Working Paper: The city as mesh
How to imagine and build institutions for city governments across the world.
Publications
Explorations of insights, questions, and experiments that inspire and spark our imagination when it comes to designing institutions for the 21st century.
White Paper #004: Interchange: Design building blocks for complex science-policy challenges
This paper proposes a new institutional architecture framework — the Interchange — to address complex, evolving governance challenges like climate change, artificial intelligence, and public health crises.
White paper #003: Emergent standards: Enabling collaborations across institutions
Instead of designing top-down systems, institutions should create conditions in which small groups can build minimal, working standards that others can adopt.
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Rethinking institutions in an era of demographic transition
This report outlines approaches for rethinking institutions for an era of demographic shifts in Finland. It is the result of a partnership with the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra.
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DOGE done better? The case for progressive efficiency and a streamlined state
DOGE Done Better, a new paper written by TIAL’s Geoff Mulgan and published by Demos (UK), offers a model for redesigning government that balances efficiency with intelligence, legitimacy, and long-term purpose.
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White paper #002: A Well-Architected Framework for public procurement
This white paper proposes a Well-Architected Framework for Public Procurement, inspired by software architecture, to make procurement more adaptive, responsive, and purpose-driven.
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White paper #001: Safeguarding elections in the age of AI and synthetic content
This white paper introduces a six-step framework for establishing Electoral Integrity Institutions (EIIs)—specialised bodies designed to safeguard elections from synthetic disinformation.
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Legitimacy: Working hypotheses
What does it truly mean for an institution to be legitimate? This publication delves into legitimacy as both a practical asset and a dynamic process, offering institutional entrepreneurs the tools to understand, build, and sustain it over time.
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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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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