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Building your Future


We’re building an African-inspired community of designers, thinkers, and doers to help you transition to a brighter future.




At AEDI, we believe in the power of design and science to help us create a sustainable future. We bookend futures with future-proofing, which means we use systems thinking as our lens for making sense of our current state of the world to help identify problems and discover solutions.

We use these reference points as our learning glass:

-Systems Thinking: A method for exploring complex issues by breaking them down into their constituent parts and understanding how they interact within an environment.

-Design Thinking: A human-centered approach to innovation that emphasizes collaboration, empathy and iteration.




We're all about designing and implementing sustainable initiatives that help communities become more resilient.

We use scientific analysis and design research to evaluate environments and human geography across landscapes to understand cause and effect within local contexts. We identify signals that help us insert sustainable initiatives and technologies for advancing resilience within complex adaptive systems across industrial-rural-urban landscapes. At AEDI, we use scientific information and indigenous knowledge systems to help build adaptive capacities and improve relationships between people and nature.

We're committed to making material changes that impact a world that remains technologically driven, spatially innovative, resourceful, and grounded through life on land.

AEDI is a company that helps organizations make material changes that impact the world.

We integrate project insights with a transition perspective to be employed by your organization. We use participatory planning and envisioning tools to assess strengths and build bridges into a new world. Our approach enables you to analyze multiple scenarios in a changing environment. Lessons for potential pathways will help your group position itself, manage risk, and shine a light on the future.

Our approach is participatory and collaborative, because it's not just about what works for us—it's about what works for all of us. We believe that all voices matter, so we're committed to working together with our clients on their journey toward success.


 


AEDI builds a sense of a complex world for people and nature by providing social and environmental context. Advancing sustainable development, we uncover patterns in our daily lives, identify markers on the landscape and anticipate changes to our environment that help us transition into a new environment.

We believe that the best way to bring about positive change is through understanding—and we want to help you understand your world better.






TRANSITION DESIGN 
AEDI STUDIO        BERLIN, JOHANNESBURG.