The Time Travel Agency operates under the cover of a speculative design and innovation studio in the Nordics, the Americas, and online.

The Time Travel Agency is a process to design innovation and to imagine differently.

Our studio is a response to hopelessness about the future. We aim to reach futures in which people possess agency and feel happy to be alive.

For organizations that need to survive, we help them to adapt.

Our specialization is in combining immersive experiments, world-building, prototyping, participatory experiences, and emerging tech.

We offer methods for handling change, and to experience the mechanisms of uncertainty, prototyping, and collaboration. A time travel is an imaginative and playful innovation process that introduces people to new scenarios in which to practice their Futures Literacy (FL) skill before they jump into action plans.

We aim to challenge, invent, and transform.

We challenge a lack of optimistic futures, of vision, of other worlds.
Then, we make those worlds to feel what it’s like to affect them.
(And work from the assumption that we are going to make it).

Working against a view that the future is singular and binary (i.e. utopic or dystopic), we elevate the work of our travelers, who sustain that the futures are plural; that they exist in a spectrum; and that possible, optimistic futures start by imagining them in safe, explorative, experimental spaces.

100% guarantee that you’ll invent a future or we give you your time back!

We are and have been supported by:

MIT Media Lab–Trope Tank
City of Helsingborg Sweden
BOOST HBG Sweden
ALMI Sweden
Vinnova Sweden
Danish Design Center
Nordic Culture Point
Helsinki Design Week
Holbaek School of Art
Talk Town Copenhagen
Gaming in California
Goethe-Institut Toronto

The Canada Council for the Arts
Columbia College Chicago
Fondazione Adolfo Pini
UKAI Canada
Mentoras Creativas
Mindpark Helsingborg
Reshaping Work Barcelona
Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Tipi / TOPIAK Bilbao
Musikcentrum Syd
ELO– Electronic Literature Organization
Experimental Realism

We are members of the Remake Learning Network, the European AI Alliance, Foresight Europe Network, and the Enterprise Europe Network.

Time travelers said it best!

"The purpose of an experience like this is to design 'IN' the future."
"It gave me a feeling of having a voice in the future."
"We realized that our prototype is not that far away from now; we broke down dogmatic and traditional thinking."
"An experience I’d define as playful-mind-eruption."
"If you can think it, try to build it!"