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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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Threads

Stories of the Next Economies

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project

Date

Jan 2026

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Next Economics,

Conversation Design

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X0: Extraction Zero Policy

How can a redesigned policy drive systemic change in the built environment

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project

Date

Dec 2025

Units

Material 0 Cities

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The Planetary Compendium

Case studies on planetary governance

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project

Date

Nov 2025

Units

Planetary Civics,

Civic Tech

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Many-to-Many System

Governance & Tools for Systems Change

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project

Date

Nov 2025

Units

Beyond the Rules,

Civic Tech

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Pathways to Outcomes-Based Public Realm

A collaboration with Connected Places Catapult that brought together practitioners across the public realm to prototype new innovative solutions

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project

Date

Nov 2025

Units

Nature as Infrastructure,

Civic Tech

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Portfolio Mapping Guide

A practical framework and tool for cities to map and strategise their climate transition portfolios

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project

Date

Oct 2025

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Net Zero Cities

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Governing Together

Bridging divide in everyday politics

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project

Date

Sept 2025

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Societal Decisions,

Net Zero Cities

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Tayside Bioregional Financing Facility

Partnership with Bioregioning Tayside to grow an ecosystem for bioregional financing in the bread basket of Scotland

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project

Date

Jul 2025

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Capital Systems,

Bioregional Economics

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Malmö: The Future is Here

The Future is Here is a new project within the Vinnova, ShiftSweden initiative, using foresight methods and research to develop practical toolkits for accelerating systemic shifts needed for a livable future.

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project

Date

Jun 2025

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Material 0 Cities

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Fostering a Post-growth Municipality in Girona

Long-term collaboration with Girona City Council, and the Research & Degrowth Association International

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project

Date

Apr 2025

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Net Zero Cities

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Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth

New pathways to provide affordable homes within environmental limits

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project

Date

Mar 2025

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Neighbourhood Futures

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Regenerative Contracting with Annette Dhami

Deep dive into the incredible power of contracts and contracting processes for establishing the boundaries of what is possible together

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media

Date

Feb 2025

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Beyond the Rules

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Planetary Civics Inquiry

What if governance wasn’t about borders, but about the shared currents of an entangled planet?

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project

Date

Feb 2025

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Planetary Civics,

Conversation Design

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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?

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media

Date

Feb 2025

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Regen Nutrition

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Community-Led Place Stewardship

What can community-led place stewardship offer future housing estates?

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update

Date

Jan 2025

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Neighbourhood Futures

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

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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media

Date

Oct 2024

Units

Radicle Civics

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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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project

Date

Sept 2024

Units

Material 0 Cities,

Foresight & Futuring

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Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future

Accidental Gods podcast with Georgia Cameron

Type

media

Date

Aug 2024

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Net Zero Cities

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Diseño y Diaspora

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

Type

media

Date

Aug 2024

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Nature as Infrastructure

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Bioregional Financing Facilities

Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

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project

Date

Aug 2024

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Capital Systems

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Re:Permissioning the City

Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

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project

Date

Aug 2024

Units

Societal Decisions,

Radicle Civics,

Civic Tech

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New Economic Thinking

Enabling a just transition for the built environment in Europe

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project

Date

Aug 2024

Units

Next Economics,

Material 0 Cities

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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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media

Date

Jun 2024

Units

Next Economics

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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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project

Date

Jun 2024

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Nature as Infrastructure

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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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project

Date

May 2024

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Nature as Infrastructure

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Nature Demo

Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

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project

Date

May 2024

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Nature as Infrastructure

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TreesAI Stuttgart

Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

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project

Date

Apr 2024

Units

Nature as Infrastructure,

Civic Tech

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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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project

Date

Apr 2024

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Curiosity That Matters

Boring Revolution with Indy Johar

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media

Date

Mar 2024

Units

Org Dev

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TreesAI Seoul

Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

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project

Date

Dec 2023

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Nature as Infrastructure,

Civic Tech

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TreesAI Glasgow

Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

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project

Date

Oct 2023

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Nature as Infrastructure,

Civic Tech

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North Macedonian Development Strategy Framework

Creating a Framework for Human, Machine and Ecological Transition

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project

Date

Sept 2023

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Planetary Civics

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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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project

Date

Sept 2023

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Neighbourhood Futures

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7GenCities:

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

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project

Date

Jul 2023

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7Gen Cities

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The Cornerstone Indicators

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

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project

Date

Jun 2023

Units

Next Economics,

Conversation Design

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Zero Carbon Rugeley

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

Type

project

Date

Jun 2023

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Life Pact

People-driven: Adapting Cities for Tomorrow

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project

Date

Jun 2023

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Nature as Infrastructure

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Designing Our Futures

A new European Bauhaus Economy

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project

Date

Apr 2023

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Material 0 Cities

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Retrofit Reimagined

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

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project

Date

Feb 2023

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Neighbourhood Futures

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Edinburgh Neighbourhood Transitions

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

Type

project

Date

Nov 2022

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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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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project

Date

Sept 2022

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Net Zero Cities

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Viable Cities - Swedish National Platform for Climate Neutral Cities 2030

Supporting transition working with local governments, to achieve a global transition

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project

Date

Sept 2022

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Neighbourhood Futures

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IG Infrastructure

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

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project

Date

Jun 2022

Units

Next Economics

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NetZeroCities

100 Climate-Neutral European Cities by 2030

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project

Date

Oct 2021

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Net Zero Cities

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Linen Quarter BID

Supporting a zero-carbon and circular Belfast

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project

Date

Sept 2021

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Material 0 Cities

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CivicAI

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

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project

Date

Sept 2020

Units

Civic Tech

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Smart Commons

A new model for investing in the commons

Type

project

Date

Sept 2020

Units

Capital Systems,

Neighbourhood Futures,

Civic Tech

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Sandbox Innovation for Civic Experimentation

Regulatory Innovation

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project

Date

Sept 2020

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Systems Approach to Youth Unemployment

Together with UNDP Bhutan

Type

project

Date

Sept 2020

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Beyond The Rules

Organising & Governance of Public Good Ecosystems

Type

project

Date

Sept 2020

Units

Beyond the Rules

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A Next Generation Human Platform

The Role of Governments in Building Social Crowdsourcing Platforms

Type

project

Date

May 2020

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Radical Imagination for Tomorrow

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

Type

project

Date

Apr 2020

Units

Foresight & Futuring

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CircuLaw

Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition

Type

project

Date

Apr 2020

Units

Net Zero Cities,

Civic Tech

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Civic City

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

Type

project

Date

Sept 2019

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Urban Nature-based Solutions in Scotland at Scale

Toward a regenerative natural asset economy

Type

project

Date

Aug 2019

Units

Nature as Infrastructure

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The Office of Rules and Norms

Exploring the role of art in revealing and challenging existing rules

Type

project

Date

Jun 2019

Units

Foresight & Futuring

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UNDP Albania

Applying systems thinking to environmental permitting in Albania

Type

project

Date

Apr 2019

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Civic-Indigenous 7.0

Exploring the intersection of Indigenous and civic futures

Type

project

Date

Mar 2019

Units

7Gen Cities

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Healthy, Clean Cities - Deep Demonstration

Accelerating European cities towards carbon-neutrality

Type

project

Date

Mar 2019

Units

Net Zero Cities

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DesignTech

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

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project

Date

Mar 2019

Units

Civic Tech

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Mind//Shift

Exploring new ideas and experiments that impact mental health and thriving

Type

project

Date

Feb 2019

Units

Regen Nutrition

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Legitimacities

Toward a network of city-based regulatory experimentation labs

Type

project

Date

Feb 2019

Units

Next Economics,

Neighbourhood Futures

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Longtermism

Reorienting mindsets towards long-term thinking and acting

Type

project

Date

Feb 2019

Units

Foresight & Futuring

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The Network of Regulatory Experimentation

A peer-to-peer community of regulatory experimenters

Type

project

Date

Jan 2019

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Scotland’s Lead Markets

From Grand Challenges to Prototypes

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project

Date

Jan 2019

Units

Capital Systems,

Civic Tech

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Radical Practice Studio

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

Type

project

Date

Jan 2019

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Alternative.Camden

A civic innovation district

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project

Date

Oct 2018

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Istanbul Innovation Days

#NEXTGENGOV

Type

project

Date

Sept 2018

Units

Societal Decisions,

Planetary Civics

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Civic Capital

Transforming how we generate and allocate value

Type

project

Date

Sept 2018

Units

Capital Systems

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Radical Childcare

An open civic movement for change

Type

project

Date

Sept 2017

Units

Neighbourhood Futures

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Next State (DAFZA)

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

Type

project

Date

Jun 2017

Units

Neighbourhood Futures,

Civic Tech

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North Camden Zone

Improving outcomes for children and young people in Camden

Type

project

Date

Jan 2017

Units

Neighbourhood Futures