Core Principles:

  1. Radical Imagination
    We don’t just extend what already exists. We invite people to imagine entirely different futures — rooted in justice, creativity and care.

  2. Sensory & Experiential
    Feeldwork uses tools that speak to the body, senses and emotions. Objects, materials, memories and space become ways of thinking.

  3. Place-Based & Relational
    We work with what’s already there: the relationships, landscapes, tensions and textures of a place. Every process is tailored, never templated.

  4. Community-led & Co-Created
    Feeldwork makes space for people to lead, co-own and shape the process. It’s not about extracting insights — it’s about building shared futures.

  5. Joyful & Useful
    Futures work should spark creativity and connection — but also support real decisions and strategic outcomes.

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A man standing on a beach in Stranraer during the Place Planning near water, holding a plastic bag of rocks in one hand and raising his other fist in the air, shouting excitedly with an overcast sky in the background.

Feeldwork (Feeldwork © 2022 by Gabby Morris is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0) is our signature framework for designing futures you can feel through Feeling-provoking Design. Developed by our founder Gabby Morris, it's a method rooted in sensory experience, emotional intelligence and creative co-creation designed to help people explore future possibilities and take steps towards them.

This isn’t your standard toolkit. Feeldwork is used to create immersive, story-rich, and place-based processes that leave people changed because they don’t just think about the future, they experience it.

Whether shaping local strategy, climate action or cultural planning, the Feeldwork Framework helps communities, organisations and teams work together in ways that are playful, powerful and deeply participatory.

A Venn diagram with four overlapping ovals. The central section is labeled "Feeling-Probing Futures." The top-left oval is labeled "Surface Felt Knowledge." The top-right oval is labeled "Design Immersive Futures." The bottom-left oval is labeled "Use Play as a Tool for Depth." The bottom-right oval is labeled "Provoke Action through Experience."

Introduction to Feeldwork

Traditional approaches to futures work often stay in the head, charts, trends, models, and forecasts. But change doesn’t happen just because we know something. It happens when we feel its relevance.

That’s why we use design, storytelling, sensory materials, speculative artefacts, and immersive workshops to create experiences that connect emotionally as well as intellectually.

Why Feeling Matters?

Venn diagram showing two circles labeled Knowledge and Emotion, with the overlapping area labeled Motivated Change.

What it includes:

Design methods for creating immersive experiences

  • Tools for participatory storytelling, mapping and prototyping

  • Frameworks for holding space, building trust and navigating uncertainty

  • Formats for strategy, policy and place-based transformation

Feeldwork has shaped place plans, ecological visions, arts strategies and community-led processes across Scotland and beyond. It’s designed to scale up or down, from rural fieldwork to national consultation, always grounded in context.

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A group of people, including children and adults, walking on a wooden boardwalk through a marshland with tall grass and water on either side, under a partly cloudy sky.

Why it is needed:

Thinking isn’t enough we need to feel the future.

  1. Data alone doesn’t tell the whole story.

  2. We live through feelings, memories, senses and values — so why leave them out of decision-making?

  3. The world is sensory — the future will be too.

  4. Experiences help us quickly sense what kind of future we want (or don’t want).

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Why It Works

Because it’s not just theoretical. It’s lived.
People leave our sessions feeling more connected, more curious, and more capable of navigating change — not just because they thought differently, but because they felt something shift.

A Creative Commons Method
Feeldwork © 2022 by Gabby Morris is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. That means others can use, remix and adapt the method non-commercially — as long as they credit Gabby and link back to Feeldwork Futures.