Toolkit: Legitimacy Lens – A guide for building and maintaining legitimacy of new institutions
This toolkit is a ‘lens’ through which institutional entrepreneurs can refine strategies for creating and maintaining legitimacy.
TIAL x UNDP: A time to build – shaping the next generation of public institutions
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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Institutional architecture and future global governance
This short paper summarises ways to think about the design of new institutions for global and transnational governance over the next decade, drawing on the work of TIAL.
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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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The practice of Institutional Architecture
It’s very easy to make sweeping generalizations about institutions, but these are very hard to connect back to specific, tangible – perhaps actionable – guidance on designing or retrofitting effective, resilient, institutions for particular contexts and problems. What we’re trying to do at TIAL is to fill in the middle space between the abstract and
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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Part 2: Why build an Institutional Architecture Field?
Featured image: Miquel Parera This is Part 2 of a discussion between TIAL Co-founders Sir Geoff Mulgan, Jessica Seddon, and Juha Leppänen, who sat down together recently to discuss Institutional Architecture — what it is, how it works, and why it’s essential to build a thriving, learning, field of practice around upgrading and designing new
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A guide to designing new institutions
This toolkit offers a framework for thinking about the design of new organizations — whether at the level of a region or city, a nation, or at a transnational level. We welcome comments, critiques and additions. We have created this guide as part of TIAL’s broader program of work to help with the design of
