SystemsLab
Designing with flows, cycles and relationships.
SystemsLab integrates biomimicry, circular design, political ecology, and complex systems thinking to rethink how human structures operate in conditions of uncertainty. It studies flows of matter, energy, time, and attention, drawing lessons from ecosystems to redesign supply chains, governance models, territorial strategies, and organizational cultures. This Lab confronts the realities of resource depletion, climate instability, AI-driven acceleration, and geopolitical tensions, translating them into actionable frameworks for regeneration and adaptation. The aim is not efficiency, but long-term viability: creating systems that can sense, respond, redistribute, and evolve in step with a turbulent century.
Systems Diagnostic
SystemsLab begins by examining how organizations and territories behave when their assumptions meet reality. Most institutions were designed for stability: predictable markets, cheap resources, linear supply chains, manageable climate. Those conditions are over. The first step of this Lab is a diagnostic phase — a structured analysis of flows, dependencies, vulnerabilities, and blind spots — not as an abstract exercise, but as a preparation for redesign. This assessment can be delivered as a short engagement or as the opening phase of a deeper collaboration.
Start a Systems Diagnostic with us that reveals where your organization is fragile and where resilience is possible
Systems Workshops
Ecological systems manage uncertainty better than human institutions. They decentralize sensing, diversify strategies, adapt continuously, and reorganize after disturbance. Translating these principles into human contexts requires methodological clarity. This Lab uses design thinking from the d.school lineage, Circulab tools for the circular economy, and a suite of systems mapping and scenario methods to help teams understand how their system actually functions. It introduces Life’s Principles from biomimicry, complexity insights from ecology, and regenerative logics from political ecology and permaculture.
These sessions are hands-on: teams map flows, identify leverage points, simulate disruptions, and explore alternatives. The value comes not from presentations but from structured conversation and collective intelligence made visible.
Work with us through facilitated Systems Workshops based on Circulab tools, design thinking frameworks, and ecological principles
Learning Expeditions
SystemsLab is shaped by real practice, not theory. Years of circular economy work, upcycling innovation, design teaching, and land-based experimentation create a form of literacy that merges conceptual clarity with material reality. When teams engage in this Lab, they encounter examples drawn from industries, farms, territories, and lived ecological constraints. These case stories are not framed as best practices but as evidence of what happens when systems reveal their true behavior.
This grounding is essential: people learn faster when insights are physical, contextual, and connected to lived experience. For organizations, this phase becomes an opportunity to surface unspoken assumptions and to align around the real tensions shaping the future.
Invite SystemsLab to design an applied Learning Expeditions for your team, rooted in real-world examples and initiatives
Circulab Redesign Sprints
The core of SystemsLab is the redesign process. Once vulnerabilities and opportunities are visible, the work shifts to building structures that can adapt rather than break. This is where Circulab circular design canvas, biomimicry’s Life’s Principles, Theory U’s deep listening, prototyping cycles, and scenario-based decision-making converge. Teams engage in redesign sprints that move from insight to structure: reconfiguring governance, distributing sensing, building redundancy, shifting resource flows, and exploring regenerative strategies that align with planetary boundaries.
Our goal is not corporate “transformation theatre” but operational evolution — building systems that can survive and learn in volatile conditions.
Engage in a structured Circulab Redesign Sprint using our tools and frameworks, biomimicry principles and adaptive systems methods
Systems Strategy Program
Some challenges cannot be solved in a workshop. Water governance, territorial resilience, post-growth organisational shifts, climate adaptation, and deep culture change require ongoing collaboration. SystemsLab offers multi-month engagements where teams work alongside this methodology to shift internal narratives, redesign structures, and prepare for long-term realities. These engagements often combine diagnostic phases, strategic foresight, systemic redesign, and hands-on experimentation.
Shorter collaborations are possible, but this Lab specializes in guiding complex systems through periods of transition — work that demands patience, rigor, and a willingness to rethink inherited assumptions.
For complex transitions, partner with SystemsLab through a long-term collaboration integrating strategy, foresight and regeneration
Toward a New Systems Literacy
SystemsLab continues to evolve by merging ecology, technology, political economy, and cultural analysis into new frameworks for the century ahead. Future work will deepen the integration of territorial resilience models, early-warning signals, post-growth architectures, and cross-scale governance patterns inspired by ecological systems. These explorations exist not to predict the future but to prepare for it.
If your organization is exploring the future of governance, territorial adaptation, or regenerative transition, let’s start a conversation
