Field work: Reflections on TIAL’s second year
Reflecting on TIAL’s second year through travel.
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Project update: Building institutional architecture for governing climate tipping points
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
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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The “Interchange” project: Toward an institutional architecture for representing, recognising, and responding to tipping elements
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.
Event recap: Fixing procurement for the era of AI
At TIAL’s latest event, procurement finally had its moment in the spotlight — not as bureaucracy’s dull(er) cousin, but as a secret weapon for institutional innovation.
TIAL x Sitra: Designing institutions for a new demographic reality
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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Dozens of illustration cases celebrated at Istanbul Innovation Days 2025
In preparation for Istanbul Innovation Days 2025, for which TIAL has partnered up with the UNDP and Demos Helsinki, our teams have identified hundreds of cases of institutional innovation worldwide.
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Institutional innovation and institutional design start to garner media attention
The story of institutional innovation is getting told around the world.
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Introducing “Reimagining Public Institutions”: a community for institutional architects
Reimagining Public Institutions is an online community of practice we’ve launched as a creative antidote to institutional fatalism.
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TIAL introduces a series of speculative design white papers
Speculative work helps us imagine institutions that are fit for purpose. This is why, we are introducing a series of more in-depth papers on approaches to specific and widely relevant aspects of institutional design.
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