Álvaro Aranda Muñoz

Thoughts

Where I gather
some of my thoughts.

Notes on futures, design, engineering and stories.

  1. Forty circles in coloured groups walking on a rehearsal floor seen from above
    · 15 min read

    Choreographies of Complexity

    Two workshop exercises translated into walking circles. One comes from Dejan, by way of dance and improvisational theatre. The other comes from Toby Lowe, a professor of public management. Each simulation follows a simple score, and the pattern that appears on the floor is not decided by anyone in particular.

    • Futures
    • Design
  2. The Swedish edition of the handbook open on a book stand at chapter 3
    · 2 min read

    A handbook for leading together

    On 4 June 2026 we launched Transforming how we lead together, a handbook for organisations that want to move from hierarchies towards co-creation.

    • Design
    • Stories
  3. Drawing of two glowing glass boxes on a dark stage between two large red hearts, with an audience in silhouette
    · 3 min read

    Facilitating futures

    In 2022, I facilitated five workshops where people who train healthcare workers imagined their organisation in 2050. Here is what I learned from holding that space.

    • Futures
    • Design
  4. The Karakuri IoT toolkit on a table: standing paper tokens in four colours around a paper canvas, small sensor blocks and a tablet
    · 7 min read

    Karakuri IoT: paper tokens for factory ideas

    I was asked to build a sensor kit that factory workers could use without programming. I ended up building something made mostly of paper, and it started my PhD.

    • Design
    • Engineering
  5. Illustration of a man in a red shirt pressing a small sensor button in the air, over a dark blue background of red squares
    · 4 min read

    Thinking with and through technology

    My PhD ended in a framework: four steps for preparing workshops where people who are not experts in technology imagine how it could make their work better.

    • Design
    • Engineering
  6. Sketch of an operator touching floating panels of information in front of an industrial boiler
    · 6 min read

    HoloGraphic: bringing the control room to the machines

    In 2017 I explored how a HoloLens could carry the information of a control room out to the factory floor, and place it on top of the machines it belongs to.

    • Design
    • Engineering