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EMPOWERING
RADICAL RURAL FUTURES

Depopulation, climate adaptation, a slow-fading high street, net zero, changes to farming and  fishing. Rural places are absorbing more change, faster, than almost anywhere else. And they are usually the last people consulted about what happens next. We think that's backwards.

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Creative rural strategy for places in transition

Rural places are on the frontlines of big change, from climate adaptation and biodiversity loss to shifting economies, depopulation, and the transition to net zero. Rural places aren't a problem to be managed from a distance, they're where some of the most inventive answers are already being tried, tested and lived. Our job is to back that.

What we actually help with

Finding out what people already know

Sensory, story-led research that surfaces what residents actually think and feel — not just what they'll write on a feedback form.

Building plans people will fight for

Housing, food, transport, energy, local economy, strategies shaped with the people who'll live inside them, not handed down to them.

Testing small before going big

Imaginative, real-world prototypes for care, culture, transport and shared ownership, built on what a place actually needs, not a template built somewhere else entirely.

Changing the story rural places get told about themselves

Writing, publishing and advocacy that pushes back on the idea that rural means "left behind."

Structured for impact

Community engagement for rural futures

We work with rural places across Scotland and beyond, supporting locally-led action through:

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Regenerative Place Strategies

Co-creating practical, community-shaped plans across themes like housing, food, mobility, energy and local economy.

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Creative Engagement & Research

Designing participatory, sensory and story-led processes that surface lived experience and open new possibilities.

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Narrative Change

Using storytelling, advocacy and publishing to reframe what rural life is and what it could be.

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Who we work with

Local authorities & regional agencies

Community organisations & grassroots groups

Cultural & environmental orgs

Universities & researchers

Artists, designers & local practitioners

Radical thinkers and change makers

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DISCOVER HOW WE WORK

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Interested in collaborating on a Rural Futures project?
Featured project

Radical rural, made tangible.

> Commission us to lead or co-design a place-based project
> Partner on funding bids or rural research
> Bring us in to run community workshops or creative consultations
> Invite us to speak, facilitate or support rural strategy work
> We're based in the Scottish Highlands and work nationally across the UK.

See the work
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Accessible, creative, and always rooted in place. We created Coastodians in the Solway Firth