Future Living Studio (FLS) is a design studio now based in Hanoi working within the EU-funded, SPIN Project to improve Vietnam's global participation in sustainable product design. We work to integrate Vietnamese, European and North American design through a cross-cultural collaborative 6-month project that tackles the growing issues of sustainability.

The project joins three Vietnamese designers, three Western designers and three local manufacturers to collaboratively produce environmentally and socially conscious products. The project works to bridge the gap between design and production- involving the designers and producers in every step of the process from extensive user research to co-design with factory workers.
 
The project was conceived as a lab- where each designer, with their individual expertise ranging from advertising to user experience to handicrafts, share and explore the possibilities of sustainable design in Vietnam. The project intends to shed light on the importance of holistic and socially consciously designed products in the wake of rapid development.

This studio is jointly funded by the SPIN project, part of the EU SWITCH-Asia project and the Department of Design Engineering at the TU Delft. SPIN aims to build capacity in this region by providing the knowledge and expertise for this transition towards a more economically and sustainably viable future. The SPIN project works with 500 SMEs to increase their capacity for sustainable product innovation.