Publications

Explorations of insights, questions, and experiments that inspire and spark our imagination when it comes to designing institutions for the 21st century.

How to reflect the interests of future generations in today’s decisions

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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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Designing new public institutions for the UK in the 2020s and beyond

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TIAL collaborated on an event looking at future institutions for the UK on Tuesday, 14th of May.  The event is co-hosted by Geoff Mulgan and Nick Pearce from Bath University, and is being held at the British Academy.  This is a background paper drafted by Geoff Mulgan.  We will add links to other papers linked to the event in

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Designing new institutions: Ideas and tools for an emergent discipline

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This paper describes how new institutions can be designed, proposing elements of a discipline that, like buildings architecture, can bring together theory, practice, interdisciplinarity and critical thought.   Its premise is that the world badly needs new institutions to fill crucial governance gaps – from decarbonisation to mental health, data to AI. These gaps have grown

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