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:
– Affordable housing
– Economic development
– Community engagement
– Private & Public sector collaborations
Innovation system design | Regional training programs | City coaching and facilitation
Designing for Emergent Living
All my work explores new forms of emergent living: how nations design their education systems, or how cities create capacity for innovation.
I work both at the strategic and practical levels: shaping how organisations approach change, and working hands-on with teams and collaborators to design and facilitate the processes that make change happen.
Whether it’s national education systems or city innovation programs, I create systems that are adaptive, collaborative, and grounded in human experience. Frameworks that can evolve as conditions change. Solutions that work with emergence rather than trying to control it.
Emergent Living reflects this practice: strategic design that works with the opportunities and tensions always unfolding in complex systems.
