PHGD’s mission is to enhance understanding of complex systems and to offer practical solutions to enable customers and partners to produce better and consume less.

Committing to sustainability, in its various dimensions, is one thing. Knowing how to achieve it is something else again.

PHGD offers ideas, anchored in cutting-edge science, with a particular emphasis on the social and human sciences. Making sense of how culture, environment and technology relate to one another is, ultimately, to reflect on what it is to be human in a world such as ours. That's a philosophical horizon - but it's also a very practial challenge.

That's why PHGD supports transforming practices, helping clients to assess their starting points, to define relevant responses and to explore options for change - including technological possibilities. At the core of our expertise are the production and consumption practices that environmental transformation depends on. Within the PHGD Group, Hagrath and Catharsis are developing concepts and methods for transformative practices, while TrustInside specializes in trust-assessment and trust-building tools.

And PHD provides solutions in all its action areas. For instance, for decentralized electricity production, with a special focus on reinventing small-scale wind through the Flexeole project.

On the projectspage, you can find details on what we're actually doing in all these areas.