bring your own knowledge of foresight, fungi, or both, to the room. We learn together!

    Book us for general education or an engagement tailored to your brief.

  • Sporesight brings together the best of our collective, Spore-co, to host workshops.

    Designed to address the key challenges we focus on:

    • Landing foresights in your org. → We spark reperception — shifting stakeholder mindsets and empowering them to take action.

    • Applied strategy → Transforming future scenarios into the ‘what next’ with you.

    • Sustainability solutions → Partnering with nature and fungi to craft radical, future-shaping solutions.

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Chat with founder, Jess, to talk about talking together.