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Project update: Building institutional architecture for governing climate tipping points

7 November 2025 / By TIAL / Articles, News

TIAL’s “Tipping Element Interchange” project focuses on developing new institutional architectures capable of recognising and responding to nonlinear and cascading climate risks. The project has three parts: first, identifying the institutional architecture building blocks for generating knowledge and connecting it to the kinds of actions that are needed to both avoid and adapt to environmental […]

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Reimagining public institutions: reflections from Istanbul, Berlin, and Brasília

28 October 2025 / By TIAL / Articles, News

TIAL’s purpose is to highlight the role of institutions, and their underlying architecture, in creating large-scale and lasting positive change in society. Over the past months we have run a series of workshops in three very different cities — Istanbul, Berlin, and Brasília — to explore what it takes to imagine beyond the institutional architectures

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Rethinking institutions in an era of demographic transition

16 September 2025 / By TIAL / Publications, Speculative

This report outlines approaches for rethinking institutions for an era of demographic shifts in Finland. It is the result of a partnership with the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra.

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The “Interchnage” project: Toward an institutional architecture for representing, recognising, and responding to tipping elements

16 July 2025 / By TIAL / Collaborations, News

The project focuses on building the foundations for a closer connection between science and traditional ecological knowledge and political and economic decision-making as well as cultural narratives that drive action.

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DOGE done better? The case for progressive efficiency and a streamlined state

16 June 2025 / By TIAL / Publications, Speculative

DOGE Done Better, a new paper written by TIAL’s Geoff Mulgan and published by Demos (UK), offers a model for redesigning government that balances efficiency with intelligence, legitimacy, and long-term purpose.

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TIAL x Sitra: Designing institutions for a new demographic reality

5 May 2025 / By TIAL / Collaborations, News

Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and the Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL) have partnered to explore how institutional innovation can help Finland navigate the challenges of demographic transition.

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Playbook: Designing new institutions and renewing existing ones

25 March 2025 / By TIAL / Toolkits

This Playbook was developed as a collaboration between UNDP, TIAL and Demos Helsinki. It is a living resource that can help teams have a conversation about strategy and tactics for renewing existing or designing new institutions. We developed this for Istanbul Innovation Days 2025. You can find a flip-book version of it here. Why do we

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Legitimacy: Working hypotheses

28 January 2025 / By TIAL / Publications

What does it truly mean for an institution to be legitimate? This publication delves into legitimacy as both a practical asset and a dynamic process, offering institutional entrepreneurs the tools to understand, build, and sustain it over time.

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Toolkit: Legitimacy Lens – A guide for building and maintaining legitimacy of new institutions

9 January 2025 / By TIAL / Toolkits

This toolkit is a ‘lens’ through which institutional entrepreneurs can refine strategies for creating and maintaining legitimacy.

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TIAL x UNDP: A time to build – shaping the next generation of public institutions

19 December 2024 / By TIAL / Collaborations, News

In March 2025, the IID – through a partnership with Demos Helsinki & TIAL – will focus on institutional innovation as a way to address the most insurmountable problems of our societies and the many threats to security and prosperity.

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