Stefaan Vandist
Provotying
Developing and realizing sustainable visions of the future
AI-BOOK I 2024 I Original language AI-Book: Dutch
€ 27.99
Winner of the 2025 Management Book of the Year Award in the Netherlands!
How do you create a unifying future narrative for your organization?
In an era of growing awareness around biodiversity, climate change, and new frameworks like ESG, sustainability is transforming our society. Stefaan Vandist draws inspiration from groundbreaking examples at the intersection of science, technology, and creativity. His mission? To encourage organizations to engage in provotyping: gently crafting future visions and making them visible and tangible in order to spark deep engagement.
Discover how this approach fosters impactful innovation, and turn this book into your toolbox for building a more sustainable and connected future.
“This is the kind of book you start missing before you’ve even finished reading it. Provotyping reads like a chain of thrilling adventure stories, rebellious tales, and inspiring parables, each one urging you to ask the Big Question of Innovation: ‘What if?’
It’s a push forward for every changemaker. The road from idea to impact is long and full of obstacles, but more importantly, Provotyping awakens the changemaker within. Humanity is always evolving, but a book like Provotyping helps steer that evolution. It inspires hope, and calls us to action.” — Arash Aazami
“A book that manages to combine urgency with hope, vision with practical action, and theory with tangible real-world practice.” — From the jury report
About the author
Stefaan Vandist spent the first ten years of his career as a brand strategist at the internationally acclaimed advertising agency Duval Guillaume. In the decade that followed, he shifted his focus to trend analysis, future exploration, and innovation strategies related to sustainability challenges. As managing partner at switchrs, he gives lectures and masterclasses and facilitates processes that guide organizations in their transition from a linear to a circular economy.