Working Paper: The city as mesh
How to imagine and build institutions for city governments across the world.
New approaches to anticipatory regulation: the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) in the UK and the new AI regulators
New regulatory bodies like the UK’s Regulatory Innovation Office signal a growing recognition that institutions must adapt to govern emerging technologies.
Artificial Intelligence and tackling the challenge of designing new public institutions
The challenge When new tasks come along, often new institutions have to be created too. Modern government can be thought of as an assembly of these institutions, some old like prison services and police, schools and welfare, some newer like utility regulators and digital agencies. Powerful technologies tend to require a lot of institutional innovation.
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Designing new public institutions for the UK in the 2020s and beyond
TIAL collaborated on an event looking at future institutions for the UK on Tuesday, 14th of May. The event is co-hosted by Geoff Mulgan and Nick Pearce from Bath University, and is being held at the British Academy. This is a background paper drafted by Geoff Mulgan. We will add links to other papers linked to the event in
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Designing new institutions: Ideas and tools for an emergent discipline
This paper describes how new institutions can be designed, proposing elements of a discipline that, like buildings architecture, can bring together theory, practice, interdisciplinarity and critical thought. Its premise is that the world badly needs new institutions to fill crucial governance gaps – from decarbonisation to mental health, data to AI. These gaps have grown
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