DESIGN ETHOS

Invoking soft, earthen futures into being.

"Soft, Earthen Futures" is a design philosophy that awakens the life-affirming potential within us. It champions design process that is listening, intuitive, grounded in nature, and centered on the embodied human experience. Design that brings out the best of what humanity can become.

This approach reveals beauty in all its forms: the knowable and the mysterious, the inner and outer worlds, and the boundless creative wisdom we carry within ourselves.

We conceive, research, design, and produce in-house cultural projects including ritual gatherings, visionary publications, and frameworks for collective creative process.

As a curatorial firm, we shape experiences, ideas, and events with intention and editorial discernment.

As a production house, we tend the bones—-timelines, budgets, systems, marketing, people, funding, and delivery—-that bring vision into life-affirming form.

We exist to cultivate soft, earthen futures. To bear witness to what is emerging. And to midwife what wants to be created.

What We Do

( Who is we? → )

Project → Finom for Forma World, Concerts x Microcosms, 2019, Music Photojournalism.

TIME-BOUND / INSTALLATIONS / EVENTS

Temporal Imprints

Forma World (2019 - 2020)

Creative Devotion (2023 - 2024)

Poeisis Gathering

Culturecraft Symposium

LONG-TERM PROJECTS / ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS

Perennial Imprints

Storywork Studio

Kinspirit Press

Our Ecosystem

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Dajé Aloh

  • Daje is passionate about entrepreneurship, local culture, and supporting founders and organizations to create undeniable social impact with uncompromising soul.

    She brings presencing, depth, strategic storytelling, and regenerative design thinking to organizations and initiatives building new cultural futures.

    As founder of the Midwives Studio, Daje brings a decade of praxis in designing ritual gatherings, frameworks, and concepts for collective creative process.

    She specializes in listen-first, story-based approaches to concept development and design.

    She's worked with hundreds of creative entrepreneurs and mission-driven organizations to clarify and strengthen their impact through the power of story.

    Her work has included shaping policy and infrastructure at the local level for a more equitable creative economy and educating initiating entrepreneurs on the foundations of messaging and brand strategy.

    Trained in regenerative business design, emergent strategy facilitation, and eco-somatics, Daje helps organizations attune to what wants to emerge and translate that vision into grounded, actionable form.

  • Daje specializes in listen-first, story-based concept development that translates organizational vision into living, embodied stories.

    She works with individuals and teams to surface the patterns, narratives, and assumptions shaping their work, then designs frameworks and programs that align strategy with deeper purpose.

    Her approach draws from regenerative design thinking, emergent strategy facilitation, and years of experience building theories of change for cultural projects.

    She helps organizations move beyond conventional planning to develop living strategies rooted in their unique context, values, and the futures they're called to emerge.

Sarah Belpedio

  • Sarah brings strategic operations expertise and systems design to help organizations scale their impact.

    As a former Program Manager at Deloitte Consulting's Purpose and Social Impact team, she led large-scale organizational transformations and built infrastructure connecting institutions with purpose-driven work.

    Her background in operating model design, global DEI practice development, and climate action initiatives gives her a keen understanding of how to build resilient systems that serve mission-driven organizations. Sarah ensures the operational backbone is strong so cultural projects and transformative initiatives can thrive.

  • Sarah approaches organizational design with the precision and adaptability of a martial artist, building structures that are both strong and fluid.

    She excels at designing operating models and program infrastructure that can evolve with organizational needs while maintaining integrity.

    Her expertise in large-scale transformation work, strategic partnership development, and cross-cultural collaboration allows her to navigate complexity and create systems that support sustainable growth.

    She helps organizations build the operational capacity to meet their mission with consistency and excellence.