Huone 2050

• Quick look

  ✹ Project: Futures prototyping a sustainable vision for Finland 2050

  ✦ Methods: Collective imagination, experiential futures

  ✦ Client: Kestavyyspaneeli (The Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development)

  ✦ Collaborators: Andrea Gilly, Zeynep Falay von Flittner, Anni Leppänen, Iines Reinikainen, Kirsi Hakio (all through the Falay Transition Design Collective); Demos Helsinki

  ✦ Year: 2025

• About the project

  What if we could step inside a sustainable future, and feel what everyday life might be like in 2050?

  Huone 2050 (Room 2050) is an immersive installation co-created between Falay Transition Design and the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development. It invites the public into a future home built on the foundations of a just transition. The project explores how tangible, sensory experiences can help people critically and emotionally engage with complex futures beyond dystopias or techno-utopias.

  Through tactile and physical artefacts, audience members are invited to interact with the sustainable future, with themes including True Cost Economy, Planetary Citizenship and a Sustainability awakening.

  Find out more about the project here.

• Process

  Developed through a three-part process, the project began with scenario research by Demos Helsinki, outlining three transformative pathways for Finland. Falay Transition Design led a participatory transition mapping and storytelling process, including an interactive digital journey with national stakeholders. The work culminated in a multi-sensory installation at Helsinki’s Oodi Library, where over 250 visitors explored future life through sound, objects, and atmosphere, and left behind reflections to shape the next iteration via postcards from the future.