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The Institutional Architecture Lab

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Building space for an institutional design intervention

Institutional design offers untapped potential to drive and sustain meaningful social change. Based on a conversation between the TIAL founders, which you can find here, these are the experiences they’ve had in building new institutions: the peaks, the pits, and the lessons. We hope that these steps contribute to building a field for institutional design

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How to reflect the interests of future generations in today’s decisions

Around the world, there is growing interest in how governments and democracies can better reflect the interests of future generations in today’s decisions. The obvious prompt is concern that today’s citizens are leaving a legacy of climate disaster and debt. But how to make this real? What lessons can be learned from recent experiments, like

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Part 1: What is institutional architecture anyway?

Featured image: Maarten Deckers TIAL Co-founders Sir Geoff Mulgan, Jessica Seddon, and Juha Leppänen sat down together recently for a conversation led by Jessica on Institutional Architecture — what it is, how it works, and why it’s important to build a thriving, learning, field of practice around upgrading and designing new institutions.   The following transcript

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