We walk with pioneers to help them find greater clarity, tell authentic stories, and communicate with beauty, depth, and possibility.
Sympoiesis is an experience & design lab co-creating regenerative futures.
We live in the age of consequences. Modernity’s imposed separation from the wild and the living, its obsession with ascent, linear progress, and flatline experience, have amounted to symptoms like anthropogenic climate change, species extinction, and collapsing ecosystems.
Sympoiesis, which means worlding-with, isn’t our solution but one response, among many, to the earth’s predicament. It is our humble contribution to re-member the beauty and depth of life. To re-embrace our innate wilderness and intuition as part of the earth’s living metabolism. To learn and unlearn together as we build shared worlds in the ruins of a collapsing world order.
When the stories we once believed in unravel and lose their meaning, people’s souls will shout and sing ever louder. More people will hear the call to pursue their life’s path, overcome inner blocks, and express who they truly are; to come together in protest and in dreaming; to build their business or collective on life-affirming values, as apprentices of the Earth’s deep time wisdom.
We support edgewalkers and pioneers who’ve heard the call.
Our clients include individuals and organizations working in the fields of climate psychology, climate resilience and deep adaptation, community building, land-based regeneration, and biodiversity monitoring.
We write stories that speak truth and create visuals that resonate deeply.
We design websites that are intuitive and engaging.
We develop posters and promotional materials that are alive and speak to people’s souls and imagination.
We host transformative experiences that connect participants to their authentic self, their soul, and the more-than-human world.
We see our role as communication designers to bestow beauty, seed new ideas, inspire value-aligned action, and co-create communities of mutual care.
Our team
Sympoiesis is founded by Rūta Žemčugovaitė and Niels Devisscher. We are supported by a growing network of trusted freelancers uniquely gifted to bring your generative vision to life.
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Niels is the co-founder of Sympoiesis and Communications Lead. He works as a freelance communications strategist, graphic designer, writer, and imagination facilitator. Niels taught himself urban and fine art landscape photography and has since won numerous awards in prestigious competitions, including bronze in The Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3).
In his art and commercial work, Niels experiments with both analog and digital collage techniques and explores diverse themes, including mythology, aliveness, and human and more-than-human co-habitation.
He holds a BSc in International Entrepreneurship from the Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences, Belgium, and completed courses in Regenerative Development (Regenesis Institute) Prosocial (Prosocial World), Investing in Systems Change (Forum for the Future), Design Thinking (University of Virginia), Human-Earth Connection SRI (Mind and Life Institute), Kinship and An Ecology of Love with Dr. Andreas Weber (Advaya), Flourish! Climate Learning Journey (One Resilient Earth), Core Principles of Graphic Design (MICA).
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Ruta is a co-founder of Sympoiesis and Regenerative Research Lead.
She is a freelance writer, facilitator, and multi-disciplinary artist, based in Berlin.
She holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Stirling and has trained with the leading trauma healing experts in Costa Rica. She has facilitated trauma-informed workshops in the US, Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany. She has extensive experience working with Holochain, AI, and humane technology startups.
Ruta explores regenerative design practices and works with systems change facilitation through the lens of more-than-human perspectives.
Ruta researches and designs alongside mycelium as a co-creative agent for regenerative futures.
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Neirin is a Welsh-Australian animation director, illustrator and motion designer based in Berlin.
He collaborates with Sympoiesis as a creative director, animator, and motion designer, breathing life into websites, visual designs, and storytelling.
Focusing primarily on 2D animation, Neirin’s style combines mixed-media animation techniques including cell animation, painted frame-by-frame, motion-collage and stop motion animation to create colourful, imaginative worlds that burst out of the frame.
His work has been described as “fluid, with a focus on morphological shapes and characters that seamlessly blend into one another, defying the separateness we often impose between ourselves and the rest of the world.” It is often inspired by indigenous Australian dreamtime imagery, Jungian symbology, and animism.
Having studied BA (Hons) Filmmaking at the Manchester School of Arts, his background in visual storytelling continues to inform his practice. As well as numerous explainer videos and commercial work for clients such as The Atlantic, Vice Magazine, Nike, and Nordeus, Neirin has created music videos for renowned musician Pixies, Boney M, Weyes Blood, and Dezydery to name a few.
He is currently focused on collaborations with clients that foster good ecological practices or a focus on regenerative business, as well as developing his own fictional short animated films.
Contact us.
Do you need support in bringing your creative ideas to life, or simply have a question? Contact us — no strings attached. Our team will get back to you within 24 hours.