Recent projects and news

Whether we’re focusing on streets, towns, cities or entire bioregions, we’re working to establish collective means of co-ordinating, and governing our common resources. Here you can find our latest projects, news, podcasts and articles from our team members.

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The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Les Matérialistes

A participatory futuring project to incite change and invite action towards a circular transition in the construction industry

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Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future

Accidental Gods podcast with Georgia Cameron

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Diseño y Diaspora

Talk on civic leadership in Spanish with Alicia Carvajal Rowan and Sofía Valentini

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Bioregional Financing Facilities

Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

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Re:Permissioning the City

Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

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New Economic Thinking

Enabling a trust transition for the built environment in Europe

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Next Frontiers: Stewarding Wealth for People and Planet

Jayne Engle and Emily Harris are joining Next Frontiers.

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URBREATH, Madrid

URBREATH is a Horizon Europe project focusing on boosting social interactions, inclusion, equitability and liveability in cities.

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Lawns Campaign / Platform

Building a platform to facilitate socio-ecological transitions and community-based climate action in private yards

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Nature Demo

Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

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TreesAI Stuttgart

Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

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Healthy, Clean Cities EU CINCO

Accelerating efforts to minimise embodied carbon, support circularity and increase the uptake of bio-based materials in construction

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Curiosity That Matters

Boring Revolution with Indy Johar

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TreesAI Seoul

Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

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TreesAI Glasgow

Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

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North Macedonian Development Strategy Framework

Creating a Framework for Human, Machine and Ecological Transition

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Community Powered Retrofit London

Design and test new governance, participation, data and funding models for community based retrofit

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7GenCities:

Fostering transformative thinking and action for future city and community building and Earth stewardship

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The Cornerstone Indicators

Developing a Prototype Participatory Indicator Design Process in the Swedish city of Västerås

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Zero Carbon Rugeley

Design and test new governance, participation, data and funding models for community based retrofit

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Designing Our Futures

A new European Bauhaus Economy

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Retrofit Reimagined

Design and test new governance, participation, data and funding models for community based retrofit

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Edinburgh Neighbourhood Transitions

Design and test new governance, participation, data and funding models for community based retrofit

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Climate City Contracting for Humane Thriving

Initiating a discussion towards pathways to unlocking a democratically-desired climate transition

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IG Infrastructure

New pathways for infrastructure investment in the context of achieving inclusive growth

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CivicAI

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis

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Linen Quarter BID

Supporting a zero-carbon and circular Belfast

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Life Pact

People-driven: Adapting Cities for Tomorrow

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Smart Commons

A new model for investing in the commons

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Sandbox Innovation for Civic Experimentation

Regulatory Innovation

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Systems Approach to Youth Unemployment

Together with UNDP Bhutan

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Beyond The Rules

Organising & Governance of Public Good Ecosystems

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A Next Generation Human Platform

The Role of Governments in Building Social Crowdsourcing Platforms

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Radical Imagination for Tomorrow

Seoul City’s Long-term Strategies for Future Transition Campus

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CircuLaw

Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition

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Viable Cities

Climate Neutral Cities 2030

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Civic City

Exploring future regulatory infrastructure and digital commons for 21st century cities

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Urban Nature-based Solutions in Scotland at Scale

Toward a regenerative natural asset economy

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The Office of Rules and Norms

Exploring the role of art in revealing and challenging existing rules

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UNDP Albania

Applying systems thinking to environmental permitting in Albania

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Civic-Indigenous 7.0

Exploring the intersection of Indigenous and civic futures

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Healthy, Clean Cities - Deep Demonstration

Accelerating European cities towards carbon-neutrality

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DesignTech

A collaborative research study to understand how technology can build more democratic design practice

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Mind//Shift

Exploring new ideas and experiments that impact mental health and thriving

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Legitimacities

Toward a network of city-based regulatory experimentation labs

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Longtermism

Reorienting mindsets towards long-term thinking and acting

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The Network of Regulatory Experimentation

A peer-to-peer community of regulatory experimenters

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Scotland’s Lead Markets

From Grand Challenges to Prototypes

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Radical Practice Studio

A collective call to reimagine future ways of practicing in 21st century

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Alternative.Camden

A civic innovation district

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Istanbul Innovation Days

#NEXTGENGOV

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Civic Capital

Transforming how we generate and allocate value

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Radical Childcare

An open civic movement for change

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Next State (DAFZA)

A 21st century free zone in an age of technological revolution and climate breakdown

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North Camden Zone

Improving outcomes for children and young people in Camden