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futuros km 0 is a local participatory foresight practice based in Sant Pere de Ribes, Barcelona. It helps small businesses, independent professionals, creative practitioners and local communities feel less overwhelmed by the simultaneous economic, environmental, political, social and technological shifts, and more capable of shaping what comes next.
Exploring uncertainty together, calmly, honestly, creatively.
Exploring uncertainty together, calmly, honestly, creatively.
Through facilitated workshops and strategic conversations, participants explore possible futures, understand the forces shaping their work and lives, and identify practical opportunities they can act on today.
Working together
Working together
We approach complex situations together, with honest conversations, shared observations, and small experiments, while keeping things local, small-scale, and practical.
A few examples:
• Helping small businesses read their surroundings differently and anticipate what might be coming.
• Supporting families to unpack what feels confusing or worrying about change.
• Workshops on real issues: heat, rising prices, school pressure, tourism, shifts at work.
• Activities for young people: exploring the world through possible futures.
During the activities
During the activities
1. We talk
1. We talk
We begin with a short conversation about what’s on your mind: from family routines to neighbourhood change to business uncertainty.
2. We explore
2. We explore
Together we make sense of what surrounds you: pressures, supports, rhythms, relationships, and shifts. We explore possible futures.
3. We try things out
3. We try things out
If you choose, you can join small group sessions where neighbours and businesses further explore ideas and test small steps together.
After the initial sessions, participants begin to:
After the initial sessions, participants begin to:
Adapt with curiosity
Act with more intention and less urgency, feel less reactive, and become more comfortable not having immediate or final answers.
Engage with uncertainty
Approach challenges with experimentation, combine ideas that wouldn’t normally meet, and feel permission to think differently.
See their own influence
Notice patterns, spot early signs of change, and discover they have more influence than they assumed.
Connect locally
Feel more at home in their communities and notice the resources and opportunities already around them.
Open by design
Open by design
Ideas get stronger when they’re shared: when people reflect together, learn from each other, and build on what already exists around them.
Being open by design means:
Being open by design means:
• Making our thinking visible
• Sharing what works, and what doesn’t
• Building on each other’s insights
• Strengthening local networks before reaching for external fixes
A few examples of how this shows in practice:
• Non-private group sessions and tools are documented and shared.
• You are welcome to join as a participant, or observe as a spectator.
• Instead of taking promotional photos during sessions, the focus is on documenting the futures we want to grow.
Core values
Core values
Supportive
Encouraging people to explore new ways of doing things together through shared learning and practical mutual support.
Ecosystemic
Seeing urban areas as interconnected systems, where businesses, schools, homes, and public spaces influence one another. Connecting people across sectors helps the whole community become more resilient.
Open
Making conversations, tools, and insights accessible. Participation is welcomed. Knowledge is shared. Collaboration is valued over competition.
Regenerative
Rethinking how we produce, consume, and relate locally. From low-kilometre supply chains to everyday routines, we explore ways of living and working that strengthen social, economic, and environmental wellbeing.
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