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PROJECT HELIOS

Step into shared visions for creating brighter futures together -- now.

We are a collective of designers, futurists, artists, and social innovators with a belief that optimistic visions drive us toward better futures. And our ability to make and manifest those ideas in physical form can play a stronger hand in helping create the futures we want to live in. We are soul-bound in purpose. We believe in powering the arc of humanity, justice, optimism, and dignity. We believe in using our craft to help others collectively reach for radically positive futures and healthier  systems.

What we do

We partner with organizations to inspire and foster critical collaborations based the futures they want to create now. We work with coalitions to imagine, clarify and physically manifest bold visions. We build immersions so that groups of people can step into the future together. Experience it. Feel it. Touch it.  So that they can turn toward their brighter purpose and each other– and strategize how they can move mountains together to create the futures they want to live in now.

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Creativity, Innovation, Futures

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HOW WE DO THIS

We make shared imaginations material. We take a design futures approach, which is a combination of futures thinking and participatory design. First, we collectively craft shared stories about what life looks and feels like in an irresistible future. We then use our craft to express those stories so that people can step into and critically examine tangible aspects of possible futures. We then use backcasting to identify what we want to bring into the now.

Our Services

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make YOUR values and principles tangible

Too often our ideas for change remain vague and generic. Design Futures practices help you tell specific and vivid stories about the futures you are creating.

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complement a design thinking project

We offer Design Futures workshops and mini-projects that bring a dose of optimistic, collective long-term thinking into ongoing projects

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Team Inspiration

Design Futures workshops build visionary skills and shared perspectives on the future of projects, organizations, or complex challenges. Use these workshops to inject inspiration when you need it.

What it looks like

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Positive, collective imagining

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Getting specific through future moments

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Make it tangible by giving form

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Invite people into immersive experiences

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Backcasting to
design forward

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WHAT WE OFFER

We host regular Healthcare Futures meetups. 

We create an environments for people to learn methods, collaborate on concepts, and find partners. 

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WORKSHOP:
FUTURES THINKING

90 Minute Crash Course We will show you why and how to apply future thinking to you work.

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WORKSHOP:Collectively DEFINE YOUR Vision

4 Hour Session to Full Day We will guide you to find situations in the future worth exploring​

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PRojeCTS: BRING THE FUTURE TO LIFE

4 weeks to 4 months We will stage a projections of the future to generate dialog & curiosity.

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healthcare Futures

Imagining and clarifying long-term goals

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Youth Service Corps:
Health Force

What if young people enlisted in a service force of healers? Care becomes a service commitment as serious as our armed forces. High school and college students train under nurse mentors around the world to learn first-hand the power of individual care.

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Dignified Bedside Care

Helathcare technology is evolving fast. Policy drives how care happens. But what do nurses and patients truly want care to look like? Let's collaboratively determine the ideal vision.

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Community Embedded Healthcare

What if nurses were integral to the ways that communities integrate health into everyday life? In a world that values equity and prioritizes wellness, nurses become urban planners who structure healthcare into the fabric of our civic landscape. Healthcare happens everyday and everywhere as part of routine life, resulting in personalized, integrated, joyful, purposeful wellness.

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Justice and Equity

Helathcare is not yet equitable. What does it look and feel like when it is? Let's imagine how justice is embodied in everyday healthcare structures.

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Tell us about your seeds

What exciting things are happening already?

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