Underhyped tech for post-development
A project to identify, imagine, and activate nine pioneering technologies with high eco-social potential that currently go unnoticed.
Escuela SUR is our new educational platform, created for individuals, groups, communities, and institutions that want to transform the world without beating around the bush.
We work from the South because this is where resistance, alternatives, and living knowledge that challenge the dominant order are born.
We do not teach recipes: we accompany transition processes, helping to interpret the historical moment, recognize responsibilities, and design fair, regenerative, and pluriversal systems.
Our actions
Our emerging design practice fuses innovative methods with solid ethical considerations for a more democratic, decentralized, and sustainable futures.
2030 visions for the trade relationship between Canada and Latin America
We mapped forces of change and 2030 visions across five sectors, and co-created 10 actions to guide decisions over the next 36 months.
Establish an international group of experts and community leaders
We bring together specialists and community leaders to explore sensor/IoT technologies, energy, and biotechnology with a focus on post-development.
The future of pluriversal peace
An analytical and creative process with young researchers to transform experiences and territories into stories of the future. We write, imagine, and prototype possible coexistences for a pluriversal peace.
Systems thinking guide for public innovation
We co-written this comprehensive guide that enables public officials to adopt a complex, system-oriented perspective.
Socio-Economic Integration Toolkit for Migrants and Returnees from Venezuela
This toolkit is a resource designed to equip the public, private, and financial sectors to unlock the potential of socio-economic integration of the migrant Venezuelan population.
Underhyped tech for post-development
A project to identify, imagine, and activate nine pioneering technologies with high eco-social potential that currently go unnoticed.
2030 visions for the trade relationship between Canada and Latin America
We mapped forces of change and 2030 visions across five sectors, and co-created 10 actions to guide decisions over the next 36 months.
Establish an international group of experts and community leaders
We bring together specialists and community leaders to explore sensor/IoT technologies, energy, and biotechnology with a focus on post-development.
The future of pluriversal peace
An analytical and creative process with young researchers to transform experiences and territories into stories of the future. We write, imagine, and prototype possible coexistences for a pluriversal peace.
Systems thinking guide for public innovation
We co-written this comprehensive guide that enables public officials to adopt a complex, system-oriented perspective.
We are a Latin American consultancy fostering ecosocial transitions through research, design, foresight, and systems thinking.
We join forces with public and private entities, grassroots communities, and territorial actors to unlock the imagination and potential for change toward more plural, just, and regenerative systems.
Our interdisciplinary approach promotes practices that celebrate diversity, strengthen communities, and restore our connection with nature.
Our services
We focus on three dimensions of change:
Challenge
Status Quo
Shifting views to redefine possibilities
It is aimed primarily at public and private entities seeking to deepen the understanding and foresight of the most intricate problems of our era.
Mapping Change Dynamics
– Social cartography, horizon scanning –
Understanding Wicked Problems
– Systems mapping, causal analysis –
Foresight and Future Visions
– Scenarios, world building, unintended consequences, provocations –
Nurture
Niches
Supporting local change ecosystems
We foster the transformative potential of grassroots communities and territorial actors, transforming bold ideas into tangible realities.
In-depth Research
– Mapping needs, behaviors, and emotions –
Mapping Change Ecosystems
– Pioneers mapping, positive deviance radar –
Piloting Change
– Rapid prototyping, piloting alternatives –
Strengthening Autonomies
– Local practices beyond formal democracy, economic society, and Western modernity –
Enable
Transitions
Building collective action
We are a bridge of worlds, bringing together public and private entities with grassroots communities to co-create and foster collective intelligence.
Pluriversal Contact Spaces
– Multisectorial collective intelligence –
Portfolio for Systemic Intervention
– Leverage points, pathways for transition –
Co-Designing Initiatives and Infrastructures
– Actions, services, products, communities, policies, labs, programs –
Upskilling and Capacity Building
– Training, workshops, toolkits, guides, methodologies –
They trust us
Our community
Join us in this dynamic learning landscape, where every participant contributes to propelling the acceleration of ecosocial transitions. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a curious learner, our community invites you to shape the future with us, a future defined by collaboration, co-creation, and a commitment to a pluriverse of possibilities.
Apply to join our Spanish-speaking community in Discord.
Angélica Bello
Camila Pacheco
César Rosales
Giulia Bolzan
Isabel García
Isabel Quintanilla
Ivan Peñaranda
Jesus David Ortiz
Jody Parra
Juan Sebastián Sánchez
Laura Pico
Livia Fioretti
Liza Bello
Maria Isabel Giraldo
Marie Zázvorková
Mauricio Franco
Miguel Bello
Nataly Salazar
Ricardo Lapeira
Our network
Radical collaboration is a fundamental principle for achieving a regenerative future. Our partners complement our expertise to tackle highly complex projects, and we learn from each other with every new challenge.
Shared values for shared value.
