Knowledge

The thinking behind the tools, methods, and techniques that constitute the Facilitated Emergence® and Narrative Architecture™ methodologies, and systems stories from the wild.

The Biodiverse Futures Cone (2025) Y'ael Vorster [Digital Artwork]

Designing in Living Systems: The Knowledge Ecology of Facilitated Emergence®

We live in a time when the systems that sustain life on Earth are shifting faster than our institutions, economies, and imaginations can adapt. Climate instability, biodiversity collapse, digital disruption, and social fragmentation are no longer separate crises — they are symptoms of a deeper systems problem: a way of thinking that isolates what is, in reality, interconnected.

Y'ael Vorster

Nov 312 min read

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Forests, Futures, and the Quiet Architecture of Transition: Signals from the political and legal domain of the emerging bioeconomy

I remember the first time I walked a section of old-growth forest between plantations marked for audit—an early career project I hadn’t expected to change me in the way it did. The light filtered through the canopy in long, slanted pillars, illuminating dust motes and insect wings and the slow exhale of soil. To the untrained eye, it was simply a forest. But the deeper I moved into the understorey, the more the forest revealed itself as something else entirely...

Y'ael Vorster

Nov 148 min read

FACILITATED EMERGENCE®

FOR BIODIVERSE FUTURES

Knowledge

The thinking behind the tools, methods, and techniques that constitute the Facilitated Emergence® and Narrative Architecture™ methodologies, and systems stories from the wild.

Designing in Living Systems: The Knowledge Ecology of Facilitated Emergence®

Spotlight

Forests, Futures, and the Quiet Architecture of Transition: Signals from the political and legal domain of the emerging bioeconomy