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OFFICE FOR CULTURAL STRATEGIES AND COLLABS

FROM CULTURE TO CONCEPT

The Lab is where cultural intelligence becomes something real. New products, retail concepts, brand worlds and collaboration formats built around the target groups and micro-communities your brand hasn't reached yet.

Not advertising.

Not campaigns.

Genuine cultural creation. 

Somewhere between a foresight consultancy and a design studio: ideas-led, culture-first, generation-aware.

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Culture first. 
Always.

We start where culture is moving, not where your category has always been. We identify the communities, identities and shifts that are reshaping demand and then we build something that belongs there.

The Lab doesn't produce advertising.

It produces real things: products that people want to own, concepts that change how a category works, business models built for the communities of tomorrow.

 

Our methodology of embracing culture is driven by cultural curator, Kristel Vanderlinden, marketing specialist, futurist and trend watcher with over 25 years experience in building cultural relevant brands.

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Kristel Vanderlinden, cultural strategist and founder of Futurekind, Belgium's first femtech futurist
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A taste of what we can build

These are teasers, the opening thought. The full concept, research, target group strategy and execution roadmap is what we develop together.

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WHAT IF THE FEMALE CYCLE BECAME AN IMMERSIVE RETAIL EXPERIENCE?

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WHAT IF WE CREATE AN INVESTMENT BANK FOR WOMEN ONLY? 

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WHAT IF WE CREATE A CHOCOLATE INFUSED WITH EXTRA'S FOR WOMEN IN MENOPAUSE?

Types of Ideas

Cultural Products & Services
New product and service concepts built around emerging cultural behaviours, identity shifts and micro-community needs, not demographics.

Brand Collaborations
Collaboration concepts between your brand and an unexpected cultural partner across fashion, sport, finance, gaming, art, health and beyond.

New Market Entries
Entry strategies into new markets, built around specific cultural shifts and the communities driving them. Who to reach, how, and why now.

Retail & Experience Concepts
New retail formats, experience designs and cultural activations that respond to how people actually live, gather and spend.

Storytelling Formats
Narrative frameworks and content formats that put your brand inside culture built around community identity, not broadcast messaging.

Female-Led Business Models
New business models designed specifically around female-driven cultural and economic shifts: femtech, female fandoms, health, wealth and identity.

Bring us your challenge. We'll build the concept.

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