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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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.
Lawns Campaign / Platform
Building a platform to facilitate socio-ecological transitions and community-based climate action in private yards
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
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
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
CivicAI
Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis
Linen Quarter BID
Supporting a zero-carbon and circular Belfast
Life Pact
People-driven: Adapting Cities for Tomorrow
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
Trees as Infrastructure
A platform to value and invest in nature beyond carbon
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
