Launching Lore, Change in Fashion and Rebuilding EU

The weekly look at three curious points of tension, plus optimistic ‘what if’ ideas for what to do moving forward.

Fashionable Change

Last week the H&M Foundation announced the Top 20 finalists for the Global Change Award 2026. Sustainability might have dropped-off the headline circuit lately, but the work is still being done: companies creating solutions including fungi breaking down textile waste, carbon-capturing dyes and story-driven digital product passport platform no less.

Moving forward: Brands and organisations solving the tricky problems in circularity are still early. What would it mean to be a collaborator now vs. a customer later?

Make it Make Sense

The launch of LORE last week is an interesting one signalling sense-making as a strategy vs. digital fragmentation, immersive and interactive experiences countering the sea of sameness and lore; the obsessive, fanatically-fun history of it all. Afterall, who doesn’t love a fun fact?

Moving forward: Every organisation has its Lore, how do internal teams and external customers navigate and sense-make yours? Is it fun and accessible or dry af? What kind of experiences could be designed to help fix fragmentation elsewhere?

Rebuilding Together

Two signals from Europe this week. Rebuild is a Copenhagen-based collective on a year-long sprint to redesign social platforms from scratch. And the European Commission just launched its first Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness aka policymaking that keeps future generations in mind. Hey look! It’s people working on broken systems not just complaining about them. Love to see it.

Moving forward: Everybody’s obsessed with the next quarter but these initiatives are planning for the next generation. What could intergenerational fairness look like in your world of work? And sign the rebuild letter.