torus Ecosystems of Change

Torus Ecosystems of Change

What pace can you sustain?

A house of initiatives for planetary transition: we work with organizations and with people, backed by thirteen years of research on time, and now on how to care for the invisible infrastructures that hold change up.

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Where do you start?

Two doors into the same work with time: one for organizations that look after what sustains change, one for people who want to take back their own rhythm.

For organizations

Is your organization running on borrowed time?

For mission driven organizations and the funders behind them.

See the ways to begin

For individuals

Who sets your pace?

For leaders, founders and people in transition.

See the ways to begin

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Where the world is shifting

The single narrative tells collapse as a forecast. For many peoples it is a memory, and from that memory we learn what it means to sustain and to maintain.

Now: one narrative of collapse

  • Collapse is told as a prediction, and urgency decides what gets done.
  • The pace is set by those who already organized the world.
  • What holds everything up stays unfunded and unnamed.

Next: new paths of care

  • Collapse is remembered, not guessed: many peoples have already crossed the end of a world.
  • Sustaining and maintaining count as much as building something new.
  • Each place finds its own pace, rooted in its own cosmovisions.
  • fastslow
  • masculinefeminine
  • westerndecolonial
  • possessionaccess
  • capitalismshared economy
  • clockmoon phases
  • dogmaalchemy
  • fear of deathtalking about death
  • noisesilence
  • superficialitydepth
  • industrial productionmakers movement
  • syntheticorganic
  • agribusinesslocal agriculture
  • institutionspeople
  • individualitycollective
  • separationconnection

Seen at

Malmö, Lisbon, Rio, Amsterdam. The same invitation, with different audiences: to read your own time before someone else sets it.

The Conference, Malmö, 2024.
Future Days, Lisbon 2024
Everything is Temporal
The Conference, Malmö 2024
MozFest House, Amsterdam 2024
What Design Can Do Live, Amsterdam 2024
Facilitation
Casa Firjan, Rio de Janeiro 2023
Festival Futuros Possíveis
KES Summit, Trancoso 2023
Talk
TEDxRio 2020
Talk, online
Fractal 2016 to 2025
Protagonists of the times, with Perestroika

Watch

On Our Relationship With Time A six minute excerpt from a keynote on time, identity and decision making.

Clients and partners

  • Unilever
  • Rede Globo
  • Banco do Brasil
  • Santander
  • Nubank
  • Grendene
  • University of Jena
  • Time Machine Europe
  • Governo do Espírito Santo
  • Instituto Toriba
  • Instituto Afrofuturo
  • Unearthodox
  • AIxDESIGN
  • Manos Visibles
  • Odd Studio
  • Das Pretas
  • Perestroika
  • FLAGCX
  • IAM

Keynotes and events

  • UN
  • UNESCO
  • TEDxRio
  • Max Planck Institute
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Creative Europe
  • House of Beautiful Business
  • Horasis
  • Linnaeus University
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Elisava
  • IAAC
  • BAU
  • What Design Can Do
  • Future Days
  • The Conference
  • Casa Firjan
  • KES Summit

An invitation

Find out whose clock your organization is living on.

If your work lives on horizons longer than a quarter, let us read this threshold together. The first conversation is to see what fits.

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  2. If it fits, you receive a written proposal with scope, dates and price.
  3. If not, we say so.

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Letters

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