A way of thinking, inspired by fungi.
WE ARE A REGENERATIVE FORESIGHT PRACTICE
We build the capacity — in leaders and organisations — to acquire sporesight: to imagine plural futures, decompose what needs to rot, and grow what regenerates from the parts.
Image description: Profile picture of Sporesight founder, Jess Jorgensen, smiling. Her profile overlays a landscape image of the Ugandan countryside, taken during research fieldwork with refugee mushroom growers.
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How to sporesight
For individuals and teams, by acquiring sporesight you gain the capacity to see what needs to die, end it well, and grow what regenerates from the parts. Here’s how to engage:
Acquire the capacity to see, let go, and author endings rather than suffer them. In here: Masterclasses and Decomposition Days.
Acquire the missing function for endings. In here: Rot Retreats, Spore-Print decomposition strategy and in-org capacity building.
LET’S TALK
Speaking
Keynote talks as a spark and provocation for acquiring sporesight and why this matters now more than ever.
Follow our world mushroom tour: a 5+ year research exploration that underpins all of our work. Plus, case studies and live collabs as they happen.
Who is this for?
For individuals…
Futurists, designers, strategists, researchers and founders — inside organisations or working solo — who believe in regenerative change but feel up against everything. You need your imagination re-resourced, and permission to let go. The shift: from dreading endings to authoring them.
For teams…
Teams whose strategy assumes a world that's gone, still funding initiatives nobody believes in. You need a function for endings, not another plan for beginnings. The shift: what's expired ends well, and its value — budget, talent, energy — feeds what's next.
OUR FRAMEWORK
Rot + Regeneration
In nature, nothing regenerates without first breaking down. The same is true for strategies, systems, and the assumptions holding them in place. Our work follows Sporesight’s Rot + Regeneration framework, where a decomposition strategy is the precursor for regenerative growth.
Who we’ve worked with in the past:
Live projects
We love co-creating with like-minded peers. Below are a handful of live projects…
Fungi is your futurist.
Want to collaborate?
PLAYBOOK FOR SYMBIOTIC FUTURES
Fungi as your Futurist
A playbook sharing 12 design principles for regenerative futures. Also, an invitation to think like fungi. Co-created with 18+ global thinkers.
the rot repository
what needs to rot?
a collective map of systems, habits, structures, narratives, industries. anything you’re ready to let go.
REPORT + TALK
Myco-Futures
This free report explores five ways that fungi innovation is impacting how we heal, build resilience, live, eat and die, while addressing the UN SDGs. Enjoy!
short film
Innovation
Photojournalism platform BAMM Raw explores how Sporesight invites an innovative approach to insight and foresight, by working with fungal intelligence as a model for strategy.
FREE REPORT
Think like Nature
What would happen, if we think more like nature? This inquiry co-created with Catanna Studio outlines three tourism shifts, offering brands an invitation to embed nature-centric thinking into strategy, products and experiences.
Talks & interviews (selection)
UPCOMING: RCA Design Futures Symposium 2026: Untangling Tomorrows: reserve a spot
UPCOMING: Psychedelic Design Awards Judge + Speaker - Nov 2026: enter here
UPCOMING: World Mushroom Forum - Growing the Decomposition Economy: tickets here
JUST GONE: Future Days 2026 in Copenhagen official side event: Growing the Decomposition Economy
JUST GONE: Better Questions with Firetail - July 2026
EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk: Fungi as your Futurist - Oct 2025
UAL London College of Communication: MA Design for Art Direction - May 2026
UAL London College of Communication: MA Design Management - May 2026
Decomposition Day - UK May 2026
Good Innovation “Think Like Fungi” - UK Jan 2026
South London Mushroom Club: Fungi as your Futurist - Oct 2025
L*Osmonauta - Decompose to Recompose - 2026 edition
Spore Journeys podcast - Compost the Status Quo - Oct 2025
Culture Connectors podcast - A Love Letter to Mushrooms - Apr 2025
Futures Friends London - 3 Fungi Futures - July 2025
BAMM Raw - Innovation short film - 2025
BUNS - Embedding fungal intelligence in business ITALIAN / ENGLISH
The Independent Consultants Group: Mushrooms have a branding issue, with Kim Townend - May 2024
The Mix London: Mushrooms have a branding issue, with Kim Townend - 2024
Research Live - Off the beaten path: Leaving the agency world - Mar 2024
Research Live - A spore for success: My life researching mushrooms - Jun 2024
The Bento Club podcast - How mushrooms can inspire better insights in global research - Jan 2024