The new frontier is weird and inward, where today’s explorers venture into the strange and unfamiliar, digging deep into our planet’s limits to discover new ways of thriving.

Pascal Wicht

• 30 years of international and multicultural experience
• 15 years experience running discovery research projects
• Award-winning creative director background
• Helping organizations make sense of low carbon, safe and just futures

The following categories describe the strategic design spectrum and the key design pathways in which I intervene. This is a collection of the most common types of requests I’ve been entrusted with since the inception of the consultancy.

I founded Whispers and Giants on the idea that these challenges require a strategic design approach. My interventions focus on exploring, making sense, and understanding problems, guiding innovators with a clear orientation towards discovery and imagination.

Discovery research

You need to stimulate and inspire your R&D and innovation teams with the exploration and identification of new tracks and opportunity spaces.

Futurist in Residence

You need to drive meaningful internal change with a future-oriented residence putting co-creation at the heart of your organization.

Reinvention

You need to start thinking about what reinvention means for you, and produce tracks to imagine new future realities.

Anticipation

You need to anticipate major societal trends in the next 5 to 10 years or more to map out risks and opportunities.

Innovation

You need help to create and manage an innovation or research process to deliver inspiring results.

Social innovation

You need guidance to better understand the complex problems affecting specific user groups or beneficiaries in order to co-create solutions with them.

Ethnographic insights

You need to understand the problems affecting a specific user group and need help to understand how to approach and co-create solutions with them.

Creative Direction

You need help to lead a creative process that combines curiosity, imagination and creativity from defining briefs to production.

Visioning and narrative

You need to collaboratively craft a meaningful vision and mission to drive change and alignment.

Conferences, panels, moderation, facilitation

You need someone to lead your event, retreat or workshop and inspire your audience with storytelling, insights and orientation towards the future.

Strategic design coaching

You need guidance to level up your practice of strategic design and to approach more complex problems.