Design — Imaginal Being

Imaginal Being is a design practice for the artful enablement of the digital, the biological, and the physical.

Imaginal Being, founded by Kendra Dalley, aims to consider nature as a co-client, enacting outcomes as an “interaction” inside of an ecosystem.

Services

We apply immersive research, hands-on experimentation, and high-fidelity design to three platforms we see guiding our evolution from nature-inspired design to nature-empowered design.

Bringing to market is great, but we want to take the long view and implement and impact people’s value systems, getting them to listen very carefully to what nature is asking of us right now.
Relationship: Nature & Culture
Potential Expressions: creative brand strategy, content development, editorial direction, copywriting + voice
We research, embody, and design new ecosystems — relationships of interactions attuning to the deep patterns of nature while engaging in the tension between physical and environmental constraints.
Relationship: Ecology & Technology
Potential Expressions: product design, experiential design, user experience, production/project management
(WIP) Through experimenting with bacteria-printed textiles, biopolymers, and other matter, we explore the potential for closed-loop systems of (re)use, designing for decay, and the interactions and relationships with matter.
Relationship: Grown & Made
Potential Expressions: speculative research, workshops & events, etc.

Selected projects

Project

We are industry-agnostic, collaborating with visionary initiatives leading their industry to meet or exceed the level of ecosystem services provided.

Client

Role

Accessible clean energy for every community

Solstice Power Technologies

Product Design & Strategy

Product suite design for solar farm x community relationships for Solstice, was founded on the belief that every American household should have access to affordable renewable energy. We organize, educate, and innovate to make solar accessible.

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Reawakening living connections

ION * Biome

Email Design & Strategy

Wellness support — as nature intended. Translational storytelling and email design for ION* Biome, a consumer product line which taps into nature’s greater intelligence, empowering our cells to do what they do best: regenerate and repair.

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Empowering health outcomes through personalized data

Arivale

Product Design & Engineering

Product and app design for Arivale, a new type of healthcare system that combines cutting-edge genetic analysis, microbiome & blood assays, personalized coaching all with the goal of improving individuals’ health.

Accelerating the adoption of regenerative agriculture

Farmers Footprint

Email Design & Strategy

Community activation through storytelling and email design. Farmer's Footprint, is a coalition of farmers, educators, doctors, scientists, business leaders aiming to expose the human and environmental impacts of chemical farming and offering a path forward through regenerative agricultural practices.