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Elsie Ralston

Elsie Ralston

A Peruvian strategist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has more than a decade of experience managing development and advocacy projects, and more than 8 years as a consultant in strategic design, digital product development, communications, fundraising, and public relations. She has worked with organizations in Latin America and Europe to advance initiatives in education, humanitarian response, financial inclusion, community empowerment, and, more recently, ethics and the responsible use of digital technologies. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Sur Global, where she designs educational experiences and consulting projects that build learning communities committed to responsible innovation. She is also the Editorial Director of UNTOLD.ink magazine, which is dedicated to exploring new narratives about the future, territory, and knowledge.
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Climate Crisis: Hope as a Strategy
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Climate Crisis: Hope as a Strategy

The climate crisis is already here. In the face of it, neither naive optimism nor pessimism will help. We need active hope: the understanding that the future depends on what we do today. Every action counts. Tomorrow cannot be predicted; it is built through organization, collective action, and pressure on those in power. Let’s not wait for a better future—let’s make it livable starting now. 📸: Susan Wilkinson, Oliver Kwembe, Leonardo Basso, Francesco Ungaro.

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The Care Economy
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The Care Economy

The system has always talked about productivity, growth, and efficiency. But it has rarely talked about who truly sustains life. Care is also infrastructure. Care is also the economy. Care is also the future. Invisible, feminized, and often unpaid, care sustains households, communities, and entire cities. Ignoring it is not only unfair—it’s unsustainable. 📸Photos: Sahaj Patel, Sushanta Rokka, The New York Public Library, BenjaminChambon.

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Community Innovation
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Community Innovation

There are other ways to think about the future: more local, more collaborative, and less dependent on systems that prioritize extraction over life. Community innovation shows that technology can also strengthen social ties, knowledge sharing, and help build collective autonomy. Photos: Andres Kishimoto

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Invisible Infrastructure
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Invisible Infrastructure

The infrastructures that sustain life—water, soil, networks, care—and why innovation must strengthen them.

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Learning from the South
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Learning from the South

What if innovation doesn’t come from where we’ve always been told it does? The Global South has been, and continues to be, a vibrant source of knowledge, adaptation, and innovation: agroecology, community governance, cultures of restoration. It’s not aid. It’s learning. The future is built through dialogue 🤝 Photos: Jacqueline Munguia, Oliver Kwembe, Leonardo Basso.

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From Sustainable Design to Regenerative Design
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From Sustainable Design to Regenerative Design

For centuries, we have designed without considering our interdependence with nature, but today it is not enough to simply reduce harm: we must design to restore. The challenge is to transform our practices to regenerate ecosystems, communities, and economies through technology that coexists in harmony with nature. From carbon-capturing architecture to urban planning that transforms cities into living ecosystems, the key lies in revaluing ancestral knowledge and fostering a regenerative mindset. 📸 Ricardo Gómez Ángel, Pim de Boer.

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Editorials

Editorial · November 2026

What Is Demanded of Us

The word resilience comes from the Latin resilire: to leap back. A resilient steel takes a blow, deforms, and recovers its shape. Applied to people and cities, the metaphor carries an uncomfortable assumption: that someone is going to keep on hitting.

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Editorial · December 2025

Four Reads to Wrap Up 2025

We close out the year by exploring four texts that deconstruct the idea of progress and propose futures rooted in the ancestral, the situated, the underground, and the visual. It is an invitation to look back, to challenge the status quo, and to explore other possible worlds through the freedom to imagine—and…

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Editorial · November 2025

Your dose of innovation from the South

This month, we arrived with hearts full and minds sharp. Sesiones Sur Global 2025 reminded us that futures are not imagined in silence or from a distance: they are built in community, through difficult questions and with a kind of hope that does not deny reality, but rather…

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Editorial · October 2025

Community well-being, research, AI

October invites us to rethink the ethics of creation and care. This issue brings together voices that challenge certainties, highlight the dangers of individualistic superficiality, and sow the seeds for new ways of imagining the future.

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Editorial · August 2025

Rights, Responsibilities, and the Future of LATAM

August calls on us to listen to tensions that remain unresolved. From AI that will determine who governs tomorrow to dilemmas born of uncertainty, this issue brings together four essays that explore how we inhabit and transform fragile systems. It’s not just about…

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Editorial · July 2025

Beyond Inclusion

July forces us to read between the lines of systems. From Latin America to global industry, reality reminds us that innovation doesn’t always stem from flawless plans, but rather from detours, instinct, and classrooms that refuse to follow someone else’s script. This issue weaves together…

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Editorial · June 2025

Decolonizing the Future

Join us on the margins, where uncomfortable yet necessary questions arise: Who defines the future? Which bodies and forms of knowledge are left out? How do we navigate complexity?

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Editorial · May 2025

Design Frameworks for the Multiverse

In the May issue of UNTOLD, we examine the myth of progress and its influence on our perception of change and development; we present indigenous design frameworks that challenge colonial notions of the future; we delve into the strategic construction of futures…

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