Emergent Living is about designing for what’s next.
Emergent Living is a specialist design practice focused on how we learn, how cities function, and how organisations create capacity for change.
“Emergent” reflects the opportunities and challenges constantly unfolding in complex systems. “Living” speaks to the systems and environments that shape how we work, learn, and organise together.
The practice works at both strategic and practical levels: integrating design methods into national education systems and city innovation programmes, creating frameworks that are adaptive and grounded in human experience.
About Jeremiah Tesolin:
I’m a strategic design leader specialising in education systems and city innovation. My background spans the private, public, and non-profit sectors. I’ve worked as Creative Director at Iittala, Brand Development Manager at Marimekko, and Art Director at Nokia, bringing a cross-sector perspective to institutional challenges.
Currently, I serve as Strategic Design Lead for UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub, integrating design methods across digital education initiatives. I’ve also worked as a City Innovation Coach with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, supporting city teams across multiple continents.
I work internationally across education, innovation, and city development, designing programmes and supporting teams to navigate complexity and shape better futures. My approach combines strategic vision with practical design work, creating systems that are adaptive and grounded in human experience.
Emergent collaborations:
Emergent Living works through a network of specialist collaborators. I partner with agencies, research organisations, and design practitioners to bring expanded capacity and domain expertise to complex projects.
The organisations featured here are key collaboration partners. Together, we demonstrate what becomes possible when different perspectives come together around shared purpose.
If you’re working towards meaningful change and see alignment with this approach, please get in touch.