A freelancer collective for better futures work, business with purpose.
At youngk, Agency³ has three meanings: an agency of more than 20 freelancers, the capacity to act that images of the future create, and the right team for every project. It rests on the 3K: Kompetenz (competence) from science, Konstruktion (construction) from futures studies, Kommunikation (communication) from design futuring. Co-founded by Jonas Drechsel.
Because futures don't happen by chance:
shape them, or follow other people's images.
As of October 2026
Methods are tools. What counts is stance, impact and strategic clarity. Freelancers think across disciplines, try things out and keep the whole in view. And working together in the collective should be fun.
youngk leads organisations onto paths beyond common thinking models so that sustainable change becomes possible. Working with us, you experience futures as something you can shape and take that experience into action.
For organisations whose task needs several skill sets and a team. You choose from standardised modules or we design a project around your needs. It all begins with the Expeditionsstart (expedition start).
In the collective: Jonas Drechsel and Georg Jänchen as co-initiators, Celeste Meisel, Felix Tegeler, Isabella Hermann and Ouassima Laabich. Plus external accomplices such as Johannes Kleske, Simone Engelhardt, Markus Kreutzer, Pauline Alt and Vitalia Safronova.
Every project draws on a shared knowledge base and grows out of what clients need. Pay follows a solidarity model. Roles are clearly defined. Who fills them changes from project to project. We care about paying fairly, keeping processes open and sharing knowledge. Today we are a GbR (partnership) and want to become a cooperative.
The youngk principle connects three fields. Kompetenz (competence) comes from science, such as futures literacy, systems thinking and dealing with (not) knowing. Konstruktion (construction) comes from futures studies, with methods such as scenarios, horizon scanning and the futures wheel. Kommunikation (communication) comes from design futuring and ranges from reports and prototypes to workshops and impact analyses. The knowledge base holds 52 modules for this (16, 20 and 16) and six project recipes.
Format
A multi-stage process including worldbuilding, with the CustomGPT scenario tool.
What you get
Scenarios ready for use as a shared basis for strategic decisions. Reference: the GDV scenario report, three scenarios for AI-supported insurance sales.
Scenario2Agency is the core. On top come six dream projects the collective defined together: vision into politics, academy, conference, communication, speaker and Futurists in Residence. They can be combined as modules, and each has a one-pager on youngk.de.
All formats on youngk.de ↗What some people dream of.
Absurd-utopian. Which places of longing can we imagine, beyond the probable?
What can be discussed.
Plausible-alternative. Which developments count as realistic once the view widens?
What everyone thinks is coming.
Projected-official. The future elephant in the room that rarely gets talked about.
The future cannot be known. The workshop makes your images of the future visible and open to discussion, so hidden assumptions become negotiable. Most recently run for the foundation of a well-known NGO, the Illustratoren Organisation, Velptec and HS Kempten.
Makes a group's images of the future visible and open to discussion: projected-official, plausible, absurd-utopian. Hidden assumptions become negotiable.
30 minutes of input, 90 minutes of group work, 60 minutes of reflection. Online or in person.
Develop scenarios and translate them into decisions. AI varies them systematically, people steer the substance and check the quality.
Offered by youngk as Scenario2Agency, including worldbuilding.
Scenario lead, facilitation, concept, 2025. Workshop on the future of sales
Three Perspectives, a sharper position on AI
Three Perspectives workshop, 2025
Introductory workshop on futures thinking, with Nina Valkanova, 2026
Concept by Jonas, delivered by Georg Jänchen
Lecturer
We show you, using your own question, what is possible, from the CustomGPT scenario tool to worldbuilding.
Request an introduction ↗kollektiv@youngk.de
