About

An invitation to co-create.

Studio Ikigai is a systems-thinking studio dedicated to redesigning how organisations and communities understand and act on climate. We approach every climate challenge as a system, not a single message.

Hello
We can't change the climate by changing minds alone. We need to redesign the systems that shape behaviour, starting now.
Renuka S Kulkarni Founder & Creative Director

Renuka founded Studio Ikigai to bring systems thinking into the centre of climate communication. The studio works with changemakers, startups, NGOs, and innovators, translating systems insights into narrative, strategy, and behaviour change.

Most climate communication treats it as an awareness problem when it's actually a design problem. The studio's work is built on the belief that by understanding system incentives, defaults, and structures, not just values, we can design climate action that feels not just urgent, but inevitable.

Why this · Why now

Climate change is no longer a distant threat: it's a systems challenge affecting all of us.

Yet, most climate communication treats it as an awareness problem when it's actually a design problem. We believe that by understanding system incentives, defaults, and structures, not just values, we can design climate action that feels not just urgent, but inevitable.

Value · 01

Honesty

We're not interested in greenwashing. We design with intellectual honesty about what systems are and what they ask of us.

Value · 02

Clarity

Climate narratives are scattered, inaccessible, or overly technical. We translate complexity without losing precision.

Value · 03

Impact

Behaviour change happens through redesigned incentives, not awareness campaigns. We design for what shifts behaviour.

Why You

We're looking to co-build this with experts and advisors who understand:

  • Climate change is fundamentally a systems problem, not just a communication one.
  • Behaviour change happens through redesigned incentives, not awareness campaigns.
  • The most effective climate communication explains what systems need to shift, and why.

Let's design for systems change. Let's show what's actually possible.

From a distance, the climate crisis seems inevitable. Up close, it's built on the systems we designed.

Studio Ikigai