We hope to shed more light on what we're all about with some FAQs. If you have other questions about FutureKind and our products, please feel free to contact us here.

 

 

How do you select your products?

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We engage organisations that incorporate social outcomes at the heart of their operations. They are organisations typically involved in developing marginalised communities through trade, by creating long term partnerships with producers based on diaglogue, transparency and respect. 

 

From our partner organisations, we showcase products that are fresh and innovative for a design-savvy audience. Opting for a 'less is more' philosophy, we choose designs based on everyday simplicity. Gravitating towards products which are useful, uncomplicated and timeless, we are specific in our curation simply to demonstrate that design can look good, as well as do good.

 

While we're mindful of contemporary trends, we avoid a design-for-obscalescence approach. By encouraging environmentally conscious design, through as inclusion of product recycling, upcycling, multifunctionality, cradle-to-cradle product life-cycles, and design for disassembly, we hope to foster a responsible design practice. 

 

Simply put, our product curation is based on accessibility, everyday simplicity, and socially responsible design. 

 

 

How do FutureKind products help people?

 

Inherently, our products consider the aspects of fair wages, sustainable trade development, and social outcomes.

 

As you'll learn from our product backgrounds, our organisations usually participate in various forms of capacity building. This can involve fostering traditional and unique craft-forms while providing a stable income base, and other times to provide new skills training. Trade development is also combined with other community building services where such needs are identified, such as assisting with healthcare services, providing health and financial education for adults, and schooling for children. As a direct result of these developmental goals, our producers receive a fair, or 'living' wage for their work, that is, a wage that allows a worker to provide for him or herself and family; to buy essential medicines, send children to school and to save for the future.

 

 

Where do FutureKind profits go?

 

FutureKind reinvests profits back to fulfilling our vision of building a collaborative platform between NGOs, designers and producer groups to bring accessible, everyday ethical products to a mainstream market. 

 

We currently run on the strength of volunteers, but we hope to grow and make FutureKind sustainable for the long run to make our dream for tomorrow a reality. 

 

 

Who designs these products?

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Many of our products are designed through collaborations with existing producer groups by designers in Europe and the U.S.

 

What we hope to develop in the future is our own products in collaborations with local designers in country and around the world. 

 

If you have any questions we've missed, please get in touch with us here.