The Falay Transition Design Collective has been a passion-led experiment born from a deep longing to practice different ways of being, working, and shaping futures together.
As practitioners of systems change we recognise that things are not meant to grow forever. After three years of experimenting and imagining, we have taken the decision to close the chapter of Falay Transition Design Collective. All of our talented collective members will continue to build more hopeful futures. If you’d like to keep up with our members and their ongoing work, this is how you can find us moving forward:
Past members
Zeynep Falay von Flittner
Founder, Transition Designer
zeynep@falayconsulting.com
Falay Transition Design Collective was born from a deep longing to practice different ways of being, working, and shaping futures together. For me, it has been a courageous, imperfect, and profoundly meaningful experiment in trust, care, and collective imagination. I am grateful for everyone who walked part of this journey with openness, courage, and curiosity and for all that we learned together, including what did not work as hoped. These learnings continue to shape my path.
💡 Topics for collaboration: I continue my work as a solo entrepreneur under Falay Transition Design, as I did before the emergence of the collective. I keep offering Regenerative Leadership Programs and Transition Design processes for organizations and ecosystems and keep organizing the Rest and Resilience Retreats. My work focuses on systems change and complexity, and on combining scientific research with artistic and embodied practices to support deep, lasting transformation. I look forward to crossing paths again, in new constellations and new forms.
Iina Santamäki
Regenerative Facilitator & Consultant
iina@iinasantamaki.com
💡 Topics for collaboration: I’ll continue working as a regenerative facilitator, holding space and processes for collective transformation. Especially during these times, I am passionate about facilitating multi-stakeholder processes and understanding different perspectives and worldviews. In my work, I integrate learnings from Deep Democracy (conflict facilitation), Living Systems & Regenerative Leadership, Systems Thinking & Complexity Science, nature-based & embodied practices, as well as Zen Buddhism.
Savannah Vize
Regenerative Designer-Researcher
savannah@sooonstudio.com
Being part of this collective has been complex and meaningful, with lessons emerging through both alignment and tension about collaboration, power, and care. This ending has come at a time of other big transitions in my personal and professional life. I’ve recently made the move from Helsinki to Copenhagen where I’m looking forward to expanding my working network around themes of regenerative design, imagination, play and climate resilience, and weaving in learnings from my time with Falay. I hope to connect with many of you on future projects and collaborations.
💡 Topics for collaboration: Play and imagination for sustainability transitions, design research, community engagement and climate resilience, visual design
Eloise Smith-Foster
Futures Facilitator, Strategic Designer and Climate Justice Activist
eloise.smith.foster@gmail.com
💡 Topics for collaboration: Based in Sheffield, UK I’m keen to bring my anti-oppressive, decolonial lenses and skills in research, grassroots organising, service design and participatory futures to strategy, futures, climate and social justice work across sectors.
Anni Leppänen
Policy Designer
anni@futuresmundane.com
I will continue working with experiential futures and systems change for sustainability transformations with my activist entrepreneurial platform - futures mundane. You can also find me at Puistokatu 4.
Andrea Gilly
Strategic designer
andrea.gillymarquez@gmail.com
I am grateful for the space we created, and the opportunity to explore my interests and see that they had relevance for others. Working with such talented creatives has given me hope and motivation to work on my passion and continue the work that at times felt impossible. There is strength in numbers, and we need reminders that we can make change happen, as long as we rely on each other, and work for a greater good. Thank you for believing in us, I will continue the work you have known me for, and I hope to see you show up for it too. Please reach out if you have ideas, suggestions or words of wisdom!
💡 Topics for collaboration: hope, imagination, more-than-human connection & nature immersion, future experiences and prototypes, possible futures: food futures, ecological, feminist & decolonial futures, and anything related to foraging, gardening, fermentation and community building.