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The ideas that spark and sustain the craft of institutional architecture.

Artificial Intelligence and tackling the challenge of designing new public institutions

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. A good example […]

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Building space for an institutional design intervention

Institutional design is a proven but less explored way to instigate and sustain long-term 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 would love to hear from your experiences, so

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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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