Strategic design leadership for education systems and city innovation
Emergent Living is a specialist design practice led by Jeremiah Tesolin. I work with governments, UN agencies, and cities to design the systems, methodologies, and frameworks that drive change at national and city scale.
Recent work includes strategic design for UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub and city innovation capacity programs across the Nordics, Middle East, Oceania, and North America.
Two core specialisations:
National Education Systems Design
Strategic Design Lead for UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub. Integrating design methods across digital education initiatives and making complex frameworks actionable through toolkits, design journeys, and collaborative processes.
Digital education strategy | Learning innovation frameworks | Methodology development
City Innovation Capabilities
Designing and facilitating innovation capacity programs for cities across the Nordics, Middle East, Oceania, and North America. I work with city teams to build internal innovation systems, design training programs, and coach implementation for complex challenges such as:
– Employment and economic development
– Affordable housing
– Community engagement
– Private & Public sector collaborations
Innovation system design | Regional training programs | City coaching and facilitation
Designing for Emergent Living
All my work returns to the same question: how do complex living systems such as education systems, cities, and organisations create the conditions for change, rather than just planning for it?
I work at both the strategic and practical levels: shaping how organisations approach transformation, and working hands-on with teams to design and facilitate the processes that make it happen. What connects these is a belief that the best frameworks create space for what needs to emerge.
I’m developing this thinking through the work, and through writing about what I notice. It’s not a finished theory. It’s a practice and evolves with every project.
