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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Universal Basic Nutrient Income (UBNI)
What are the demand-side innovations able to drive human health and soil regeneration at scale?

Community-Led Place Stewardship
What can community-led place stewardship offer future housing estates?

The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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

Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future
Accidental Gods podcast with Georgia Cameron

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

Bioregional Financing Facilities
Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

Re:Permissioning the City
Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

New Economic Thinking
Enabling a trust transition for the built environment in Europe

Next Frontiers: Stewarding Wealth for People and Planet
Jayne Engle and Emily Harris are joining Next Frontiers.

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

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

Nature Demo
Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

TreesAI Stuttgart
Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

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

Curiosity That Matters
Boring Revolution with Indy Johar

TreesAI Seoul
Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

TreesAI Glasgow
Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

North Macedonian Development Strategy Framework
Creating a Framework for Human, Machine and Ecological Transition

Community Powered Retrofit London
Design and test new governance, participation, data and funding models for community based retrofit

7GenCities:
Fostering transformative thinking and action for future city and community building and Earth stewardship

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

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

Life Pact
People-driven: Adapting Cities for Tomorrow

Designing Our Futures
A new European Bauhaus Economy

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

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

Climate City Contracting for Humane Thriving
Initiating a discussion towards pathways to unlocking a democratically-desired climate transition

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

NetZeroCities
100 Climate-Neutral European Cities by 2030

Linen Quarter BID
Supporting a zero-carbon and circular Belfast

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

Smart Commons
A new model for investing in the commons

Sandbox Innovation for Civic Experimentation
Regulatory Innovation

Systems Approach to Youth Unemployment
Together with UNDP Bhutan

Beyond The Rules
Organising & Governance of Public Good Ecosystems

A Next Generation Human Platform
The Role of Governments in Building Social Crowdsourcing Platforms

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

CircuLaw
Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition

Viable Cities
Climate Neutral Cities 2030

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

Urban Nature-based Solutions in Scotland at Scale
Toward a regenerative natural asset economy

The Office of Rules and Norms
Exploring the role of art in revealing and challenging existing rules

UNDP Albania
Applying systems thinking to environmental permitting in Albania

Civic-Indigenous 7.0
Exploring the intersection of Indigenous and civic futures

Healthy, Clean Cities - Deep Demonstration
Accelerating European cities towards carbon-neutrality

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

Mind//Shift
Exploring new ideas and experiments that impact mental health and thriving

Legitimacities
Toward a network of city-based regulatory experimentation labs

Longtermism
Reorienting mindsets towards long-term thinking and acting

The Network of Regulatory Experimentation
A peer-to-peer community of regulatory experimenters

Scotland’s Lead Markets
From Grand Challenges to Prototypes

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

Alternative.Camden
A civic innovation district

Istanbul Innovation Days
#NEXTGENGOV

Civic Capital
Transforming how we generate and allocate value

Radical Childcare
An open civic movement for change

Next State (DAFZA)
A 21st century free zone in an age of technological revolution and climate breakdown
