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Project update: Building institutional architecture for governing climate tipping points

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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

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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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Artificial Intelligence and tackling the challenge of designing new public institutions

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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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Building space for an institutional design intervention

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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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Part 1: What is institutional architecture anyway?

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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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